n. (cricket) the period during which a given number of balls (6 in England but 8 in Australia) are bowled at the batsman by one player from the other team from the same end of the pitch

n. 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"

n. a large tract of grassy open land on which livestock can graze; "they used to drive the cattle across the open range every spring"; "he dreamed of a home on the range"

n. the limits within which something can be effective; "range of motion"; "he was beyond the reach of their fire"

n. the limits within which something can be effective; "range of motion"; "he was beyond the reach of their fire"

n. a sentence of inquiry that asks for a reply; "he asked a direct question"; "he had trouble phrasing his interrogations"

n. a kitchen appliance used for cooking food; "dinner was already on the stove"

n. the limit of capability; "within the compass of education"

n. a series of hills or mountains; "the valley was between two ranges of hills"; "the plains lay just beyond the mountain range"

n. an area in which something acts or operates or has power or control: "the range of a supersonic jet"; "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"

v. have a range; be capable of projecting over a certain distance, as of a gun; "This gun ranges over two miles"

v. let feed in a field or pasture or meadow

v. change or be different within limits; "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"

v. lay out orderly or logically in a line or as if in a line; "lay out the clothes"; "lay out the arguments"

v. range or extend over; occupy a certain area; "The plants straddle the entire state"

v. feed as in a meadow or pasture; "the herd was grazing"

v. assign a rank or rating to; "how would you rank these students?"; "The restaurant is rated highly in the food guide"

v. move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment; "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"

adv. at or to a point across intervening space etc.: "Come over and see us some time"; "over there"

adv. "He is known the world over"

adv. "She cannot get her ideas across"

adv. "Stay over the weekend"

adj. (prefix) excessive: "over-abusive"; "overabusive"

adj. having come or been brought to a conclusion; "the harvesting was complete"; "the affair is over, ended, finished"; "the abruptly terminated interview"

n. a structure that allows people or vehicles to cross an obstacle such as a river or canal or railway etc.

n. a wide and open space or area as of surface or land or sky

n. a field where grass or alfalfa are grown to be made into hay

n. a field covered with grass or herbage and suitable for grazing by livestock

n. a treeless grassy plain

n. a distant region; "I could see it in the distance"

n. the geographical area in which one nation is very influential

n. people having the same social or economic status; "the working class"; "an emerging professional class"

n. a distant region; "I could see it in the distance"

n. any number of entities (members) considered as a unit

n. (chemistry) two or more atoms bound together as a single unit and forming part of a molecule

n. a wide and open space or area as of surface or land or sky

n. the property possessed by a large mass

n. the property of something that is great in magnitude; "it is cheaper to buy it in bulk"; "he received a mass of correspondence"; "the volume of exports"

n. the extent of a 2-dimensional surface enclosed within a boundary; "the area of a rectangle"; "it was about 500 square feet in area"

n. the property of relative size or extent (whether large or small); "they tried to predict the magnitude of the explosion"; "about the magnitude of a small pea"

n. a particular environment or walk of life; "his social sphere is limited"; "it was a closed area of employment"; "he's out of my orbit"

n. greatness of magnitude

n. a degree in a continuum of size or quantity; "it was on the order of a mile"; "an explosion of a low order of magnitude"

n. the extent of something from side to side

v. put on special clothes to appear particularly appealing and attractive; "She never dresses up, even when she goes to the opera"; "The young girls were all fancied up for the party"

v. decorate (food), as with parsley or other ornamental foods

v. make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc.; "Decorate the room for the party"; "beautify yourself for the special day"

v. decorate; "deck the halls with holly"

v. stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point; "Service runs all the way to Cranbury"; "His knowledge doesn't go very far"; "My memory extends back to my fourth year of life"; "The facts extend beyond a consideration of her personal assets"

v. give food to; "Feed the starving children in India"; "don't give the child this tough meat"

v. wander and feed; "The animals forage in the woods"

v. arrange or order by classes or categories; "How would you classify these pottery shards--are they prehistoric?"

v. organize into a code or system, such as a body of law; "Hammurabi codified the laws"

v. deem to be; "She views this quite differently from me"; "I consider her to be shallow"; "I don't see the situation quite as negatively as you do"

v. feel admiration for

v. bestow honor or rewards upon; "Today we honor our soldiers"; "The scout was rewarded for courageous action"

v. regard with feelings of respect and reverence; consider hallowed or exalted or be in awe of; "Fear God as your father"; "We venerate genius"

v. issue a decree; "The King only can decree"

v. announce publicly or officially; "The President declared war"

v. pronounce judgment on; "They labeled him unfit to work here"

v. lose clarity or turn aside especially from the main subject of attention or course of argument in writing, thinking, or speaking; "She always digresses when telling a story"; "her mind wanders"; "Don't digress when you give a lecture"

v. cause to become widely known; "spread information"; "circulate a rumor"; "broadcast the news"

v. reach a destination, either real or abstract; "We hit Detroit by noon"; "The water reached the doorstep"; "We barely made it to the finish line"; "I have to hit the MAC machine before the weekend starts"

v. turn aside; turn away from

v. walk a long way, as for pleasure or physical exercise; "We were hiking in Colorado"; "hike the Rockies"

v. walk or tramp about

v. turn from a straight course , fixed direction, or line of interest

v. turn in the opposite direction; "twist one's head"

v. walk leisurely

v. take a walk

v. walk leisurely and with no apparent aim

v. travel on foot, especially on a walking expedition; "We went tramping about the state of Colorado"

v. cause to separate; "break up kidney stones"; "disperse particles"

v. wander from a direct or straight course

v. move or draw apart; "The two paths diverge here"

v. go trekking

adj. settled securely and unconditionally; "that smoking causes health problems is an accomplished fact"

adj. established beyond doubt; "a proven liar"; "a Soviet leader of proven shrewdness"

adj. precisely determined or limited or defined; especially fixed by rule or by a specific and constant cause; "a determinate distance"; "a determinate number"; "determinate variations in animals"

adj. constituted or contracted by stipulation or agreement; "stipulatory obligations"

adj. explained or answered; "mysteries solved and unsolved; problems resolved and unresolved"

v. span an interval of distance, space or time; "The war extended over five years"; "The period covered the turn of the century"; "My land extends over the hills on the horizon"; "This farm covers some 200 acres"; "The Archipelago continues for another 500 miles"

v. group with

adj. (informal) "a bit much"

adj. represented as greater than is true or reasonable; "an exaggerated opinion of oneself"

adj. beyond normal limits; "excessive charges"; "a book of inordinate length"; "his dress stops just short of undue elegance"; "unreasonable demands"

adj. greatly exceeding bounds of reason or moderation; "exorbitant rent"; "extortionate prices"; "spends an outrageous amount on entertainment"; "usurious interest rate"; "unconscionable spending"

adj. beyond a norm in views or actions; "an extreme conservative"; "an extreme liberal"; "extreme views on integration"; "extreme opinions"

adj. (used of opinions and actions) far beyond the norm; "extremist political views"; "radical opinions on education"; "an ultra conservative"

adj. far exceeding the normal: "a glaring error"; "gross inefficiency"

adj. having finished or arrived at completion; "certain to make history before he's done"; "it's a done deed"; "after the treatment, the patient is through except for follow-up"; "almost through with his studies"

adj. having no further concern with; "he was through with school and he was through with family"- John Dos Passos; "done with gambling"; "done with drinking"

adj. used up; "time is up"

n. the set of values of the independent variable for which a function is defined

v. destroy the arrangement or order of; "My son disarranged the papers on my desk"