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lood: Owing to the rancour between them, the brothers had not
exchanged a word in forty years.
random adj. 1 haphazard, chance, fortuitous, serendipitous, aleatory,
arbitrary, casual, stray, occasional, indefinite,
indiscriminate, non-specific, unspecific, unspecified,
unordered, unorganized, undirected, unpremeditated, unplanned,
accidental, uncalculated, unsystematic, adventitious,
incidental, hit-or-miss: He used a computer program to generate
random numbers. A random selection of slips was drawn from the
drum and Madelaine's name was on one of them. 2 at random.
randomly, haphazardly, fortuitously, by chance, serendipitously,
arbitrarily, casually, occasionally, (every) now and then,
(every) once in a while, irregularly, indefinitely, erratically,
indiscriminately, unsystematically, adventitiously,
incidentally, unpremeditatedly: They picked names from a hat at
random. They drove up and down the road, firing at random.
randy adj. aroused, lustful, lecherous, Brit on heat or US in heat,
Brit in oestrus or US in estrus, Slang hot, horny, in rut,
rutting, at stud: Seeing Betty always made Len feel terribly
randy.
range n. 1 scope, sweep, reach, limit, extent, span, area, radius,
distance, compass, latitude, stretch, sphere, orbit: The gun
has a range of about 200 yards. This radio transmitter is
effective only within a thirty-mile range. The minister is
trying to broaden the range of his influence. 2 assortment,
series, collection, lot, spread, selection, choice, number,
variety, kind, sort, scale, gamut, register: The courses
offered cater to a wide range of interests. 3 rank, row, tier,
line, file, series, string, chain: From my window I could see
the range of hills stretching away into the distance. 4 kitchen
range, (cooking-) stove, Chiefly Brit cooker, Brit trade mark
Aga, US cook-stove: In every French farmhouse there was always
a pot of soup on the range.
--v. 5 line up, rank, order, align, order, array: The teacher
ranged the children according to their height. 6 vary,
fluctuate, spread, run the gamut, extend, stretch, run, go: The
students range in age from eight to eighty. 7 organize,
categorize, catalogue, arrange, classify, sort, class, group,
rank, bracket, pigeon-hole, file, index, break down, grade,