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distinguish
English
Etymology
From Middle English distingwen, from Old French distinguer, from Latin distinguere (“to separate, divide, distinguish, set off, adorn, literally mark off”), from di-, dis- (“apart”) + stinguere. Compare extinguish.
Pronunciation
- enPR: d?s-t?ng?gw?sh, IPA(key): /d?s?t???w??/
- Rhymes: -???w??
- Hyphenation: dis?tin?guish
Verb
distinguish (third-person singular simple present distinguishes, present participle distinguishing, simple past and past participle distinguished)
- To recognize someone or something as different from others based on its characteristics.
- Synonyms: differentiate, discriminate; see also Thesaurus:tell apart
- Antonym: confuse
- To see someone or something clearly or distinctly.
- To make oneself noticeably different or better from others through accomplishments.
- 1784: William Jones, The Description and Use of a New Portable Orrery, &c., PREFACE
- THE favourable reception the Orrery has met with from Per?ons of the fir?t di?tinction, and from Gentlemen and Ladies in general, has induced me to add to it ?everal new improvements in order to give it a degree of Perfection; and di?tingui?h it from others; which by Piracy, or Imitation, may be introduced to the Public.
- 1784: William Jones, The Description and Use of a New Portable Orrery, &c., PREFACE
- (transitive, obsolete) To make to differ.
Usage notes
In sense “see a difference”, more casual than differentiate or the formal discriminate; more casual is “tell the difference”.
Derived terms
- distinguished
- distinguishable
- distinguishing
- distinguishness
- undistinguishing
Related terms
- distinct
- distinction
- extinguish
Translations
Further reading
- distinguish in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- distinguish in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
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range
English
Etymology
From Middle English rengen, from Old French rengier (“to range, to rank, to order,”), from the noun renc, reng, ranc, rang (“a rank, row”), from Frankish *hring, from Proto-Germanic *hringaz (“ring, circle, curve”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?e?nd?/
- Rhymes: -e?nd?
Noun
range (plural ranges)
- 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.
- Selection, array.
- An area for practicing shooting at targets.
- An area for military training or equipment testing.
- Synonyms: base, training area, training ground
- The distance from a person or sensor to an object, target, emanation, or event.
- Synonyms: distance, radius
- 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.
- (mathematics) The set of values (points) which a function can obtain.
- Antonym: domain
- (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.
- Synonym: compass
- (ecology) The geographical area or zone where a species is normally naturally found.
- (programming) A sequential list of values specified by an iterator.
- An aggregate of individuals in one rank or degree; an order; a class.
- 1677, Matthew Hale, The Primitive Origination of Mankind, Considered and Examined According to the Light of Nature
- The next Range of Beings above him are the pure and immaterial Intelligences , the next below him is the sensible Nature.
- 1677, Matthew Hale, The Primitive Origination of Mankind, Considered and Examined According to the Light of Nature
- (obsolete) The step of a ladder; a rung.
- (obsolete, Britain, dialect) A bolting sieve to sift meal.
- A wandering or roving; a going to and fro; an excursion; a ramble; an expedition.
- , "Taking Pleasure in Other Men's Sins"
- He may take a range all the world over.
- , "Taking Pleasure in Other Men's Sins"
- (US, historical) In the public land system, a row or line of townships lying between two succession meridian lines six miles apart.
- The variety of roles that an actor can play in a satisfactory way.
Hyponyms
Holonyms
- (values a function can obtain): codomain
Coordinate terms
- (firing range): shooting gallery
- (radius): azimuth, elevation, inclination
- (cooking stove): oven
Derived terms
- open the range
- very-long-range
Translations
Descendants
- Japanese: ??? (?renji)
- Korean: ??? (reinji)
Verb
range (third-person singular simple present ranges, present participle ranging, simple past and past participle ranged)
- (intransitive) To travel over (an area, etc); to roam, wander. [from 15th c.]
- (transitive) To rove over or through.
- to range the fields
- 1713, John Gay, Rural Sports
- Teach him to range the ditch, and force the brake.
- (obsolete, intransitive) To exercise the power of something over something else; to cause to submit to, over. [16th-19th c.]
- (transitive) To bring (something) into a specified position or relationship (especially, of opposition) with something else. [from 16th c.]
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 22
- 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.
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 22
- (intransitive, mathematics, computing, followed by over) Of a variable, to be able to take any of the values in a specified range.
- (transitive) To classify.
- to range plants and animals in genera and species
- (intransitive) To form a line or a row.
- The front of a house ranges with the street.
- 1873, James Thomson (B.V.), The City of Dreadful Night
- The street-lamps burn amid the baleful glooms, / Amidst the soundless solitudes immense / Of ranged mansions dark and still as tombs.
- (intransitive) To be placed in order; to be ranked; to admit of arrangement or classification; to rank.
- (transitive) 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.
- Maccabeus ranged his army by hands.
- (transitive) 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.
- 1796, Edmund Burke, a letter to a noble lord
- It would be absurd in me to range myself on the side of the Duke of Bedford and the corresponding society.
- 1796, Edmund Burke, a letter to a noble lord
- (biology) To be native to, or live in, a certain district or region.
- To separate into parts; to sift.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Holland to this entry?)
- To sail or pass in a direction parallel to or near.
- (baseball) Of a player, to travel a significant distance for a defensive play.
- 2009, Jason Aronoff, Going, Going ... Caught!: Baseball's Great Outfield Catches as Described by Those Who Saw Them, 1887-1964, page 250, ?ISBN
- Willie, playing in left-center, raced toward a ball no human had any business getting a glove to. Mays ranged to his left, searching, digging in, pouring on the speed, as the crowd screamed its anticipation of a triple.
- 2009, Jason Aronoff, Going, Going ... Caught!: Baseball's Great Outfield Catches as Described by Those Who Saw Them, 1887-1964, page 250, ?ISBN
For more quotations using this term, see Citations:range.
Translations
Further reading
- range in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- range in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- range at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- Agner, Negar, Regan, anger, areng, grane, regna, renga
Estonian
Etymology
Allegedly coined ex nihilo by Johannes Aavik in the 20th century.
Adjective
range (genitive range, partitive ranget)
- strict
Declension
French
Verb
range
- first-person singular present indicative of ranger
- third-person singular present indicative of ranger
- first-person singular present subjunctive of ranger
- third-person singular present subjunctive of ranger
- second-person singular imperative of ranger
Anagrams
- nager, régna
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From the adjective rang and vrang.
Noun
range f (definite singular ranga, indefinite plural ranger, definite plural rangene)
- the inside of a piece of clothing, but worn inside-out
- Antonym: rette
- the trachea, due to it being the wrong pipe, as opposed to the oesophagus, when eating
Verb
range (present tense rangar, past tense ranga, past participle ranga, passive infinitive rangast, present participle rangande, imperative rang)
- (transitive) to turn inside-out (e.g. a piece of clothing)
Alternative forms
- ranga (a-infinitive)
Derived terms
- range seg inn på ein
Adjective
range
- definite singular of rang
- plural of rang
References
- “range” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Anagrams
- ganer, garen, genar, grena, ragen, ragne, regna, renga
Portuguese
Verb
range
- third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of ranger
- second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of ranger
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