Range vs. Scale
Rangenoun
A line or series of mountains, buildings, etc.
Rangenoun
A fireplace; a fire or other cooking apparatus; now specifically, a large cooking stove with many hotplates.
Rangenoun
Selection, array.
Rangenoun
An area for practicing shooting at targets.
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An area for military training or equipment testing.
Rangenoun
The distance from a person or sensor to an object, target, emanation, or event.
Rangenoun
Maximum distance of capability (of a weapon, radio, detector, fuel supply, etc.).
Rangenoun
An area of open, often unfenced, grazing land.
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Extent or space taken in by anything excursive; compass or extent of excursion; reach; scope.
Rangenoun
(mathematics) The set of values (points) which a function can obtain.
Rangenoun
(statistics) The length of the smallest interval which contains all the data in a sample; the difference between the largest and smallest observations in the sample.
Rangenoun
The defensive area that a player can cover.
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(music) The scale of all the tones a voice or an instrument can produce.
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(ecology) The geographical area or zone where a species is normally naturally found.
Rangenoun
(programming) A sequential list of values specified by an iterator.
Rangenoun
An aggregate of individuals in one rank or degree; an order; a class.
Rangenoun
(obsolete) The step of a ladder; a rung.
Rangenoun
A bolting sieve to sift meal.
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A wandering or roving; a going to and fro; an excursion; a ramble; an expedition.
Rangenoun
In the public land system, a row or line of townships lying between two succession meridian lines six miles apart.
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The scope of something, the extent which something covers or includes.
Rangenoun
The variety of roles that an actor can play in a satisfactory way.
Rangeverb
(intransitive) To travel over (an area, etc); to roam, wander.
Rangeverb
(transitive) To rove over or through.
Rangeverb
To exercise the power of something over something else; to cause to submit to, over.
Rangeverb
(transitive) To bring (something) into a specified position or relationship (especially, of opposition) with something else.
Rangeverb
}} Of a variable, to be able to take any of the values in a specified range.
Rangeverb
(transitive) To classify.
Rangeverb
(intransitive) To form a line or a row.
Rangeverb
(intransitive) To be placed in order; to be ranked; to admit of arrangement or classification; to rank.
Rangeverb
(transitive) To set in a row, or in rows; to place in a regular line or lines, or in ranks; to dispose in the proper order.
Rangeverb
(transitive) To place among others in a line, row, or order, as in the ranks of an army; usually, reflexively and figuratively, to espouse a cause, to join a party, etc.
Rangeverb
(biology) To be native to, or live in, a certain district or region.
Rangeverb
To separate into parts; to sift.
Rangeverb
To sail or pass in a direction parallel to or near.
Rangeverb
(baseball) Of a player, to travel a significant distance for a defensive play.
Rangeverb
To set in a row, or in rows; to place in a regular line or lines, or in ranks; to dispose in the proper order; to rank; as, to range soldiers in line.
Rangeverb
To place (as a single individual) among others in a line, row, or order, as in the ranks of an army; - usually, reflexively and figuratively, (in the sense) to espouse a cause, to join a party, etc.
Rangeverb
To separate into parts; to sift.
Rangeverb
To dispose in a classified or in systematic order; to arrange regularly; as, to range plants and animals in genera and species.
Rangeverb
To rove over or through; as, to range the fields.
Rangeverb
To sail or pass in a direction parallel to or near; as, to range the coast.
Rangeverb
To be native to, or to live in; to frequent.
Rangeverb
To rove at large; to wander without restraint or direction; to roam.
Rangeverb
To have range; to change or differ within limits; to be capable of projecting, or to admit of being projected, especially as to horizontal distance; as, the temperature ranged through seventy degrees Fahrenheit; the gun ranges three miles; the shot ranged four miles.
Rangeverb
To be placed in order; to be ranked; to admit of arrangement or classification; to rank.
Rangeverb
To have a certain direction; to correspond in direction; to be or keep in a corresponding line; to trend or run; - often followed by with; as, the front of a house ranges with the street; to range along the coast.
Rangeverb
To be native to, or live in, a certain district or region; as, the peba ranges from Texas to Paraguay.
Rangenoun
A series of things in a line; a row; a rank; as, a range of buildings; a range of mountains.
Rangenoun
An aggregate of individuals in one rank or degree; an order; a class.
Rangenoun
The step of a ladder; a rung.
Rangenoun
A kitchen grate.
Rangenoun
An extended cooking apparatus of cast iron, set in brickwork, and affording conveniences for various ways of cooking; also, a kind of cooking stove.
Rangenoun
A bolting sieve to sift meal.
Rangenoun
A wandering or roving; a going to and fro; an excursion; a ramble; an expedition.
Rangenoun
That which may be ranged over; place or room for excursion; especially, a region of country in which cattle or sheep may wander and pasture.
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Extent or space taken in by anything excursive; compass or extent of excursion; reach; scope; discursive power; as, the range of one's voice, or authority.
Rangenoun
The region within which a plant or animal naturally lives.
Rangenoun
The horizontal distance to which a shot or other projectile is carried.
Rangenoun
In the public land system of the United States, a row or line of townships lying between two successive meridian lines six miles apart.
Rangenoun
See Range of cable, below.
Rangenoun
an area in which something acts or operates or has power or control:
Rangenoun
the limits within which something can be effective;
Rangenoun
a large tract of grassy open land on which livestock can graze;
Rangenoun
a series of hills or mountains;
Rangenoun
a place for shooting (firing or driving) projectiles of various kinds;
Rangenoun
the limits of the values a function can take;
Rangenoun
a variety of different things or activities;
Rangenoun
the limit of capability;
Rangenoun
a kitchen appliance used for cooking food;
Rangeverb
change or be different within limits;
Rangeverb
move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment;
Rangeverb
have a range; be capable of projecting over a certain distance, as of a gun;
Rangeverb
range or extend over; occupy a certain area;
Rangeverb
lay out in a line
Rangeverb
feed as in a meadow or pasture;
Rangeverb
let eat;
Rangeverb
assign a rank or rating to;
Rangenoun
the area of variation between upper and lower limits on a particular scale
Rangenoun
the scope of a person's knowledge or abilities
Rangenoun
the compass of a person's voice or a musical instrument
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the period of time covered by something such as a forecast.
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the area covered by or included in something
Rangenoun
the set of values that a given function can take as its argument varies.
Rangenoun
a set of different things of the same general type
Rangenoun
the distance within which a person can see or hear
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the maximum distance to which a gun will shoot or over which a missile will travel
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the maximum distance at which a radio transmission can be effectively received
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the distance that can be covered by a vehicle or aircraft without refuelling
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the distance between a camera and the subject to be photographed
Rangenoun
a line or series of mountains or hills
Rangenoun
mountainous or hilly country
Rangenoun
a large area of open land for grazing or hunting
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an area of land or sea used as a testing ground for military equipment
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an open or enclosed area with targets for shooting practice
Rangenoun
the area over which a plant or animal is distributed
Rangenoun
a large cooking stove with burners or hotplates and one or more ovens, all of which are kept continually hot
Rangenoun
an electric or gas cooker.
Rangenoun
a row of buildings
Rangenoun
a continuous stretch of a building.
Rangenoun
the direction or position in which something lies
Rangeverb
vary or extend between specified limits
Rangeverb
place or arrange in a row or rows or in a specified manner
Rangeverb
run or extend in a line in a particular direction
Rangeverb
(with reference to type) align or be aligned, especially at the ends of successive lines.
Rangeverb
place oneself or be placed in opposition to (a person or group)
Rangeverb
(of a person or animal) travel or wander over a wide area
Rangeverb
(of a person's eyes) pass from one person or thing to another
Rangeverb
(of something written or spoken) cover a wide number of different topics
Rangeverb
obtain the range of a target by adjustment after firing past it or short of it, or by the use of radar or laser equipment
Rangeverb
(of a projectile) cover a specified distance.
Rangeverb
(of a gun) send a projectile over a specified distance.
Rangeadjective
(of a person or their lifestyle) orderly; settled
Scalenoun
(obsolete) A ladder; a series of steps; a means of ascending.
Scalenoun
An ordered, usually numerical sequence used for measurement, means of assigning a magnitude.
Scalenoun
Size; scope.
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The ratio of depicted distance to actual distance.
Scalenoun
A line or bar associated with a drawing, used to indicate measurement when the image has been magnified or reduced
Scalenoun
(music) A series of notes spanning an octave, tritave, or pseudo-octave, used to make melodies.
Scalenoun
A mathematical base for a numeral system; radix.
Scalenoun
Gradation; succession of ascending and descending steps and degrees; progressive series; scheme of comparative rank or order.
Scalenoun
A standard amount of money to be received by a performer or writer, negotiated by a union.
Scalenoun
Part of an overlapping arrangement of many small, flat and hard pieces of keratin covering the skin of an animal, particularly a fish or reptile.
Scalenoun
A small piece of pigmented chitin, many of which coat the wings of a butterfly or moth to give them their color.
Scalenoun
A flake of skin of an animal afflicted with dermatitis.
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Part of an overlapping arrangement of many small, flat and hard protective layers forming a pinecone that flare when mature to release pine nut seeds.
Scalenoun
The flaky material sloughed off heated metal.
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Scale mail (as opposed to chain mail).
Scalenoun
Limescale.
Scalenoun
A scale insect.
Scalenoun
The thin metallic side plate of the handle of a pocketknife.
Scalenoun
A device to measure mass or weight.
Scalenoun
Either of the pans, trays, or dishes of a balance or scales.
Scaleverb
(transitive) To change the size of something whilst maintaining proportion; especially to change a process in order to produce much larger amounts of the final product.
Scaleverb
(transitive) To climb to the top of.
Scaleverb
To tolerate significant increases in throughput or other potentially limiting factors.
Scaleverb
(transitive) To weigh, measure or grade according to a scale or system.
Scaleverb
(transitive) To remove the scales of.
Scaleverb
(intransitive) To become scaly; to produce or develop scales.
Scaleverb
(transitive) To strip or clear of scale; to descale.
Scaleverb
(transitive) To take off in thin layers or scales, as tartar from the teeth; to pare off, as a surface.
Scaleverb
(intransitive) To separate and come off in thin layers or laminae.
Scaleverb
To scatter; to spread.
Scaleverb
(transitive) To clean, as the inside of a cannon, by the explosion of a small quantity of powder.
Scalenoun
The dish of a balance; hence, the balance itself; an instrument or machine for weighing; as, to turn the scale; - chiefly used in the plural when applied to the whole instrument or apparatus for weighing. Also used figuratively.
Scalenoun
The sign or constellation Libra.
Scalenoun
One of the small, thin, membranous, bony or horny pieces which form the covering of many fishes and reptiles, and some mammals, belonging to the dermal part of the skeleton, or dermoskeleton. See Cycloid, Ctenoid, and Ganoid.
Scalenoun
Hence, any layer or leaf of metal or other material, resembling in size and thinness the scale of a fish; as, a scale of iron, of bone, etc.
Scalenoun
One of the small scalelike structures covering parts of some invertebrates, as those on the wings of Lepidoptera and on the body of Thysanura; the elytra of certain annelids. See Lepidoptera.
Scalenoun
A scale insect. (See below.
Scalenoun
A small appendage like a rudimentary leaf, resembling the scales of a fish in form, and often in arrangement; as, the scale of a bud, of a pine cone, and the like. The name is also given to the chaff on the stems of ferns.
Scalenoun
The thin metallic side plate of the handle of a pocketknife. See Illust. of Pocketknife.
Scalenoun
An incrustation deposit on the inside of a vessel in which water is heated, as a steam boiler.
Scalenoun
The thin oxide which forms on the surface of iron forgings. It consists essentially of the magnetic oxide, Fe3O4. Also, a similar coating upon other metals.
Scalenoun
A ladder; a series of steps; a means of ascending.
Scalenoun
Hence, anything graduated, especially when employed as a measure or rule, or marked by lines at regular intervals.
Scalenoun
Gradation; succession of ascending and descending steps and degrees; progressive series; scheme of comparative rank or order; as, a scale of being.
Scalenoun
Relative dimensions, without difference in proportion of parts; size or degree of the parts or components in any complex thing, compared with other like things; especially, the relative proportion of the linear dimensions of the parts of a drawing, map, model, etc., to the dimensions of the corresponding parts of the object that is represented; as, a map on a scale of an inch to a mile.
Scaleverb
To weigh or measure according to a scale; to measure; also, to grade or vary according to a scale or system.
Scaleverb
To strip or clear of scale or scales; as, to scale a fish; to scale the inside of a boiler.
Scaleverb
To take off in thin layers or scales, as tartar from the teeth; to pare off, as a surface.
Scaleverb
To scatter; to spread.
Scaleverb
To clean, as the inside of a cannon, by the explosion of a small quantity of powder.
Scaleverb
To separate and come off in thin layers or laminæ; as, some sandstone scales by exposure.
Scaleverb
To separate; to scatter.
Scaleverb
To climb by a ladder, or as if by a ladder; to ascend by steps or by climbing; to clamber up; as, to scale the wall of a fort.
Scaleverb
To lead up by steps; to ascend.
Scalenoun
an ordered reference standard;
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relative magnitude;
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the ratio between the size of something and a representation of it;
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an indicator having a graduated sequence of marks
Scalenoun
a specialized leaf or bract that protects a bud or catkin
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a thin flake of dead epidermis shed from the surface of the skin
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(music) a series of notes differing in pitch according to a specific scheme (usually within an octave)
Scalenoun
a measuring instrument for weighing; shows amount of mass
Scalenoun
a metal sheathing of uniform thickness (such as the shield attached to an artillery piece to protect the gunners)
Scalenoun
a flattened rigid plate forming part of the body covering of many animals
Scaleverb
measure by or as if by a scale;
Scaleverb
pattern, make, regulate, set, measure, or estimate according to some rate or standard
Scaleverb
take by attacking with scaling ladders;
Scaleverb
reach the highest point of;
Scaleverb
climb up by means of a ladder
Scaleverb
remove the scales from;
Scaleverb
measure with or as if with scales;
Scaleverb
size or measure according to a scale;
