| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | 1. The ability or power to seize or attain: capacity, compass, grasp, reach, scope. See ABILITY. 2. The extent of one's perception, understanding, knowledge, or vision: horizon, ken, purview, reach, scope. See ABILITY, KNOWLEDGE, SEE. 3. Approximate size or amount: vicinity. Informal : neighborhood. See NEAR. 4. An area within which something or someone exists, acts, or has influence or power: ambit, compass, extension, extent, orbit, purview, reach, realm, scope, sphere, sweep, swing. See TERRITORY. | | VERB: | 1. To put into a deliberate order: arrange, array, deploy, dispose, marshal, order, organize, sort, systematize. See ORDER. 2. To assign to a class or classes: categorize, class, classify, distribute, grade, group, pigeonhole, place, rank1, rate1. See GROUP, VALUE. 3. To change or fluctuate within limits: extend, go, run, vary. See CHANGE. 4. To place in or form a line or lines: align, line (up). See ORDER. 5. To move about at random, especially over a wide area: drift, gad, gallivant, meander, peregrinate, ramble, roam, rove, stray, traipse, wander. See MOVE.
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