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What is the verb for range?

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range
  1. (intransitive) To travel over (an area, etc); to roam, wander. [from 15th c.]
  2. (transitive) To rove over or through.
  3. (obsolete, intransitive) To exercise the power of something over something else; to cause to submit to, over. [16th-19th c.]
  4. (transitive) To bring (something) into a specified position or relationship (especially, of opposition) with something else. [from 16th c.]
  5. (mathematics) Of a variable, to be able to take any of the values in a specified range.
  6. (transitive) To classify.
  7. (intransitive) To form a line or a row.
  8. (intransitive) To be placed in order; to be ranked; to admit of arrangement or classification; to rank.
  9. (transitive) To set in a row, or in rows; to place in a regular line or lines, or in ranks; to dispose in the proper order.
  10. (transitive) To place among others in a line, row, or order, as in the ranks of an army; usually, reflexively and figuratively, to espouse a cause, to join a party, etc.
  11. (biology) To be native to, or live in, a certain district or region.
  12. To separate into parts; to sift.
  13. To sail or pass in a direction parallel to or near.
  14. (baseball) Of a player, to travel a significant distance for a defensive play.
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  16. Examples:
    1. “The colors of a chameleon can range anywhere from pink to turquoise.”
      “Treasure hunters would range the valley in search of gold.”
      “Explorers regularly range the plants and animals they encounter according to genera and species.”
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  1. (archaic) third-person singular simple present indicative form of range
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