range

«range» in Mova's school dictionary: the difference between the smallest and the biggest of a… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

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 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

• 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

• 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.
• Asteroids are rocky or metallic leftovers from the birth of the Solar System, ranging from pebbles to hundreds of kilometres across.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «range» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.