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▪ I. ranging, vbl. n.|ˈreɪndʒɪŋ|
[f. range v.1]
1. The action of the vb.a. in transitive senses; spec. the action of measuring the distance to an object by radar or other means.
1622Markham Decades War iv. ix. 155 These Corporals haue the raunging of Battels. 1710Addison Whig Exam. No. 4 When an author..imposes upon us by the sound and ranging of his words. 1846Trench Mirac. xviii. (1862) 313 A ranging of men in their true ranks. 1919Sci. Amer. 17 May 511/3 Sound-ranging is a vast improvement [for]..locating hostile points of fire. 1946Jrnl. Inst. Electr. Engineers XCIII. i. 378/2 The foundation for precision radar ranging in fire control was firmly laid in 1938. 1965Filipowsky & Muehldorf Space Communications Techniques ii. 136 The reference frequency of 292/3 or 32 Mc is transmitted..over the microwave link to the receiver where the ranging equipment is situated. 1970Nature 12 Dec. 1024/2 The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory has..smaller instruments for satellite ranging.
b. in intransitive senses.
c1610Women Saints 38 After many perills and long ranging..they arriued at Colen. 1651Hobbes Leviath. i. iii. 9 This wild ranging of the mind. 1719D'Urfey Pills (1872) VI. 44 Cupid it is my Name, I live by ranging. 1862Catal. Internat. Exhib. II. xxviii. 123 Their inequality of size and consequent irregularity of ranging. 1890H. H. Dogs for Gun iii. i. 80, I have seen four months' old pups go in for ranging.
2. attrib. and Comb., as ranging company, † ranging wise; ranging-lath, a lath employed to guide the tool in cutting glass; ranging-line, -pole, -rod, -stick, a line, pole, etc. used in surveying or measuring, for setting out straight lines; ranging-timber (?).
1779L. McIntosh in Sparks Corr. Amer. Rev. (1853) II. 285, I..authorized the Lieutenants to raise a *ranging company.
1825J. Nicholson Operat. Mechanic 636 The *ranging lath must be long enough to extend rather beyond the boundary of the table of glass.
1712J. James tr. Le Blond's Gardening 82 The Legs and *Ranging-sticks are tied up together in a Bundle.
1796Morse Amer. Geog. I. 394 Ship timber, *ranging timber, plank, deals.
1563–87Foxe A. & M. (1596) 92/2 Neither yet in *ranging wise wander the starres to what place of the world they list.
▪ II. ranging, ppl. a.|ˈreɪndʒɪŋ|
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That ranges, in senses of the vb.
1559Mirr. Mag., Dk. Clarence xxix, A raynles ranging horse. 1560A. L. tr. Calvin's Foure Serm. Songe Ezech. iv. 62 Though we haue many ranging woordes in our prayer. 1655Sir E. Nicholas in N. Papers (Camden) II. 337 Only fit for one of..his ranging spaniells to finde where the game lyes. 1700Prior Carm. Sec. xvii, She thro' the ranging Ocean now Views him advancing his auspicious Prow. 1887Bowen Virg. æneid vi. 161 Many the troubled thoughts that in ranging talk they pursue. |