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# range

«range» in Mova's school dictionary: **the difference between the smallest and the biggest of a…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (range, ranges); verb (range, ranges, ranged, ranging)

### meaning for a pupil

1) In maths, the range is the difference between the smallest and the biggest of a set of numbers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/range/#m1)

2) A range is a set of different things of one kind: «a range of colours». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/range/#m2)

3) A range of hills or mountains is a row of them. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/range/#m3)

4) Range is how far something can reach: «out of range». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/range/#m4)

5) To range from … to … is to go between two limits: «ages range from 6 to 10». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/range/#m5)

6) A range is a cooker (stove). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/range/#m6)

7) To range over a place means to roam about it freely, without a fixed route. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/range/#m7)

### sense in the lessons

in data: biggest minus smallest; in stories, the numbers from one value to another («ages range from 6 to 11»); in geography: mountain ranges like the Rockies; in science: the range of a sound or a phone signal, the home range of an animal; phrases: «in range», «out of range», «a wide range of»

### examples

- Find the range of 3, 8, 5 and 12. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/range/#x1)
- The ages range from 6 to 11 years. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/range/#x2)
- Prices range from 2 to 9 dollars. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/range/#x3)
- The temperatures had a range of 7 degrees. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/range/#x4)
- The Rocky Mountains are a long mountain range. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/range/#x5)
- The shop sells a wide range of toys. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/range/#x6)
- My phone is out of range here. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/range/#x7)
- The wolves roam over a large range. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/range/#x8)
- Grandma cooks on an old range. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/range/#x9)
- Wild and shy and monstrous creatures ranged in her plains and forests. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/range/#x10)

### note

Range in data = highest − lowest (12 − 3 = 9). Trap: «from 6 to 11» lists 6 whole numbers (6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11), but the range is 5. The range is one number, not two.

### In the corpora

- [Five lines give a good range of notes; for notes above or below the staff, short extra lines are added.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/2-reading-music-notes-beats-and-rhythm/6/)
- [Free-range hens can go outside, caged hens live inside buildings, and many countries have banned the smallest cages.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/287-farm-animals-milk-eggs-wool-and-meat/16/)
- [Writing is judged on things like paragraphs, cohesion, punctuation, spelling and a range of sentence types.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/53-writing-assessment-and-the-year-6-panic/6/)
- [Real numbers are only estimates, so historians give ranges, not exact counts like a game screen.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/24-population-and-cities/9/)
- [Asteroids are rocky or metallic leftovers from the birth of the Solar System, ranging from pebbles to hundreds of kilometres across.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/9-asteroids-and-the-asteroid-belt/5/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «range» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/range/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.