Range (n.) To set in a row, or in rows |
Range (n.) To place (as a single individual) among others in a line, row, or order, as in the ranks of an army |
Range (n.) To separate into parts |
Range (n.) To dispose in a classified or in systematic order |
Range (n.) To rove over or through |
Range (n.) To sail or pass in a direction parallel to or near |
Range (n.) To be native to, or to live in |
Range (v. i.) To rove at large |
Range (v. i.) To have range |
Range (v. i.) To be placed in order |
Range (v. i.) To have a certain direction |
Range (v. i.) To be native to, or live in, a certain district or region |
Range (v.) A series of things in a line |
Range (v.) An aggregate of individuals in one rank or degree |
Range (v.) The step of a ladder |
Range (v.) A kitchen grate. |
Range (v.) An extended cooking apparatus of cast iron, set in brickwork, and affording conveniences for various ways of cooking |
Range (v.) A bolting sieve to sift meal. |
Range (v.) A wandering or roving |
Range (v.) That which may be ranged over |
Range (v.) Extent or space taken in by anything excursive |
Range (v.) The region within which a plant or animal naturally lives. |
Range (v.) The horizontal distance to which a shot or other projectile is carried. |
Range (v.) Sometimes, less properly, the trajectory of a shot or projectile. |
Range (v.) A place where shooting, as with cannons or rifles, is practiced. |
Range (v.) In the public land system of the United States, a row or line of townships lying between two successive meridian lines six miles apart. |
Range (v.) See Range of cable, below. |
Wave (v. t.) See Waive. |
Wave (v. i.) To play loosely |
Wave (v. i.) To be moved to and fro as a signal. |
Wave (v. i.) To fluctuate |
Wave (v. t.) To move one way and the other |
Wave (v. t.) To raise into inequalities of surface |
Wave (v. t.) To move like a wave, or by floating |
Wave (v. t.) To call attention to, or give a direction or command to, by a waving motion, as of the hand |
Wave (v. i.) An advancing ridge or swell on the surface of a liquid, as of the sea, resulting from the oscillatory motion of the particles composing it when disturbed by any force their position of rest |
Wave (v. i.) A vibration propagated from particle to particle through a body or elastic medium, as in the transmission of sound |
Wave (v. i.) Water |
Wave (v. i.) Unevenness |
Wave (v. i.) A waving or undulating motion |
Wave (v. i.) The undulating line or streak of luster on cloth watered, or calendered, or on damask steel. |
Wave (v. i.) Fig.: A swelling or excitement of thought, feeling, or energy |
Wave (n.) Woe. |
overshoot wave-off go-around | an approach that fails and gives way to another attempt |
wave | a movement like that of a sudden occurrence or increase in a specified phenomenon, a wave of settlers, troops advancing in waves |
range animal | any animal that lives and grazes in the grassy open land of western North America (especially horses, cattle, sheep) |
electric range | a kitchen range in which the heat for cooking is provided by electric power |
firing range target range | a practice range for target practice |
full-wave rectifier | rectifier that converts the negative half wave of an alternating current into a positive half wave |
gas range gas stove gas cooker | a range with gas rings and an oven for cooking with gas |
golf range driving range | a practice range for practicing golf shots |
omnirange omnidirectional range omnidirectional radio range | a navigational system consisting of a network of radio beacons that provide aircraft with information about exact position and bearing |
practice range | a place for practicing golf shots |
range | a place for shooting (firing or driving) projectiles of various kinds, the army maintains a missile range in the desert, any good golf club will have a range where you can practice |
rangefinder range finder | a measuring instrument (acoustic or optical or electronic) for finding the distance of an object |
range hood | exhaust hood over a kitchen range |
range pole ranging pole flagpole | surveying instrument consisting of a straight rod painted in bands of alternate red and white each one foot wide, used for sightings by surveyors |
rifle range | a range where people can practice shooting rifles, during the war they turned the bowling alleys into rifle ranges |
rocket range | a firing range for rocket missiles |
shooting gallery shooting range | an enclosed firing range with targets for rifle or handgun practice |
stove kitchen stove range kitchen range cooking stove | a kitchen appliance used for cooking food, dinner was already on the stove |
test range | a range for conducting tests |
waveguide wave guide | a hollow metal conductor that provides a path to guide microwaves, used in radar |
duality wave-particle duality | (physics) the property of matter and electromagnetic radiation that is characterized by the fact that some properties can be explained best by wave theory and others by particle theory |
visual range | distance at which a given standard object can be seen with the unaided eye |
scope range reach orbit compass ambit | an area in which something acts or operates or has power or control: the range of a supersonic jet, a piano has a greater range than the human voice, the ambit of municipal legislation, within the compass of this article, within the scope of an investigation, outside the reach of the law, in the political orbit of a world power |
approximate range ballpark | near to the scope or range of something, his answer wasn't even in the right ballpark |
wave | a hairdo that creates undulations in the hair |
finger wave | a wave made with the fingers |
permanent wave permanent perm | a series of waves in the hair made by applying heat and chemicals |
compass range reach grasp | the limit of capability, within the compass of education |
wave theory undulatory theory wave theory of light | (physics) the theory that light is transmitted as waves |
wave mechanics | the modern form of quantum theory, an extension of quantum mechanics based on Schrodinger's equation, atomic events are explained as interactions between particle waves |
Schrodinger equation Schrodinger wave equation | the fundamental equation of wave mechanics |
wave equation | a differential equation that describes the passage of harmonic waves through a medium |
wave waving wafture | the act of signaling by a movement of the hand |
crime wave | a sudden rise in the crime rate |
gravity wave gravitation wave | (physics) a wave that is hypothesized to propagate gravity and to travel at the speed of light |
sine wave | a wave whose waveform resembles a sine curve |
wave undulation | (physics) a movement up and down or back and forth |
soliton soliton wave solitary wave | (physics) a quantum of energy or quasiparticle that can be propagated as a traveling wave in nonlinear systems and is neither preceded nor followed by another such disturbance, does not obey the superposition principle and does not dissipate, soliton waves can travel long distances with little loss of energy or structure |
standing wave stationary wave | a wave (as a sound wave in a chamber or an electromagnetic wave in a transmission line) in which the ratio of its instantaneous amplitude at one point to that at any other point does not vary with time |
traveling wave travelling wave | a wave in which the medium moves in the direction of propagation of the wave |
sound wave acoustic wave | (acoustics) a wave that transmits sound |
air wave | a sound wave that is transmitted via air |
wave form waveform wave shape | the shape of a wave illustrated graphically by plotting the values of the period quantity against time |
shock wave blast wave | a region of high pressure travelling through a gas at a high velocity, the explosion created a shock wave |
swell crestless wave | the undulating movement of the surface of the open sea |
tidal wave | a wave resulting from the periodic flow of the tides that is caused by the gravitational attraction of the moon and sun |
tidal wave | an unusual (and often destructive) rise of water along the seashore caused by a storm or a combination of wind and high tide |
tidal wave | an overwhelming manifestation of some emotion or phenomenon, a tidal wave of nausea, the flood of letters hit him with the force of a tidal wave, a tidal wave of crime |
roller roll rolling wave | a long heavy sea wave as it advances towards the shore |
wave moving ridge | one of a series of ridges that moves across the surface of a liquid (especially across a large body of water) |