ranging
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5.1
- adjective
- /ˈreɪnʤɪŋ/
- A comprehensive, wide-ranging plan for the kind of country we want to be.
Examples
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You will hear more details shortly about Tony's wide-ranging intellectual contributions.
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His interests are wide-ranging, from art and history to science and technology.
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So this course will be wide-ranging in that sense.
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But it's a pretty wide-ranging right wing site.
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This pattern of, of anxiety and this this wide-ranging worry about a range of issues.
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So without further ado, please enjoy my very, very wide-ranging conversation with Walter O'Brien.
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It shouldn't surprise us that Margot has a keen and far ranging appetite for learning and observation.
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But without further ado, please enjoy this very wide-ranging conversation with Doug McMillan.
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The wide-ranging discussions at the conference covered many important topics.
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The research team conducted wide-ranging interviews to gather diverse perspectives.
Synonyms
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1.3
Move around without a fixed direction, often slowly and in curves
206
2.5
Move around without a fixed place, often while looking for something
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4.1
Moving from place to place without a fixed home
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3.4
Traveling from place to place without a fixed place to go
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3.3
To move or travel freely over an area
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3.7
To move around without fences or other limits
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
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9.5
A method of finding where a sound comes from by measuring how long it takes to reach microphones
- Specialized
1
4.2
A system that finds distant objects like planes or ships by sending radio pulses and hearing echoes
- UK
A long straight pole with red and white bands used to mark positions when measuring land
How Wide
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Ranging comes from an old word for 'row' or 'line', the same idea you see in arrange and rank, and over time it came to mean moving across an area. So, to be ranging is to move or wander freely over a wide space.