ranging Meaning & Definition
What Does Ranging Mean?
Ranging is used as a verb meaning present participle and gerund of range. As a noun, it means The act of one who ranges. As a noun, it means Act of one who ranges.
Ranging Definition (Verb)
- present participle and gerund of range
Ranging as a Noun
- The act of one who ranges.
- A back-and-forth movement.
Verb
- To travel over (an area, etc); to roam, wander.
- To rove over or through.
to range the fields
- To exercise the power of something over something else; to cause to submit to, over.
- To bring (something) into a specified position or relationship (especially, of opposition) with something else.
- (followed by over) Of a variable, to be able to take any of the values in a specified range.
The variable x ranges over all real values from 0 to 10.
- To classify.
to range plants and animals in genera and species
- To form a line or a row.
The front of a house ranges with the street.
- To be placed in order; to be ranked; to admit of arrangement or classification; to rank.
- 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.
- 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.
- To be native to, or live in, a certain district or region.
The peba ranges from Texas to Paraguay.
- To separate into parts; to sift.
- To sail or pass in a direction parallel to or near.
to range the coast
- Of a player, to travel a significant distance for a defensive play.
Noun
- Act of one who ranges.
Synonyms of Ranging
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Ranging synonyms and antonyms →Antonyms of Ranging
No antonyms or near antonyms are listed by the available sources for this entry.
Ranging in a Sentence
to range the fields
The variable x ranges over all real values from 0 to 10.
to range plants and animals in genera and species
The front of a house ranges with the street.
The peba ranges from Texas to Paraguay.
to range the coast
Word Forms & Grammar
ranging
ranging (countable and uncountable, plural rangings)