To make a row or rows of; place in a line or lines; hence, to fix or set in any definite order; dispose with regularity; array: arrange.To rank or class; place or reckon as being of or belonging to some class, category, party, etc.; fix the relative place or standing of; classify; collocate.To rank or reckon; consider; count.To engage; occupy.To pass over or through the line, course, or extent of; go along or about, especially for some definite purpose; rove over or along: as, to range the forest for game or for poachers; to range a river or the coast in a boat.To sift; pass through a range or bolting-sieve.To constitute or be parallel to a line or row; have linear course or direction; be in or form a line: as, a boundary ranging east and west; houses ranging evenly with the street.To be on a level; agree in class or position; have equal rank or place; rank correspondingly.To go in a line or course; hence, to rove freely; pass from point to point; make a course or tour; roam; wander.To move in a definite manner, as for starting game; beat about; of dogs, to run within the proper range.To have course or direction; extend in movement or location; pass; vary; stretch; spread: as, prices range between wide limits; the plant ranges from Canada to Mexico.In gunnery, to have range: said of a missile, and denoting length of range and also direction: as, that shot ranged too far, or too much to the right: rarely, of the gun itself.Synonyms Roam, Rove, etc. See ramble, v.n. A line or row (usually straight or nearly straight); a linear series; a regular sequence; a rank; a chain: used especially of large objects permanently fixed or lying in direct succession to one another, as mountains, trees, buildings, columns, etc.n. Specifically— A line or chain of mountains; a Cordillera: as, to skirt the range; to cross the ranges.n. In United States surveys of public land, one of a series of divisions numbered east or west from the prime meridian of the survey, consisting of townships which are numbered north or south in every division from a base-line. See township.n. In geometry, a series of points lying in one straight line.n. A rank, class, or order; a series of beings or things belonging to the same grade or having like characteristics.n. The extent of any aggregate, congeries, or complex, material or immaterial; array of things or sequences of a specific kind; scope; compass: as, the range of industries in a country; the whole range of events or of history; the range of prices or of operations; the range of one's thoughts or learning.n. Extent of operating force or activity; scope or compass of efficient action; space or distance over or through which energy can be exerted; limit of effect or of capability; extent of reach: as, the range of a gun or a shot; the range of a thermometer or a barometer (the extent of its variation in any period, or of its capacity for marking degrees of change); the range of a singer or of a musical instrument.n. Unobstructed distance or interval from one point or object to another; length of course for free direct ranging through the air, as of a missile or of sight; a right line of aim or of observation, absolute or relative: as, the range is too great for effective firing; the range of vision.n. The act of ranging; a wandering or roving; movement from point to point in space.n. An area or course of ranging, either in space or in time; an expanse for movement or existence; the region, sphere, or space over which any being or thing ranges or is distributed: as, the range of an animal or a plant within geographical limits or during geological time, or of a marine animal in depth; the range of Gothic architecture; the range of a man's influence.n. Specifically— A tract or district of land within which domestic animals in large numbers range for subsistence; an extensive grazing-ground: used on the great plains of the United States for a tract commonly of many square miles, occupied by one or by different proprietors, and distinctively called a cattle-, stock-, or sheep-range. The animals on a range are usually left to take care of themselves during the whole year without shelter, excepting when periodically gathered in a “round-up” for counting and selection, and for branding when the herds of several proprietors run together. In severe winters many are lost by such exposure.n. A course for shooting at marks or targets; a space of ground appropriated or laid out for practice in the use of firearms: distinctively called a rifle-range or shooting-range.n. A fire-grate.n. A cooking-stove built into a fireplace, or sometimes portable but of a similar shape, having a row or rows of openings on the top for carrying on several operations at once.n. A step of a ladder; a round; a rung.n. Nautical: A large cleat with two arms or branches, bolted in the waist of ships to belay the tacks and sheets to.n. A certain quantity of cable hauled up on deck from the chain-locker, of a length slightly greater than the depth of water, in order that the anchor, when let go, may reach the bottom without being checked.n. In shoemaking, a strip cut from a butt or side of sole-leather.n. A bolting-sieve for meal.n. Synonyms Line, tier, file.n. Sweep, reach.n. In heraldry, arranged in order: said of small bearings set in a row fessewise, or the like.Nautical, to sail parallel to: as, to range the coast.To find the range; determine the range.