range vs snag

range

verb
  • To rove over or through. 

  • To bring (something) into a specified position or relationship (especially, of opposition) with something else. 

  • To classify. 

  • Of a variable, to be able to take any of the values in a specified range. 

  • To be native to, or live in, a certain district or region. 

  • To form a line or a row. 

  • To place among others in a line, row, or order, as in the ranks of an army; usually, reflexively and figuratively, to espouse a cause, to join a party, etc. 

  • To sail or pass in a direction parallel to or near. 

  • Of a player, to travel a significant distance for a defensive play. 

  • To determine the range to a target. 

  • To travel over (an area, etc); to roam, wander. 

  • 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 be placed in order; to be ranked; to admit of arrangement or classification; to rank. 

noun
  • A fireplace; a fire or other cooking apparatus; now specifically, a large cooking stove with many hotplates. 

  • An area for practicing shooting at targets. 

  • The extent or space taken in by anything excursive; compass or extent of excursion; reach; scope. 

  • An area of open, often unfenced, grazing land. 

  • The scale of all the tones a voice or an instrument can produce. 

  • The distance from a person or sensor to an object, target, emanation, or event. 

  • The length of the smallest interval which contains all the data in a sample; the difference between the largest and smallest observations in the sample. 

  • The geographical area or zone where a species is normally naturally found. 

  • A sequential list of values specified by an iterator. 

  • The maximum distance or reach of capability (of a weapon, radio, detector, etc.). 

  • The set of values (points) which a function can obtain. 

  • An area for military training or equipment testing. 

  • A wandering or roving; a going to and fro; an excursion; a ramble; an expedition. 

  • A line or series of mountains, buildings, etc. 

  • In the public land system, a row or line of townships lying between two succession meridian lines six miles apart. 

  • The distance a vehicle (e.g., a car, bicycle, lorry, or aircraft) can travel without refueling. 

  • Selection, array. 

  • The defensive area that a player can cover. 

  • An aggregate of individuals in one rank or degree; an order; a class. 

  • The variety of roles that an actor can play in a satisfactory way. 

snag

verb
  • To obtain or pick up. 

  • To damage or sink (a vessel) by collision; said of a tree or branch fixed to the bottom of a navigable body of water and partially submerged or rising to just beneath the surface. 

  • To cut the snags or branches from, as the stem of a tree; to hew roughly. 

  • To fish by means of dragging a large hook or hooks on a line, intending to impale the body (rather than the mouth) of the target. 

  • To catch or tear (e.g. fabric) upon a rough surface or projection. 

noun
  • A stump or base of a branch that has been lopped off; a short branch, or a sharp or rough branch. 

  • A sausage. 

  • A tooth projecting beyond the others; a broken or decayed tooth. 

  • A goal. 

  • A misnaged, an opponent to Chassidic Judaism (more likely modern, for cultural reasons). 

  • A problem or difficulty with something. 

  • A dead tree that remains standing. 

  • A tree, or a branch of a tree, fixed in the bottom of a river or other navigable water, and rising nearly or quite to the surface, by which boats are sometimes pierced and sunk. 

  • Any sharp protuberant part of an object, which may catch, scratch, or tear other objects brought into contact with it. 

  • A pulled thread or yarn, as in cloth. 

  • One of the secondary branches of an antler. 

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