Difference between Distance and Range

What is the difference between Distance and Range?

Distance as a verb is to move away (from) someone or something. while Range as a verb is (followed by over) or to travel over (an area, etc) with a particular purpose.

Distance

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To move away (from) someone or something. To leave at a distance; to outpace, leave behind.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: The amount of space between two points, usually geographical points, usually (but not necessarily) measured along a straight line. The entire amount of space to the objective. A considerable amount of space.

Range

Part of speech: verb

Definition: (followed by over) or To travel over (an area, etc) with a particular purpose.(mathematics, computing; followed by over) Of a variable, to be able to take any of the values in a specified range.classify

Part of speech: noun

Definition: Line or series of mountains.Large fuel-burning stove.Selection, array. Eg: A range of cars.An area for practicing shooting at targets.# An area for military training or equipment testing.The distance from a person or sensor to an object, target, emanation, or event.# Maximum range of capability (of a weapon, radio, detector, fuel supply, etc.).An area of open, often unfenced, grazing land.The set of values (points) which a function can obtain.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 defensive area that a player can cover.Compass - The scale of all the tones a voice or an instrument can produce.The geographical area or zone where a species is normally naturally found.

Example sentence: The redwood is the glory of the Coast Range. It extends along the western slope, in a nearly continuous belt about ten miles wide, from beyond the Oregon boundary to the south of Santa Cruz, a distance of nearly four hundred miles, and in massive, sustained grandeur and closeness of growth surpasses all the other timber woods of the world.

We hope you now know whether to use Distance or Range in your sentence.

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