different between range vs swerve

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

Alternative forms

• swarve

Etymology

From Middle English swerven, swarven, from Old English sweorfan (“to file; rub; polish; scour; turn aside”), from Proto-Germanic *swerban? (“to rub off; wipe; mop”), from Proto-Indo-European *swerb?- (“to turn; wipe; sweep”). Cognate with West Frisian swerve (“to wander; roam; swerve”), Dutch zwerven (“to wander; stray; roam”), Low German swarven (“to swerve; wander; riot”), Swedish dialectal svärva (“to wipe”), Icelandic sverfa (“to file”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /sw??(?)v/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /sw?v/
• Rhymes: -??(r)v

Verb

swerve (third-person singular simple present swerves, present participle swerving, simple past and past participle swerved)

1. (archaic) To stray; to wander; to rove.

   • A maid thitherward did run, / To catch her sparrow which from her did swerve.

2. To go out of a straight line; to deflect.
3. To wander from any line prescribed, or from a rule or duty; to depart from what is established by law, duty, custom, or the like; to deviate.
   • 1785, The Book of Common Prayer According to the Use in King's Chapel

     I swerve not from thy commandments.

   • They swerve from the strict letter of the law.

   • October 28, 1705, Francis Atterbury, a sermon

     many who, through the contagion of evil example, swerve exceedingly from the rules of their holy Faith

4. To bend; to incline.
5. To climb or move upward by winding or turning.
   • c. 1692, John Dryden, Amaryllis

     The tree was high; / Yet nimbly up from bough to bough I swerved.

6. To turn aside or deviate to avoid impact.
7. Of a projectile, to travel in a curved line
8. To drive in the trajectory of another vehicle to stop it, to cut off.
   • 1869, Leo Tolstoy, War & Peace, Part 10, Chapter 39:

     The French invaders, like an infuriated animal that has in its onslaught received a mortal wound, felt that they were perishing, but could not stop, any more than the Russian army, weaker by one half, could help swerving.

Related terms

• swarf

Translations

Noun

swerve (plural swerves)

1. A sudden movement out of a straight line, for example to avoid a collision.
   • 1990, American Motorcyclist (volume 44, number 7, page 11)

     The distinction between using a skill subconsciously and employing it in the full knowledge of what was happening made a dramatic difference. I could execute a swerve to avoid an obstacle in a fraction of the time it previously took.

2. A deviation from duty or custom.
   • 1874, William Edwin Boardman, Faith-work, Or the Labours of Dr. Cullis, in Boston (page 56)

     […] indubitable evidence of a swerve from the principle of the work.

Derived terms

• body swerve

Translations

Anagrams

• Wevers

Middle English

Verb

swerve

1. Alternative form of swerven