All range synonyms
range
R r noun range
- fairground β Often, fairgrounds. a place where fairs, horse races, etc., are held; in the U.S. usually an area set aside by a city, county, or state for an annual fair and often containing exhibition buildings.
- disparateness β The degree to which a thing is disparate.
- class β A class is a group of pupils or students who are taught together.
- highlands β a region in N Scotland, including a number of the Inner Hebrides. 9710 sq. mi. (25,148 sq. km).
- length β the longest extent of anything as measured from end to end: the length of a river.
- longitude β Geography. angular distance east or west on the earth's surface, measured by the angle contained between the meridian of a particular place and some prime meridian, as that of Greenwich, England, and expressed either in degrees or by some corresponding difference in time.
- mead β George Herbert, 1863β1931, U.S. philosopher and author.
- capacity β The capacity of a container is its volume, or the amount of liquid it can hold, measured in units such as litres or gallons.
- grasp β to seize and hold by or as if by clasping with the fingers or arms.
- hill β the small hill in Washington, D.C., on which the Capitol stands.
- area β An area is a particular part of a town, a country, a region, or the world.
- diorama β a scene, often in miniature, reproduced in three dimensions by placing objects, figures, etc., in front of a painted background.
- lea β Homer, 1876β1912, U.S. soldier and author: adviser 1911β12 to Sun Yat-sen in China.
- byway β A byway is a small road which is not used by many cars or people.
- earshot β the range or distance within which a sound, voice, etc., can be heard.
- oven β a chamber or compartment, as in a stove, for baking, roasting, heating, drying, etc.
- year β a period of 365 or 366 days, in the Gregorian calendar, divided into 12 calendar months, now reckoned as beginning Jan. 1 and ending Dec. 31 (calendar year or civil year) Compare common year, leap year.
- biosphere β The biosphere is the part of the earth's surface and atmosphere where there are living things.
- gamut β the entire scale or range: the gamut of dramatic emotion from grief to joy.
- wherever β where? (used emphatically): Wherever did you find that?
- hillside β a township in NE New Jersey.
- home ground β an area, locality, or subject with which one is intimately familiar: When you see those familiar mountains appear on the horizon, you'll know you are back on home ground. Baseball and football are home ground for this sports-loving community.
- multeity β (rare) manifoldness; multiplicity; the quality of being many.
- hometown β the town or city in which a person lives or was born, or from which a person comes.
- meads β George Herbert, 1863β1931, U.S. philosopher and author.
- crag β A crag is a steep rocky cliff or part of a mountain.
- mileage β the aggregate number of miles traveled over in a given time.
- fireside β Also called hearthside. the space about a fire or hearth.
- extent β The area covered by something.
- circumnavigation β to sail or fly around; make the circuit of by navigation: to circumnavigate the earth.
- wideness β The state or quality of being wide.
verb range
- inflected β to modulate (the voice).
- divaricate β to spread apart; branch; diverge.
- zigzagged β a line, course, or progression characterized by sharp turns first to one side and then to the other.
- circuiting β Present participle of circuit.
- line β a thickness of glue, as between two veneers in a sheet of plywood.
- ford β Elizabeth Bloomer ("Betty") 1918β2011, U.S. First Lady 1974β77 (wife of Gerald R. Ford).
- organize β to form as or into a whole consisting of interdependent or coordinated parts, especially for united action: to organize a committee.
- cataloguing β a list or record, as of items for sale or courses at a university, systematically arranged and often including descriptive material: a stamp catalog.
- go astray β person: deviate from correct or good way
- co-ordinate β If you co-ordinate an activity, you organize the various people and things involved in it.
- gallivant β to wander about, seeking pleasure or diversion; gad.
- bummed β depressed, upset, distressed, annoyed, etc.
- aberrate β to deviate from what is normal or correct
- forded β a place where a river or other body of water is shallow enough to be crossed by wading.
- cover β If you cover something, you place something else over it in order to protect it, hide it, or close it.
- hoof it β the horny covering protecting the ends of the digits or encasing the foot in certain animals, as the ox and horse.
- yoyo β a spoollike toy consisting of two thick wooden, plastic, or metal disks connected by a dowel pin in the center to which a string is attached, one end being looped around the player's finger so that the toy can be spun out and reeled in by wrist motion.
- furrowed β a narrow groove made in the ground, especially by a plow.
- formalized β Simple past tense and past participle of formalize.