1. Totalité des petits que les femelles des animaux quadrupèdes portent et mettent bas en une fois.
2. Ensemble de cinq lignes horizontales sur lesquelles et entre lesquelles on écrit la musique.
3. Distance maximum pouvant être atteinte. Portée d'un canon, d'un fusil.
4. Distance que la voix peut couvrir. Rester ŕ portée de voix.
5. Proximité. Avoir qqch. ŕ portée de la main.
6. (Au figuré) Conséquences possibles d'une action. Événement d'une portée considérable.
ETYM From Range: cf. French rangée.
1. The limits within which something can be effective; SYN. reach.
2. The limits of the values a function can take.<br />
3. A variety of different things or activities.
4. A place for shooting (firing or driving) projectiles of various kinds.
5. A series of hills or mountains; SYN. mountain range, range of mountains, chain, mountain chain, chain of mountains.
6. A large tract of grassy open land on which livestock can graze.
(Irregular plural: reaches).
The act of physically reaching or thrusting out; SYN. reaching, stretch.
ETYM Italian scopo, Latin scopos a mark, aim, Greek skopos, a watcher, mark, aim; akin to skopein to view, and perh. to Eng. spy. Related to Skeptic, Bishop.
An area in which something acts or operates or has power or control; SYN. range, reach, orbit, compass, ambit.
ETYM French litičre, Late Lat. lectaria, from Latin lectus couch, bed. Related to Lie to be prostrated, and cf. Coverlet.
1. A chair or bed carried on two poles by bearers.
2. Rubbish carelessly dropped or left about (especially in public places).
3. The offspring at one birth of a multiparous mammal.
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