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noun
- Line or series of mountains.
- Large fuel-burning stove.
- Selection, array. Eg: A range of cars.
- Area used for shooting, artillery, etc.
- An area of open, often unfenced, grazing land.
- (mathematics) The set of values (points) which a function can obtain.
- (statistics) The length of the smallest interval which contains all the data. It is calculated by subtracting the smallest observations from the greatest.
- The distance to a target, or to the subject of discussion.
- We could see the ship at a range of five miles.
- (sports) (baseball) The defensive area that a player can cover.
- Jones has good for a big man.
- (music) Compass - The scale of all the tones a voice or an instrument can produce.
- (ecology) The geographical area or zone where a species is normally naturally found.
verb (ranges, ranging, ranged)
- (intransitive) (followed by over) To travel over (an area, etc) with a particular purpose.
- (intransitive) (mathematics, computing; followed by over) Of a variable, to be able to take any of the values in a specified range.
- The variable x ranges over all real values from 0 to 10.
- (transitive) classify
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abbreviation
- road
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noun
- A warning light, especially as a traffic signal indicating "stop".
- We ran three red lights on the way to the hospital.
- A sign of a brothel.
- 1978: Roxanne, you don't have to put on your . " Sting, "Roxanne"
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noun
- Short form of jinriksha.
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noun
- (nautical) The arrangement of masts, spars, and sails on a sailing vessel.
- special, Special equipment or gear used for a particular purpose.
- A truck or tractor.
- The special apparatus used for drilling oil wells.
- (informal) A costume or an outfit.
- (computing) (slang) Computer case, often modified for looks.
- an imperfectly castrated horse, sheep etc.
verb to rig
- (transitive) To fit out with a harness or other equipment.
- (transitive) (nautical) To equip and fit a ship with sails, shrouds, and yards.
- (transitive) (informal) To dress or clothe in some costume.
- (transitive) To make or construct something in haste or in a makeshift manner.
- (transitive) To manipulate something dishonestly for personal gain.
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noun (Plural: roadbeds)
- The prepared location for a road, including its foundation.
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noun - A way used as a road.
- The main or central portion of a road.
- The portion of a bridge or railway used by traffic.
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noun
- The act of rolling, or state of being rolled.
- the roll of a ball
- the roll of waves
- That which rolls; a roller
- Specifically, a heavy cylinder used to break clods.
- Specifically, one of a set of revolving cylinders, or rollers, between which metal is pressed, formed, or smoothed, as in a rolling mill; as, to pass rails through the rolls.
- That which is rolled up; as, a roll of fat, of wool, paper, cloth, etc.
- Specifically, a document written on a piece of parchment, paper, or other materials which may be rolled up; a scroll.
- Hence, an official or public document; a register; a record; also, a catalogue; a list.
- Specifically, a quantity of cloth wound into a cylindrical form; as, a roll of carpeting; a roll of ribbon.
- Specifically, A cylindrical twist of tobacco.
- A kind of shortened raised biscuit or bread, often rolled or doubled upon itself.
- (nautical) The oscillating movement of a vessel from side to side, in sea way, as distinguished from the alternate rise and fall of bow and stern called pitching.
- A heavy, reverberatory sound.
- the roll of cannon
- the roll of thunder
- The uniform beating of a drum with strokes so rapid as scarcely to be distinguished by the ear.
- (obsolete) Part; office; duty; rí´le.
- A measure of parchments, containing five dozen.
- Quotations
- 1882: Parchement is sold by the dozen, and by the roll of five dozens. — James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, Volume 4, p. 594.
- the rotation angle about the longitudinal axis
- the roll of an aircraft
- The act of, or total resulting from, rolling one or more dice.
- Make your roll.
- Whoever gets the highest moves first.
- (nautical) The measure of extent to which a nautical vessel rotates on its fore-and-aft axis, causing its sides to go up and down. Compare with pitch.
verb
- (ergative) To cause to revolve by turning over and over; to move by turning on an axis; to impel forward by causing to turn over and over on a supporting surface.
- roll a wheel, a ball, or a barrel
- To wrap round on itself; to form into a spherical or cylindrical body by causing to turn over and over.
- roll a sheet of paper
- roll clay or putty into a ball''
- To bind or involve by winding, as in a bandage; to inwrap; often with up
- roll up a parcel
- (ergative) To drive or impel forward with an easy motion, as of rolling.
- a river rolls its waters to the ocean
- (ergative) To utter copiously, especially with sounding words; to utter with a deep sound; -- often with forth, or out.
- roll forth someone's praises
- roll out sentences
- To press or level with a roller; to spread or form with a roll, roller, or rollers.
- roll a field
- roll paste
- roll steel rails
- (ergative) To move, or cause to be moved, upon, or by means of, rollers or small wheels.
- To beat with rapid, continuous strokes, as a drum; to sound a roll upon.
- (geometry) To apply (one line or surface) to another without slipping; to bring all the parts of (one line or surface) into successive contact with another, in such a manner that at every instant the parts that have been in contact are equal.
- To turn over in one's mind; to revolve.
- (US slang) A manner of behaving or a way of doing certain things; a general disposition toward a situation.
- I was going to kick his ass, but he wasn't worth getting all worked up over, I don't like that.
- 2006, Times Herald-Record, Tuesday, November 21, by Chris McKenna?. At http://www.recordonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061121/NEWS/611210321.
- :"This is how we in Spring Valley," one teen reportedly boasted.
- (transitive or intransitive) To throw dice.
- (transitive) To roll dice such that they form a given pattern or total.
- If you doubles, you get an extra turn.
- With two dice, you're more likely to seven than ten.
- To turn over and over.
- The child rolled on the floor.
- To tumble in gymnastics.
- (nautical) when a nautical vessel rotates on its fore-and-aft axis, causing its sides to go up and down. Compare with pitch.
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noun (Plural: rumbles)
- A low pitched irregular noise.
- The from passing trucks made it hard to sleep at night.
- (slang) A street fight or brawl.
verb
- To make a low pitched noise.
- I better eat or my stomach's gonna .
- To discover deceitful or underhanded behaviour
- The police is gonna your hideout.
- To move while making a rumbling noise.
- The truck rumbled over the rough road.
- (slang)fight, brawl.
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noun
- somebody who runs
- (slang) A quick escape away from a scene
- He did a runner after robbing the drugstore
- a type of soft-soled shoe originally intended for runners, cf trainer; a sneaker
- a part of an apparatus that moves quickly
- After the cycle completes, the travels back quickly to be in place for the next cycle.
- a mechanical part intended for wheels to run on or to slide against another surface.
- a strip of fabric used to decorate a table
- The red makes the table so festive.
- a protective carpet cover for a high traffic area
- How about we put down a clear in the front hall.
- (scuffleball) a forward playing position
- (cricket) a player who runs for a batsman who is too injured to run; he is dressed exactly as the injured batsman, and carries a bat
- (baseball) A player who runs the bases
- (aussie-rules) A person (from one or the other team) who runs out onto the field during the game to take verbal instructions from the coach to the players. A runner mustn't interfere with play, and may have to wear an identifying shirt to make clear his or her purpose on the field.
- The was out at second.
- (slang) A part of a cigarette that is burning unevenly.
- (botany) a long stolon sent out by a plant (such as strawberry), in order to root new plantlets.
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noun
- an airstrip, a (usually) paved section on which planes land or take off
- a narrow platform extending from a stage on which people walk, especially used by models in fashion shows
- the usual path taken by deer or other wild animals, i.e. from the forest to the stream
- a stream bed
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