Range vs Change - What's the difference?
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A line or series of mountains, buildings, etc.
A fireplace; a fire or other cooking apparatus; now specifically, a large cooking stove with many hotplates.
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , II.vii:
* L'Estrange
Selection, array.
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, title= An area for practicing shooting at targets.
An area for military training or equipment testing.
The distance from a person or sensor to an object, target, emanation, or event.
Maximum distance of capability (of a weapon, radio, detector, fuel supply, etc.).
An area of open, often unfenced, grazing land.
Extent or space taken in by anything excursive; compass or extent of excursion; reach; scope.
* (Alexander Pope)
* Bishop Fell
* Addison
(mathematics) The set of values (points) which a function can obtain.
(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.
(sports, baseball) The defensive area that a player can cover.
(music) The scale of all the tones a voice or an instrument can produce.
(ecology) The geographical area or zone where a species is normally naturally found.
(programming) A sequential list of iterators that are specified by a beginning and ending iterator.
An aggregate of individuals in one rank or degree; an order; a class.
* Sir M. Hale
(obsolete) The step of a ladder; a rung.
(obsolete, UK, dialect) A bolting sieve to sift meal.
A wandering or roving; a going to and fro; an excursion; a ramble; an expedition.
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(US, historical) In the public land system, a row or line of townships lying between two succession meridian lines six miles apart.
The scope of something, the extent which something covers or includes.
To travel (over) (an area, etc); to roam, wander.
To rove over or through.
* John Gay
(obsolete) To exercise the power of something over something else; to cause to submit (to), (over).
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To bring (something) into a specified position or relationship (especially, of opposition) with something else.
* 1851 , (Herman Melville), (Moby Dick) ,
* 1910 , (Saki), ‘The Bag’, Reginald in Russia :
(mathematics, computing''; ''followed by over ) Of a variable, to be able to take any of the values in a specified range.
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To form a line or a row.
* Dryden
* 1873 , ,
To be placed in order; to be ranked; to admit of arrangement or classification; to rank.
* Shakespeare
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.
* Bible, 2 Macc. xii. 20
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.
* Burke
(biology) To be native to, or live in, a certain district or region.
To separate into parts; to sift.
To sail or pass in a direction parallel to or near.
To become something different.
(ergative) To make something into something different.
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To replace one's clothing.
To transfer to another vehicle (train, bus, etc.)
(archaic) To exchange.
* 1610 , , by (William Shakespeare), act 1 scene 2
* 1662 , Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Dialogue 2):
To change hand while riding (a horse).
(countable) The process of becoming different.
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(uncountable) Small denominations of money given in exchange for a larger denomination.
(countable) A replacement, e.g. a change of clothes
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(uncountable) Money given back when a customer hands over more than the exact price of an item.
(countable) A transfer between vehicles.
(baseball) A change-up pitch.
(lb) Any order in which a number of bells are struck, other than that of the diatonic scale.
* Holder
A place where merchants and others meet to transact business; an exchange.
A public house; an alehouse.
* Burt
As nouns the difference between range and change
is that range is homework while change is (lb) change.range
English
(wikipedia range)Noun
(en noun)- Therein an hundred raunges weren pight, / And hundred fornaces all burning bright;
- He was bid at his first coming to take off the range , and let down the cinders.
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Where Dr Pangloss meets Machiavelli, passage=Hidden behind thickets of acronyms and gorse bushes of detail, a new great game is under way across the globe. Some call it geoeconomics, but it's geopolitics too. The current power play consists of an extraordinary range of countries simultaneously sitting down to negotiate big free trade and investment agreements.}}
- Far as creation's ample range extends.
- The range and compass of Hammond's knowledge filled the whole circle of the arts.
- A man has not enough range of thought.
- The next range of beings above him are the immaterial intelligences.
- (Clarendon)
- He may take a range all the world over.
Synonyms
* (area for military training) base, training area, training ground * (distance to an object) distance, radius * compassAntonyms
* (values a function can obtain) domainHolonyms
* (values a function can obtain) codomainDerived terms
* (area for practicing shooting) archery range * (area for practicing shooting) firing range * (area for practicing shooting) indoor range * (area for practicing shooting) shooting range * (area for practicing shooting) target range * (area for military training) air weapons range * (area for military training) artillery range * (area for military training) grenade range * (area for military training) live-fire range * (area for military training) missile range * (area for military training) rocket range * (area for military training) tank range * (maximum range) effective range * (maximum range) maximum rangeVerb
- to range the fields
- Teach him to range the ditch, and force the brake.
- The soule is variable in all manner of formes, and rangeth to her selfe, and to her estate, whatsoever it be, the senses of the body, and all other accidents.
- At last we gained such an offing, that the two pilots were needed no longer. The stout sail-boat that had accompanied us began ranging alongside.
- In ranging herself as a partisan on the side of Major Pallaby Mrs. Hoopington had been largely influenced by the fact that she had made up her mind to marry him at an early date.
Why Does Nature Form Exoplanets Easily?, volume=101, issue=3, page=184, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=In the past two years, NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope has located nearly 3,000 exoplanet candidates ranging' from sub-Earth-sized minions to gas giants that dwarf our own Jupiter. Their densities ' range from that of styrofoam to iron.}}
- to range plants and animals in genera and species
- The front of a house ranges with the street.
- which way the forests range
- The street-lamps burn amid the baleful glooms, / Amidst the soundless solitudes immense / Of ranged mansions dark and still as tombs.
- And range with humble livers in content.
- Maccabeus ranged his army by hands.
- It would be absurd in me to range myself on the side of the Duke of Bedford and the corresponding society.
- The peba ranges from Texas to Paraguay.
- (Holland)
- to range the coast
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English
Verb
(chang)citation, passage=Of all the transitions brought about on the Earth’s surface by temperature change, the melting of ice into water is the starkest. It is binary. And for the land beneath, the air above and the life around, it changes everything.}}
Catherine Clabby
Focus on Everything, passage=Not long ago, it was difficult to produce photographs of tiny creatures with every part in focus.
- At the first sight / they have changed eyes. (exchanged looks )
- I would give any thing to change a word or two with this person.
- to change a horse
Synonyms
* (to make something different) alter, modify * (to make something into something different) transformDerived terms
* changeable * change by reversal * change course * change direction * changeful * change out * change hands * change horses in midstream * change integrity * changeling * change one's mind * change one's tune * change places * change tack * change the channel * change the subject * change up * chop and change * everchanging * get changed * leopard change his spots * presto change-o *Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=Of all the transitions brought about on the Earth’s surface by temperature change , the melting of ice into water is the starkest. It is binary. And for the land beneath, the air above and the life around, it changes everything.}}
- The product is undergoing a change in order to improve it.
- Can I get change for this $100 bill please?
citation, page= , passage=After beating champions Chelsea 3-1 on Boxing Day, Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger made eight changes to his starting XI in an effort to freshen things up, with games against Birmingham and Manchester City to come in the next seven days.}}
- A customer who pays with a 10-pound note for a £9 item receives one pound in change .
- The train journey from Bristol to Nottingham includes a change at Birmingham.
- Four bells admit twenty-four changes in ringing.
- They call an alehouse a change .