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ranging
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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | grazing |
| Synonyms: | feeding, pasturing |
| Main Entry: | ranging |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | moving over wide areas |
| Synonyms: | covering, extensive, roaming, roving, spanning, sweeping, traversing, widespread |
| Main Entry: | range |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | order, categorize |
| Synonyms: | align, allineate, arrange, array, assort, bias, bracket, catalogue, categorize, class, classify, dispose, draw up, file, grade, group, incline, line, line up, pigeonhole, predispose, rank |
| Antonyms: | disorder, disorganize |
| Main Entry: | range |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | wander, roam |
| Synonyms: | circumambulate, cover, cross, cruise, drift, encompass, explore, float, follow one's nose, gallivant, globe-trot, hit the road, hit the trail, make circuit, meander, pass over, ply, prowl, ramble, reach, reconnoiter, rove, scour, search, spread, straggle, stray, stroll, sweep, traipse, tramp, travel, traverse, trek |
| Antonyms: | be direct |
| Main Entry: | range |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | extend; change within limits |
| Synonyms: | differ, diverge from, fluctuate, go, reach, run, stretch, vary, vary between |
| Antonyms: | limit, restrict |
| Main Entry: | arrangement |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | something that has been ordered |
| Synonyms: | alignment, array, classification, combination, composition, design, display, disposition, distribution, form, grouping, lineup, method, ordering, organization, pattern, pecking order, ranging, rank, sequence, setup, structure, system |
| Main Entry: | errant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | wrong; deviant |
| Synonyms: | aberrant, deviating, devious, drifting, errable, erratic, erring, fallible, heretic, meandering, misbehaving, mischievous, miscreant, naughty, off straight and narrow, offending, rambling, ranging, roaming, roving, shifting, sinning, stray, straying, unorthodox, unreliable, wandering, wayward |
| Notes: | an errand is a short trip that is taken for a specific purpose; arrant means thoroughgoing - downright - out-and-out - extreme - notorious; errant means wandering or roving especially in search of adventure - deviating or straying from an appointed course - straying from the proper standards - moving aimlessly or irregularly |
| Antonyms: | correct, righteous |
| Main Entry: | itinerant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | roaming |
| Synonyms: | afoot, ambulant, ambulatory, floating, gypsy, journeying, migratory, moving, nomadic, on foot, peripatetic, ranging, riding the rails, roving, shifting, travelling, unsettled, vagabond, vagrant, wandering, wayfaring |
| Antonyms: | permanent, settled |
| Main Entry: | migrant/migratory |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | moving, traveling |
| Synonyms: | casual, changing, drifting, emigrating, errant, gypsy, immigrant, immigrating, impermanent, itinerant, migrative, migratorial, mobile, nomad, nomadic, on the move, passing over, passing through, peripatetic, ranging, roving, seasonal, shifting, temporary, tramp, transient, transmigratory, unsettled, vagabond, vagrant, wandering |
| Antonyms: | staying |
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