different between range vs dispose

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 French disposer.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /d?s?po?z/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /d??sp??z/
• Rhymes: -??z

Verb

dispose (third-person singular simple present disposes, present participle disposing, simple past and past participle disposed)

1. (intransitive, used with "of") To eliminate or to get rid of something.

2. To distribute or arrange; to put in place.
   • 1600, William Shakespeare, Henry V, act 4, scene III

     Now, dear soldiers, march away: / And how thou pleasest, God, dispose the day!

   • 1811, Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility, chapter 6

     Marianne’s pianoforte was unpacked and properly disposed of, and Elinor’s drawing were affixed to the walls of their sitting rooms.

   • 1934, Rex Stout, Fer-de-Lance, 1992 Bantam edition, ?ISBN, page 47:

     I sat down within three feet of the entrance door, and I had no sooner got disposed than the door opened and a man came in […] .

3. To deal out; to assign to a use.
   • 1818 (first published), John Evelyn, diary entry for 1634

     what he designed to bestow on her funeral, he would rather dispose among the poor

4. To incline.

   (Used here intransitively in the passive voice)

   • Endure and conquer; Jove will soon dispose / To future good our past and present woes.

   • 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Suspicion

     They [suspicions] dispose kings to tyranny, husbands to jealousy, and wise men to irresolution and melancholy.

   • At twilight in the summer […] the mice come out. They […] eat the luncheon crumbs. Mr. Checkly, for instance, always brought his dinner in a paper parcel in his coat-tail pocket, and ate it when so disposed, sprinkling crumbs lavishly […] on the floor.

5. (obsolete) To bargain; to make terms.
6. (obsolete) To regulate; to adjust; to settle; to determine.

   • the knightly forms of combat to dispose

Synonyms

• incline
• discard

Antonyms

• indispose
• disincline

Derived terms

• disposition
• disposal
• dispose of

Translations

Noun

dispose

1. (obsolete) The disposal or management of something.
2. (obsolete) Behaviour; disposition.

French

Verb

dispose

1. first-person singular present indicative of disposer
2. third-person singular present indicative of disposer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of disposer
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of disposer
5. second-person singular imperative of disposer

Italian

Verb

dispose

1. third-person singular past historic of disporre

Anagrams

• dispeso