ranger

From range (verb) +‎ -er.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɹeɪnd͡ʒə(ɹ)/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɹeɪnd͡ʒɚ/
• Rhymes: -eɪnd͡ʒə(ɹ)

ranger (plural rangers)

1. One who ranges; a rover.
   1. A roving robber; one who seeks plunder.
2. A keeper, guardian, or soldier who ranges over a region (generally of wilderness) to protect the area or enforce the law.
3. (obsolete) That which separates or arranges; a sieve.
   • 1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “(please specify |book=I to XXXVII)”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the World. Commonly Called, The Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. […], (please specify |tome=1 or 2), London: […] Adam Islip, published 1635, →OCLC:

     The tamis raunger.

4. A dog that beats the ground in search of game.
5. (military) In some modern armies, an elite soldier, similar to special forces but often operating in larger units.
6. (literature, roleplaying games) A warrior character, often with wilderness and stealth skill, who typically travels the countryside.
7. (roleplaying games) A character skilled in the use of ranged weapons.

ranger (third-person singular simple present rangers, present participle rangering, simple past and past participle rangered)

1. (rare, transitive) To work as a ranger.
   • 1993, Robert Kammen, Rattlers Roost, page 59:

     Just like down in Texas when I was rangering, you just keep turning over rocks […]

   • 2011, Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Dove:

     He saw men long dead whom he had rangered with, saw Pedro Flores and Pea Eye and a redheaded whore he had taken up with for a month in his riverboating days.

• Garner, Garren, Graner, garner

From rang.

• IPA^(key): /ʁɑ̃.ʒe/

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ranger

1. to order, to arrange
2. to put away, to put aside, to stack away, to stow
3. (transitive) to park (a car)
4. (reflexive, se ranger) to go along

   Elle s’est rangée à son avis.

   She went along with him.

This is a regular -er verb, but the stem is written range- before endings that begin with -a- or -o- (to indicate that the -g- is a "soft" /ʒ/ and not a "hard" /ɡ/). This spelling-change occurs in all verbs in -ger, such as neiger and manger.

• bataille rangée
• se ranger des bécanes
• se ranger des voitures

• “ranger”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From English.

• IPA^(key): /ʁɑ̃.d͡ʒœʁ/

ranger m or f (plural rangers)

1. a ranger, one who looks after a region

ranger

1. imperative of rangere

• rangir

• Hyphenation: ran‧ger

ranger (first-person singular present ranjo, first-person singular preterite rangi, past participle rangido)

1. (intransitive) to creak (to make a prolonged sharp squeaking sound)
   • 2012 (originally 2011), George R. R. Martin, Alexandre Martins (translator), Ruas Estranhas (originally Down these strange streets), Casa da Palavra, page 212:

     A maldita porta rangeu quando a abri.

     The damn door creaked when I opened it.

2. (transitive) to grind (one’s teeth)
   • 2012, Mary Bath-Balogh, Margareth J. Fehrenbach, Anatomia, Histologia e Embriologia dos Dentes e Estruturas Orofaciais, Elsevier, page 358:

     Em pacientes que apresentam o hábito de apertamento dental ou de ranger os dentes (bruxismo), […]

     In patients who exhibit the habit dental squeezing or of grinding their teeth (bruxism), […]

Unadapted borrowing from English ranger.

ranger m (plural rangeri)

1. ranger