Index of English words, starting with "ra"

(1) - Range (v.) The step of a ladder; a rung.
(2) - Range (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.
(3) - Range (n.) To separate into parts; to sift.
(4) - Range (n.) To dispose in a classified or in systematic order; to arrange regularly; as, to range plants and animals in genera and species.
(5) - Range (n.) To rove over or through; as, to range the fields.
(6) - Range (n.) To sail or pass in a direction parallel to or near; as, to range the coast.
(7) - Range (n.) To be native to, or to live in; to frequent.
(8) - Range (v. i.) To rove at large; to wander without restraint or direction; to roam.
(9) - Range (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.
(10) - Range (v. i.) To be placed in order; to be ranked; to admit of arrangement or classification; to rank.
(11) - Range (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.
(12) - Range (v. i.) To be native to, or live in, a certain district or region; as, the peba ranges from Texas to Paraguay.
(13) - Range (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.
(14) - Range (v.) An aggregate of individuals in one rank or degree; an order; a class.
(15) - Range (v.) See Range of cable, below.
(16) - Range (v.) A kitchen grate.
(17) - Range (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.
(18) - Range (v.) A bolting sieve to sift meal.
(19) - Range (v.) A wandering or roving; a going to and fro; an excursion; a ramble; an expedition.
(20) - Range (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.
(21) - Range (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.
(22) - Range (v.) The region within which a plant or animal naturally lives.
(23) - Range (v.) The horizontal distance to which a shot or other projectile is carried.
(24) - Range (v.) Sometimes, less properly, the trajectory of a shot or projectile.
(25) - Range (v.) A place where shooting, as with cannons or rifles, is practiced.
(26) - 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.
(27) - Range (v.) A series of things in a line; a row; a rank; as, a range of buildings; a range of mountains.

(1) - Ranger (n.) The keeper of a public park or forest; formerly, a sworn officer of a forest, appointed by the king's letters patent, whose business was to walk through the forest, recover beasts that had strayed beyond its limits, watch the deer, present trespasses to the next court held for the forest, etc.
(2) - Ranger (n.) One of a body of mounted troops, formerly armed with short muskets, who range over the country, and often fight on foot.
(3) - Ranger (n.) A dog that beats the ground in search of game.
(4) - Ranger (n.) That which separates or arranges; specifically, a sieve.
(5) - Ranger (n.) One who ranges; a rover; sometimes, one who ranges for plunder; a roving robber.

(1) - Rani (n.) A queen or princess; the wife of a rajah.