Range

Definition

range /rendʒ/ n ၁။ [C] က႑တစ္ခုတည္း၌ ကြဲျပားေသာ အစဥ္။ အမ်ဳိးမ်ဳိး။ (အ)စဥ္။ stock a whole range of goods ❍ The new model comes in an exciting range of colours. ❍ Guests can participate in a wide range of leisure activities. ၂။ [C] အပိုင္းအျခား။ people with a broad/ limited/ narrow range of experience ❍ Most of the students are in the age range 17-20. ❍ The annual range of temperature is from -10¹C to 40¹C. ❍ There's a wide range of ability in the class. ❍ It's difficult to find a house we like within our price range. ၃။ (က) [U] ၾကားႏိုင္ျမင္ႏိုင္စြမ္းေသာ အကြာအေဝး။ It is outside my range of vision. ❍ They live within range of the transmitter. See also LONG-RANGE, SHORT-RANGE (ခ) [U, sing] အလွမ္းမီေသာ အကြာအေဝး။ in/ within/ out of (firing) range ❍ shoot at point-blank range. ေတ့ျဖဳတ္သည္။ ❍ The gun has a range of five miles. (ဂ) [C] ေလယာဥ္ စသည္ ဆီထပ္မျဖည့္ဘဲ သြားႏိုင္ေသာ အကြာအေဝး။ အလွမ္းမီေသာ အကြာအေဝး။ ၄။ [C] (က) စက္ပစ္ကြင္း။ an army range ❍ a rifle-range. (ခ) ဒံုးပစ္ကြင္း။ ၅။ [C] အတန္း။ အစဥ္။ the Andes mountain range. ၆။ the range [sing] ( US ) ေမြးျမဴထားေသာတိရစၧာန္မ်ား လႊတ္ထားႏိုင္ရန္ က်ယ္ဝန္းေသာ စားက်က္ေျမ။ ၇။ [C] ခ်က္ျပဳတ္ရန္မီးဖို။ a kitchen range. See also FREE-RANGE v ၁။ ~ between A and B / ~ from A to B …မွ … အထိ ရိွသည္။ The students' ages range from 16 to 21. ❍ Prices range between $7 and $10. ❍ subjects ranging from accounting to zoology ❍ The fields range in size from half an acre to six acres. ၂။ (က) (esp passive) အစီအရီ ထားသည္။ အတန္းလိုက္ ေနရာယူသည္။ flowerpots ranged in rows on the window-sill ❍ The spectators had ranged themselves/ were ranged along the whole route of the procession. (ခ) ~ sb/ oneself with/ against sb/ sth … ဘက္က ရပ္တည္သည္။ On this issue, she has ranged herself with the Opposition. ၃။ (က) ေျခဆန္႔သည္။ At this stage, the young animals do not range far from the family. (ခ) (အေၾကာင္းအရာ၊ ကိစၥမ်ား ကို) လႊမ္းၿခံဳသည္။ a discussion ranging over many different topics. See also WIDE-RANGING

Examples

1. [range of] : The speaker will deal with a broad a range of issues affecting professional women.
2. Our training programme covers all ranges of ability.
3. [range of] : Try our new range of beauty products.
4. [wide range] : We stock a wide range of office furniture.
5. They hired a top of the range motor home.
6. Books for children in the 11-to-14 age range
7. [in the range] : Temperatures are expected to be in the range 75 to 85 degrees.
8. [vocal range] : A singer with an impressive vocal range
9. Such a decision is not within the range of my responsibility.
10. [in/within range (of something)] : The children turned their cameras on anyone in range.
11. [out of range (of something)] : It’s best to stay out of range of recording equipment.
12. [within range of something] : Several cities are within range of their artillery.
13. [short-/medium-/long-range] : Medium-range antitank missiles
14. [close/point-blank range] : The gunman fired twice at point-blank range.
15. A rifle range
16. A driving range