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rangest

rangest is the second-person singular simple present indicative of range.

rangest is the second-person singular simple past indicative of ring.

Meaning of range

Verb

range (third-person singular simple present ranges, present participle ranging, simple past and past participle ranged)

  1. (intransitive) To travel over (an area, etc); to roam, wander.
  2. (transitive) To rove over or through.
    • to range the fields
  3. (intransitive, obsolete) To exercise the power of something over something else; to cause to submit to, over.
    • The soule is variable in all manner of formes, and rangeth to her selfe, and to her estate, whatsoever it be, the senses of the body, and all other accidents.1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 40, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book I, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC
  4. (transitive) To bring (something) into a specified position or relationship (especially, of opposition) with something else.
    • At last we gained such an offing, that the two pilots were needed no longer. The stout sail-boat that had accompanied us began ranging alongside.1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “chapter 22”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC
  5. (intransitive) Of a variable, to be able to take any of the values in a specified range.
    • The variable x ranges over all real values from 0 to 10.
    Synonyms:
    run
  6. (transitive) To classify.
    • to range plants and animals in genera and species

See all 40 meanings of range

Meaning of ring

Verb

ring (third-person singular simple present rings, present participle ringing, simple past and past participle ringed)

  1. (transitive) To enclose or surround.
    • The inner city was ringed with dingy industrial areas.
  2. (figuratively, transitive) To make an incision around; to girdle; to cut away a circular tract of bark from a tree in order to kill it.
    • They ringed the trees to make the clearing easier next year.
  3. (transitive) To attach a ring to, especially for identification.
    • We managed to ring 22 birds this morning.
  4. (transitive) To surround or fit with a ring, or as if with a ring.
    • to ring a pig’s snout
  5. To rise in the air spirally.
    • […] how he rung upon the rein of a wimpling wing / In his ecstacy!1877 May 30, Gerard Manley Hopkins, “The Windhover: To Christ Our Lord”, in Robert Bridges, editor, Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins: Now First Published […], London: Humphrey Milford, published 1918...
  6. (transitive) To steal and change the identity of (cars) in order to resell them.
    • A. Woodley, Trio: 3 short stories
      Gabe said that as Derry had only caught part of the conversation, it's possible that they were discussing a film, it was bad enough that they'd unwittingly been brought into ringing cars, adding drugs into it was far more than either of them could ever be...

See all 54 meanings of ring

Origin of rangest

range + -est

rang + -est

Questions about rangest

What is rangest the second-person singular simple present indicative of?
Rangest is the second-person singular simple present indicative of range.

Words near rangest in the dictionary

  1. rangership
  2. rangerships
  3. ranges
  4. ranges of motion
  5. ranges of travel
  6. rangest
  7. rangeth
  8. rangette
  9. rangettes
  10. rangewide
  11. rangework

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Adapted from Wiktionary: rangest (page history and authors); range (page history and authors); ring (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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