Range and Float

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.

• (v.i.) A quantity of earth, eighteen feet square and one foot deep.
• (n.) To rest on the surface of any fluid; to swim; to be buoyed up.
• (v.t.) To pass over and level the surface of with a float while the plastering is kept wet.
• (v.i.) The act of flowing; flux; flow.
• (v.t.) To cause to float; to cause to rest or move on the surface of a fluid; as, the tide floated the ship into the harbor.
• (v.i.) The hollow, metallic ball of a self-acting faucet, which floats upon the water in a cistern or boiler.
• (v.i.) A coal cart.
• (v.i.) A mass of timber or boards fastened together, and conveyed down a stream by the current; a raft.
• (v.t.) To support and sustain the credit of, as a commercial scheme or a joint-stock company, so as to enable it to go into or continue in, operation.
• (v.i.) The cork or quill used in angling, to support the bait line, and indicate the bite of a fish.
• (v.i.) Anything used to buoy up whatever is liable to sink; an inflated bag or pillow used by persons learning to swim; a life preserver.
• (v.i.) A single-cut file for smoothing; a tool used by shoemakers for rasping off pegs inside a shoe.
• (n.) To move quietly or gently on the water, as a raft; to drift along; to move or glide without effort or impulse on the surface of a fluid or through the air.
• (v.i.) The trowel or tool with which the floated coat of plastering is leveled and smoothed.
• (v.t.) To flood; to overflow; to cover with water.
• (v.i.) A polishing block used in marble working; a runner.
• (v.i.) Anything which floats or rests on the surface of a fluid, as to sustain weight or to indicate the height of the surface or mark the place of, something.
• (v.i.) A float board. See Float board (below).
• (v.i.) The sea; a wave. See Flote, n.
• (v.i.) A contrivance for affording a copious stream of water to the heated surface of an object of large bulk, as an anvil or die.

noun

• The time interval between the deposit of a check in a bank and its payment.
• The number of shares outstanding and available for trading by the public.
• A drink with ice cream floating in it.
  • synonyms: ice-cream soda, ice-cream float
• An elaborate display mounted on a platform carried by a truck (or pulled by a truck) in a procession or parade.
• A hand tool with a flat face used for smoothing and finishing the surface of plaster or cement or stucco.
  • synonyms: plasterer's float
• Something that floats on the surface of water.
• An air-filled sac near the spinal column in many fishes that helps maintain buoyancy.
  • synonyms: air bladder, swim bladder

verb

• Be in motion due to some air or water current.
  • usage: "The leaves were blowing in the wind"; "the boat drifted on the lake"; "The sailboat was adrift on the open sea"; "the shipwrecked boat drifted away from the shore"
  • synonyms: drift, be adrift, blow
• Be afloat either on or below a liquid surface and not sink to the bottom.
  • synonyms: swim
• Set afloat.
  • usage: "He floated the logs down the river"; "The boy floated his toy boat on the pond"
• Circulate or discuss tentatively; test the waters with.
  • usage: "The Republicans are floating the idea of a tax reform"
• Move lightly, as if suspended.
  • usage: "The dancer floated across the stage"
• Put into the water.
  • usage: "float a ship"
• Make the surface of level or smooth.
  • usage: "float the plaster"
• Allow (currencies) to fluctuate.
  • usage: "The government floated the ruble for a few months"
• Convert from a fixed point notation to a floating point notation.
  • usage: "float data"

In investment terms, a' Float' is the number of outstanding shares a corporation has available for trading. If there is a small float, stock prices tend to be volatile, since one large trade could significantly affect the availability-and therefore the price-of these stocks. If there is a large float, stock prices tend to be more stable. In banking, the float is the time that elapses from the time you write a check until it clears your account. The same term also refers to the time lag between your depositing a check in the bank and the day the funds become available for use. For example, if you deposit a check on Monday, and you can withdraw the cash on Friday, the float is four days. When you write a check, the float works to your advantage. When you deposit a check, the float works to the bank's advantage.