Layer and Range

noun

• Single thickness of usually some homogeneous substance.
  • usage: "slices of hard-boiled egg on a bed of spinach"
  • synonyms: bed
• A relatively thin sheetlike expanse or region lying over or under another.
• An abstract place usually conceived as having depth.
  • usage: "a good actor communicates on several levels"; "a simile has at least two layers of meaning"; "the mind functions on many strata simultaneously"
  • synonyms: level, stratum
• A hen that lays eggs.
• Thin structure composed of a single thickness of cells.

verb

• Make or form a layer.
  • usage: "layer the different colored sands"

• (n.) A shoot or twig of a plant, not detached from the stock, laid under ground for growth or propagation.
• (n.) One who or that which, lays.
• (n.) That which is laid; a stratum; a bed; one thickness, course or fold laid over another; as, a layer of clay or of sand in the earth; a layer of bricks or of plaster; the layers of an onion.
• (n.) An artificial oyster bed.

noun

• (n.) ()
  • synonyms: scope, reach, orbit, compass, ambit
• The limits within which something can be effective.
  • usage: "range of motion"; "he was beyond the reach of their fire"
  • synonyms: reach
• A large tract of grassy open land on which livestock can graze.
  • usage: "they used to drive the cattle across the open range every spring"; "he dreamed of a home on the range"
• A series of hills or mountains.
  • usage: "the valley was between two ranges of hills"; "the plains lay just beyond the mountain range"
  • synonyms: mountain range, range of mountains, chain, mountain chain, chain of mountains
• A place for shooting (firing or driving) projectiles of various kinds.
  • usage: "the army maintains a missile range in the desert"; "any good golf club will have a range where you can practice"
• A variety of different things or activities.
  • usage: "he answered a range of questions"; "he was impressed by the range and diversity of the collection"
• Mathematics) the set of values of the dependent variable for which a function is defined. (
  • usage: "the image of f(x) = x^2 is the set of all non-negative real numbers if the domain of the function is the set of all real numbers"
  • synonyms: image, range of a function
• The limit of capability.
  • usage: "within the compass of education"
  • synonyms: compass, reach, grasp
• A kitchen appliance used for cooking food.
  • usage: "dinner was already on the stove"
  • synonyms: stove, kitchen stove, kitchen range, cooking stove

verb

• Change or be different within limits.
  • usage: "Estimates for the losses in the earthquake range as high as $2 billion"; "Interest rates run from 5 to 10 percent"; "The instruments ranged from tuba to cymbals"; "My students range from very bright to dull"
  • synonyms: run
• Move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment.
  • usage: "The gypsies roamed the woods"; "roving vagabonds"; "the wandering Jew"; "The cattle roam across the prairie"; "the laborers drift from one town to the next"; "They rolled from town to town"
  • synonyms: roll, wander, swan, stray, tramp, roam, cast, ramble, rove, drift, vagabond
• Have a range; be capable of projecting over a certain distance, as of a gun.
  • usage: "This gun ranges over two miles"
• Range or extend over; occupy a certain area.
  • usage: "The plants straddle the entire state"
  • synonyms: straddle
• Lay out orderly or logically in a line or as if in a line.
  • usage: "lay out the clothes"; "lay out the arguments"
  • synonyms: array, lay out, set out
• Feed as in a meadow or pasture.
  • usage: "the herd was grazing"
  • synonyms: crop, browse, graze, pasture
• Let eat.
  • usage: "range the animals in the prairie"
• Assign a rank or rating to.
  • usage: "how would you rank these students"; "The restaurant is rated highly in the food guide"
  • synonyms: rate, rank, order, grade, place

• (v.) An aggregate of individuals in one rank or degree; an order; a class.
• (v.) The horizontal distance to which a shot or other projectile is carried.
• (v.i.) To be placed in order; to be ranked; to admit of arrangement or classification; to rank.
• (v.) A series of things in a line; a row; a rank; as, a range of buildings; a range of mountains.
• (v.) The region within which a plant or animal naturally lives.
• (v.) See Range of cable, below.
• (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.
• (n.) To place (as a single individual) among others in a line, row or order, as in the ranks of an army; -- usually, reflexively and figuratively, (in the sense) to espouse a cause, to join a party, etc.
• (v.) A place where shooting, as with cannons or rifles, is practiced.
• (n.) To rove over or through; as, to range the fields.
• (v.) A wandering or roving; a going to and fro; an excursion; a ramble; an expedition.
• (n.) To be native to or to live in; to frequent.
• (v.) That which may be ranged over; place or room for excursion; especially, a region of country in which cattle or sheep may wander and pasture.
• (v.i.) To have a certain direction; to correspond in direction; to be or keep in a corresponding line; to trend or run; -- often followed by with; as, the front of a house ranges with the street; to range along the coast.
• (n.) To separate into parts; to sift.
• (n.) To dispose in a classified or in systematic order; to arrange regularly; as, to range plants and animals in genera and species.
• (v.) A kitchen grate.
• (n.) 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 rank; as, to range soldiers in line.
• (v.i.) To be native to or live in, a certain district or region; as, the peba ranges from Texas to Paraguay.
• (v.) The step of a ladder; a rung.
• (n.) To sail or pass in a direction parallel to or near; as, to range the coast.
• (v.) An extended cooking apparatus of cast iron, set in brickwork, and affording conveniences for various ways of cooking; also, a kind of cooking stove.
• (v.) Extent or space taken in by anything excursive; compass or extent of excursion; reach; scope; discursive power; as, the range of one's voice or authority.
• (v.i.) To rove at large; to wander without restraint or direction; to roam.
• (v.i.) To have range; to change or differ within limits; to be capable of projecting or to admit of being projected, especially as to horizontal distance; as, the temperature ranged through seventy degrees Fahrenheit; the gun ranges three miles; the shot ranged four miles.
• (v.) A bolting sieve to sift meal.
• (v.) Sometimes, less properly, the trajectory of a shot or projectile.

(DoD) Extent or distance limiting the operation or action of something, such as the range of an aircraft, ship, or gun.
(DoD) The distance between any given point and an object or target.
(DoD) Area equipped for practice in shooting at targets. In this meaning, also called target range.
(DoD) The distance that can be covered over a hard surface by a ground vehicle, with its rated payload, using the fuel in its tank and its cans normally carried as part of the ground vehicle equipment.

1. A measure of the difference between the highest and lowest variates. (See variates) 2. A strip of land six miles wide, extending north and south and numbered east and west according to its distance from the principal meridian in the rectangular (government) survey system of legal description. For example,' range' 3 East would be a strip of land between 12 and 18 miles east of its principal meridian.