ranger

«ranger» in Mova's school dictionary: a person whose job is to look after a park, forest or… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (ranger, rangers)

meaning for a pupil

1) A ranger is a person whose job is to look after a park, forest or wild area, protect its animals and plants, and help and guide visitors. tree →

2) In some armies, a ranger is a specially trained soldier. tree →

3) In stories, a ranger is someone who wanders and guards wild lands. tree →

sense in the lessons

Everyday life and safety: in national parks (USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, UK) rangers give talks, mark trails, warn about danger such as bears, fires or floods, and rescue lost walkers — if you are lost or hurt in a park, find a ranger. In science, rangers count animals and stop poachers. Phrases: park ranger, forest ranger, ranger station, junior ranger.

examples

• The park ranger showed us how to tell a bear track from a dog track. tree →
• Ask a ranger before you light a campfire. tree →
• The ranger station is at the start of the trail. tree →
• Rangers counted the koalas in the forest. tree →
• I earned a Junior Ranger badge at Yellowstone. tree →
• A ranger closed the path because of the flood. tree →
• In the story, the ranger guarded the forest from the wolves. tree →

note

Countable: a ranger, rangers. Rangers are helpers you can trust in parks, like police officers in a town; they usually wear a uniform and a badge. Do not confuse with «range» (a row of mountains, or a set of numbers from smallest to largest).

In the corpora

• Sumatran elephants are the smallest Asian elephants, and some trained elephants help rangers patrol the forest and lead wild elephants away from farms.
• Every kakapo has a name and is watched by rangers, and there are now about 250.

Trees and pragmatics

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