Difference between Range and Run

What is the difference between Range and Run?

Range as a verb is (followed by over) or to travel over (an area, etc) with a particular purpose. while Run as a verb is to move forward quickly upon two feet by alternately making a short jump off of either foot, compare: walk.

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: Every word or concept, clear as it may seem to be, has only a limited range of applicability.

Run

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: In a liquid state; melted; molten.Exhausted; depleted (especially with "down" or "out".)

Part of speech: noun

Definition: The act of running.The route taken while running.A flow of liquid; a leak.A small creek or part thereof.The amount of something made.The top of a step on a staircase, also called a tread, as opposed to the rise.A production quantity in a factory.A pace faster than a walk.A fast gallop.An interval of distance or time, a period marked by a continuing trend.A series of tries in a game that were successful.A regular trip or route.A standard or unexceptional group or category.An enclosure for an animal; a track or path along which something can travel.An errand or the journey associated with an errand.A pleasure trip.A single trip down a hill, as in skiing and bobsledding.A point scored in baseball and cricket.A rapid passage in music, especially along a scale.A sequence of cards in a suit in a card game.A sudden series of demands on a bank or other financial institution, especially characterised by great withdrawals.Any sudden large demand for something.Unrestricted use of an area.Stockings with a run in them (sense 24) A line of knit stitches that has unravelled, particularly in a nylon stocking.The stern of the underwater body of a ship from where it begins to curve upward and inward.horizontal dimension of a slope.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To move forward quickly upon two feet by alternately making a short jump off of either foot, compare: walk.To go at a fast pace, to move quickly.To move or spread quickly.To cause to move quickly; to make move lightly.To control or manage, be in charge of.Of a liquid, to flow.Of an object, to have a liquid flowing from it.To make a liquid flow; to make liquid flow from an object.To extend in space or through a range of possibilities (often with a measure phrase).To extend in time, to last, to continue (usually with a measure phrase).To make something extend in space.Of a machine, including computer programs, to be operating or working normally.To make a machine operate.To execute or carry out a plan, procedure or program.To compete in a race.To be a candidate in an election.To make run in a race or an election.To be offered in one of the media.To print or broadcast in the media.To leak or spread in an undesirable fashion , to bleed (especially used of dye or paint).To become different in a way mentioned (usually to become worse).To go through without stopping, usually illegally.To transport someone or something.To smuggle illegal goods.To cost a large amount of money.Of fish, to migrate for spawning.To carry a football down the field.Of stitches, to unravel.To flee away from a danger or towards help.To sort through a large volume of produce in quality control.To control or have precedence in a card game.To run.

Example sentence: The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples' money.

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

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