different between range vs depart

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)

1. A line or series of mountains, buildings, etc.
2. A fireplace; a fire or other cooking apparatus; now specifically, a large cooking stove with many hotplates.
3. Selection, array.

4. An area for practicing shooting at targets.
5. An area for military training or equipment testing.

   Synonyms: base, training area, training ground

6. The distance from a person or sensor to an object, target, emanation, or event.

   Synonyms: distance, radius

7. Maximum distance of capability (of a weapon, radio, detector, fuel supply, etc.).

8. An area of open, often unfenced, grazing land.
9. Extent or space taken in by anything excursive; compass or extent of excursion; reach; scope.
10. (mathematics) The set of values (points) which a function can obtain.

    Antonym: domain

11. (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.
12. (sports, baseball) The defensive area that a player can cover.

13. (music) The scale of all the tones a voice or an instrument can produce.

    Synonym: compass

14. (ecology) The geographical area or zone where a species is normally naturally found.
15. (programming) A sequential list of values specified by an iterator.

16. 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.

17. (obsolete) The step of a ladder; a rung.
18. (obsolete, Britain, dialect) A bolting sieve to sift meal.
19. 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.

20. (US, historical) In the public land system, a row or line of townships lying between two succession meridian lines six miles apart.
21. 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)

1. (intransitive) To travel over (an area, etc); to roam, wander. [from 15th c.]
2. (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.

3. (obsolete, intransitive) To exercise the power of something over something else; to cause to submit to, over. [16th-19th c.]
4. (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.
5. (intransitive, mathematics, computing, followed by over) Of a variable, to be able to take any of the values in a specified range.
6. (transitive) To classify.

   to range plants and animals in genera and species

7. (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.

8. (intransitive) To be placed in order; to be ranked; to admit of arrangement or classification; to rank.
9. (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.

10. (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.

11. (biology) To be native to, or live in, a certain district or region.

12. To separate into parts; to sift.

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13. To sail or pass in a direction parallel to or near.

14. (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.

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)

1. strict

Declension

French

Verb

range

1. first-person singular present indicative of ranger
2. third-person singular present indicative of ranger
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of ranger
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of ranger
5. 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)

1. the inside of a piece of clothing, but worn inside-out

   Antonym: rette

2. 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)

1. (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

1. definite singular of rang
2. plural of rang

References

• “range” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Anagrams

• ganer, garen, genar, grena, ragen, ragne, regna, renga

Portuguese

Verb

range

1. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of ranger
2. second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of ranger

English

Etymology

From Old French departir, from Late Latin departi? (“to divide”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: d?-pät', IPA^(key): /d??p??t/
• (General American) enPR: d?-pärt', IPA^(key): /d??p??t/
• Rhymes: -??(?)t

Verb

depart (third-person singular simple present departs, present participle departing, simple past and past participle departed)

1. (intransitive) To leave.
   • c. 1598, William Shakespeare, Henry V, Act IV, Scene 3,^[1]

     [...] he which hath no stomach to this fight,

     Let him depart;

   • 1611, King James Version of the Bible, 1 Samuel 4.21,^[2]

     The glory is departed from Israel.

   • 1839, Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby, Chapter 56,^[3]

     With very little excuse for departing so abruptly, Ralph left him [...]

   • 2009, George Monbiot, The Guardian, 7 September:

     The government maintains that if its regulations are too stiff, British bankers will leave the country. It's true that they have been threatening to depart in droves, but the obvious answer is: "Sod off then."

2. (intransitive) To set out on a journey.
   • 1886, Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge, Chapter 28,^[4]

     Elizabeth saw her friend depart for Port-Bredy [...]

   • 1904, Joseph Conrad, Nostromo, Part 2, Chapter 4,^[5]

     Distant acclamations, words of command yelled out, and a roll of drums on the jetty greeted the departing general.

3. (intransitive) To die.
   • c. 1597, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 2, Act I, Scene 1,^[6]

     [...] his tongue

     Sounds ever after as a sullen bell,

     Rememb’red tolling a departing friend.

   • 1611, King James Version of the Bible, Luke 2.29,^[7]

     Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace.

4. (intransitive, figuratively) To disappear, vanish; to cease to exist.
   • 1846, Charlotte Brontë, “The Teacher’s Monologue” in Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell,^[8]

     For youth departs, and pleasure flies,

     And life consumes away,

   • 1934, George Orwell, Burmese Days, Chapter 15,^[9]

     An extraordinary joie de vivre had come over them all as soon as the shaky feeling departed from their legs.
5. (intransitive) To deviate (from), be different (from), fail to conform.

   His latest statements seemed to depart from party policy somewhat.

   to depart from a title or defence in legal pleading

   • 1788, James Madison, “Number 39,” in Alexander Hamilton, John Jay and James Madison, The Federalist, On the New Constitution, Philadelphia: Benjamin Warner, 1818, p. 204,^[10]

     If the plan of the convention, therefore, be found to depart from the republican character, its advocates must abandon it as no longer defensible.

   • 1960, Muriel Spark, The Bachelors, Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1961, Chapter 12, p. 201,^[11]

     [...] he compared the precise points at which the handwriting of the letter departed from examples of Freda Flower’s handwriting and coincided with examples of Patrick Seton’s [...]
6. (transitive) To go away from; to leave.
   • 1589, John Eliot (translator), Aduise giuen by a Catholike gentleman, to the nobilitie & commons of France, London: John Wolfe, p. 27,^[12]

     [...] he [...] did pray them only to do no thing against the honor of God, & rather to depart the territories of his empire, then to suffer their consciences to be forced.

   • 1989, Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day, Vintage Canada, 2014, “Day Two: Morning,”^[13]

     At one stage, when I happened to depart the room in the midst of an address by one of the German gentlemen, M. Dupont suddenly rose and followed me out.

   • 1997, Richard Flanagan, The Sound of One Hand Clapping, New York: Grove, 2001, Chapter 64, p. 323,^[14]

     She felt what Mrs Maja Picotti had suspected in her prayers, that her soul had departed her body.

   • 2009, The Guardian, Sport Blog, 9 September:

     The build-up to Saturday's visit of Macedonia and this encounter with the Dutch could be construed as odd in the sense that there seemed a basic acceptance, inevitability even, that Burley would depart office in their immediate aftermath.

7. (obsolete, transitive) To divide up; to distribute, share.

   • and so all the worlde seythe that betwyxte three knyghtes is departed clerely knyghthode, that is Sir Launcelot du Lake, Sir Trystrams de Lyones and Sir Lamerok de Galys—thes bere now the renowne.

   • 1595, Arthur Golding (translator), Politicke, Moral, and Martial Discourses by Jacques Hurault, London: Adam Islip, Book 3, Chapter 17, p. 458,^[15]

     Then fortified hee his trenches, and departed them in foure quarters, wherein he made good store of fires, in such distance one from another, as are woont to be made in a campe.

   • 1597, Thomas Dawson, The Second part of the good Hus-wiues Iewell, London: Edward White,^[16]

     Fyrst on that day yee shall serue a calfe sodden and blessed, and sodden egs with greene sauce, and set them before the most principall estate, and that Lorde because of his high estate, shal depart them al about him [...]

   • 1602, Patrick Simon (translator), The Estate of the Church with the Discourse of Times, from the Apostles untill This Present, London: Thomas Creede, “Extract out of the Acts of the Councell of Nice,” p. 102,^[17]

     That Deacons be not preferred before Priests, nor sit in their ranke, nor in their presence do distribute the Sacraments but only minister vnto them, and assist when they do distribute: but when there are no Priests there, in that case they may depart them.

8. (obsolete, transitive) To separate, part.
   • Syr knyght[,] said the two squyers that were with her[,] yonder are two knyghtes that fyghte for thys lady, goo thyder and departe them […].

   • 1550, Thomas Nicholls (translator), The Hystory Writtone by Thucidides the Athenyan, London, Book 3, Chapter 2, p. 74,^[18]

     Thies be than the causes [...] for the whiche we depart our selues from the Athenyans [...]

   • 1582, Stephen Batman (translator), Batman vppon Bartholome his booke De proprietatibus rerum, London: Thomas East, Book 5, Chapter 26, “Of the shoulders,”^[19]

     The twisted forkes [i.e. fork-shaped bones] be néedfull to binde the shoulders, and to depart them from the breast.

   • 1617, Thomas Taylor, Dauids Learning, London: Henry Fetherstone, Dedicatory epistle,^[20]

     Great is the affinitie of soule and body, neerely coupled and wedded by God, like Husband & Wife, for better and worse till death depart them.

Usage notes

The past participle, departed, unlike that of the majority of English verbs, has an active, rather than a passive sense when used adjectivally:

• not even a legible inscription to record its departed greatness (Charles Dickens, American Notes, Chapter 8,^[21])
• As soon as they had left, Mrs. Gibson began her usual comments on the departed visitors. (Elizabeth Gaskell, Wives and Daughters, Chapter 16,^[22])
• the sky still clung to and retained some lingering skirts of light from the departed day (Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows, Chapter 7,^[23])

Synonyms

• (to leave): See Thesaurus:leave
• (to die): See Thesaurus:die
• (to deviate): deviate, digress, diverge, sidetrack, straggle, vary
• (to go away from): leave

Antonyms

• (to leave): arrive, come, stay
• (to die): live
• (to deviate): conform

Related terms

• departure
• dearly departed

Translations

Noun

depart

1. (obsolete) Division; separation, as of compound substances.
2. (obsolete) A going away; departure.
   • c. 1590, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 2, Act I, Scene 1,^[24]

     at my depart for France

   • 1633, John Donne, “To M. I. L.” in Poems, London: John Marriot, p. 101,^[25]

     Of that short Roll of friends writ in my heart

     Which with thy name begins, since their depart,

     Whether in the English Provinces they be,

     Or drinke of Po, Sequan, or Danubie,

Anagrams

• detrap, drapet, parted, petard, prated, rapted, tarped, traped