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the distance between where you start and where you finally give out
means The full extent or spread between two limits — of distance, ability, variation, or sound — or the open land where animals roam freely.
from From Old French 'range' or 'renge,' meaning a row, rank, or line, from the verb 'rengier' (to arrange in a row), itself built on 'reng' — a row of soldiers — which is a cousin of English 'ring.' So the root idea is things lined up in order. From 'a row' came 'the space something spans,' then 'the distance a weapon could reach,' then 'the open ground a herd wanders.' The kitchen 'range' too: once a row of cooking fires set in a line.
- kitchen origin
- stove called range because pots arranged in a row
- home on it
- buffalo and antelope famously decline to discourage you
- mountain logic
- peaks group into ranges, never lonely loners
- vocal flex
- Mariah Carey hits five octaves of it
- battery anxiety
- electric cars invented a whole fear around it
appalachian mountains — stretches 2,190 miles from newfoundland to alabama
rocky mountains — spans 3,000 miles from british columbia to new mexico
himalayas — contains mount everest at 29,032 feet, spans 1,500 miles across asia
rifles at gunsmith's bench — shooting range where firearms are zeroed at distances like 100-1000 yards