range
part of speech
noun (range, ranges); verb (range, ranges, ranged, ranging)
meaning for a pupil
1) In maths, the range is the difference between the smallest and the biggest of a set of numbers. tree →
2) A range is a set of different things of one kind: «a range of colours». tree →
3) A range of hills or mountains is a row of them. tree →
4) Range is how far something can reach: «out of range». tree →
5) To range from … to … is to go between two limits: «ages range from 6 to 10». tree →
6) A range is a cooker (stove). tree →
7) To range over a place means to roam about it freely, without a fixed route. tree →
sense in the lessons
In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: In Job, the range of the mountains is the wild ox's pasture, a picture of God's care for wild creatures. In Leviticus, the clay range shows how strongly uncleanness spreads to clay objects, which must be broken. Interpretation: The law shows how strongly uncleanness can spread to clay objects, which cannot be made clean again and must be broken. The reading from Job is taken as a sign that God provides for every creature. In the primary lessons: in data: biggest minus smallest; in stories, the numbers from one value to another («ages range from 6 to 11»); in geography: mountain ranges like the Rockies; in science: the range of a sound or a phone signal, the home range of an animal; phrases: «in range», «out of range», «a wide range of»
examples
- And every thing whereupon any part of their carcass falleth shall be unclean; whether oven, or range for pots, it shall be broken in pieces; they are unclean, and shall be unclean unto you. (Torah LEV.11.35, JPS 1917) tree →
- Some of them believe it to be a production of the first or the second century R. 0. ; others place it in the Geonic period, ranging from the seventh to the ninth centuries of the Christian Era. (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) tree →
- The range of the mountains is his pasture, and he searcheth after every green thing. (Writings JOB.39.8, JPS 1917) tree →
- Find the range of 3, 8, 5 and 12. tree →
- The ages range from 6 to 11 years. tree →
- Prices range from 2 to 9 dollars. tree →
- The temperatures had a range of 7 degrees. tree →
- The Rocky Mountains are a long mountain range. tree →
- The shop sells a wide range of toys. tree →
- My phone is out of range here. tree →
- The wolves roam over a large range. tree →
- Grandma cooks on an old range. tree →
- Wild and shy and monstrous creatures ranged in her plains and forests. tree →
note
Range in data = highest − lowest (12 − 3 = 9). Trap: «from 6 to 11» lists 6 whole numbers (6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11), but the range is 5. The range is one number, not two.
In the corpora
- The range of the mountains is his pasture, and he searcheth after every green thing.
- Five lines give a good range of notes; for notes above or below the staff, short extra lines are added.
- Free-range hens can go outside, caged hens live inside buildings, and many countries have banned the smallest cages.
- Writing is judged on things like paragraphs, cohesion, punctuation, spelling and a range of sentence types.
- Real numbers are only estimates, so historians give ranges, not exact counts like a game screen.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «range» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.