range

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun A number or grouping of things in the same category or within specified limits.
• noun An amount or extent of variation.
• noun Music The gamut of tones that a voice or instrument is capable of producing.
• noun A class, rank, or order.
• noun Extent of perception, knowledge, experience, or ability.
• noun The area or sphere in which an activity takes place.
• noun The maximum extent or distance limiting operation, action, or effectiveness, as of a sound, radio signal, instrument, firearm, or aircraft.
• noun The maximum distance that can be covered by a vehicle with a specified payload before its fuel supply is exhausted.
• noun The distance between a projectile weapon and its target.
• noun A place equipped for practice in shooting at targets.
• noun A testing area at which rockets and missiles are launched and tracked.
• noun A place or business where golf shots can be practiced.
• noun An extensive area of open land on which livestock wander and graze.
• noun The geographic region in which a plant or animal normally lives or grows.
• noun The opportunity or freedom to wander or explore.
• noun Mathematics The set of all values a given function may take on.
• noun Statistics The difference or interval between the smallest and largest values in a frequency distribution or a set of data.
• noun A group or series of things extending in a line or row, especially a row or chain of mountains.
• noun One of a series of double-faced bookcases in a library stack room.
• noun A north-south strip of townships, each six miles square, numbered east and west from a specified meridian in a US public land survey.
• noun A stove with spaces for cooking a number of things at the same time.
• intransitive verb To vary within specified limits.
• intransitive verb To extend in a particular direction.
• intransitive verb To cover or have application to a number of things.
• intransitive verb To move through, along, or around in an area or region.
• intransitive verb To wander freely; roam.
• intransitive verb To look over something or around an area or place.
• intransitive verb To live or grow within a particular region.
• intransitive verb To arrange or dispose in a particular order, especially in rows or lines.
• intransitive verb To assign to a particular category; classify.
• intransitive verb To move through or along or around in (an area or region).
• intransitive verb To look over or throughout (something).
• intransitive verb To turn (livestock) onto an extensive area of open land for grazing.
• intransitive verb To align (a gun, for example) with a target.
• intransitive verb To determine the distance of (a target).
• intransitive verb To be capable of reaching (a maximum distance).
• intransitive verb Nautical To uncoil (an anchor cable) on deck so the anchor may descend easily.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun 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.
• 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.