Overview of verb range

The verb range has 8 senses

• range, run -- (change or be different within limits; "Estimates for the losses in the earthquake range as high as $2 billion"; "Interest rates run from 5 to 10 percent"; "The instruments ranged from tuba to cymbals"; "My students range from very bright to dull")


• roll, wander, swan, stray, tramp, roam, cast, ramble, rove, range, drift, vagabond -- (move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment; "The gypsies roamed the woods"; "roving vagabonds"; "the wandering Jew"; "The cattle roam across the prairie"; "the laborers drift from one town to the next"; "They rolled from town to town")


• range -- (have a range; be capable of projecting over a certain distance, as of a gun; "This gun ranges over two miles")


• range, straddle -- (range or extend over; occupy a certain area; "The plants straddle the entire state")


• range, array, lay out, set out -- (lay out orderly or logically in a line or as if in a line; "lay out the clothes"; "lay out the arguments")


• crop, browse, graze, range, pasture -- (feed as in a meadow or pasture; "the herd was grazing")


• range -- (let eat; "range the animals in the prairie")


• rate, rank, range, order, grade, place -- (assign a rank or rating to; "how would you rank these students?"; "The restaurant is rated highly in the food guide")

Overview of adj ranging

The adj ranging has 1 sense

• ranging -- (wandering freely; "at night in bed...his slowly ranging thoughts...encountered her")