run the gamut

run the gamut

To cover or extend across a wide and varied range. The tech company's products run the gamut from home appliances to computer modules for spacecraft.
See also: gamut, run
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

run the gamut

to cover a wide range [from one thing to another]. She wants to buy the house, but her requests run the gamut from expensive new carpeting to completely new landscaping. His hobbies run the gamut from piano repair to portrait painting.
See also: gamut, run
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.

run the gamut

Extend over an entire range, as in His music runs the gamut from rock to classical. This expression alludes to the medieval musical scale of Guido d'Arezzo, gamut being a contraction of gamma and ut, the lowest and highest notes respectively. [Mid-1800s]
See also: gamut, run
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.

run the gamut

experience, display, or perform the complete range of something.
Gamut is a contraction of medieval Latin gamma ut, gamma being the lowest note in the medieval musical scale and ut the first of the six notes forming a hexachord. Together, therefore, they represent the full range of notes of which a voice or an instrument is capable.
1996 Europe: Rough Guide Russia's hotels run the gamut from opulent citadels run as joint-ventures with foreign firms to seedy pits inhabited by mobsters.
See also: gamut, run
Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary

run the gamut, to

To extend over the entire range. The word gamut comes from Guido of Arezzo’s scale, a contraction of gamma, representing the lowest note of the medieval scale, G, and ut, the first note in any given scale (later called do). Acid-tongued Dorothy Parker was quoted as saying of actress Katharine Hepburn’s stage performance in The Lake (1933), “She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B”—that is, a very limited range of emotions.
See also: run
The Dictionary of Clichés by Christine Ammer
See also:
  • gamut
  • run the gamut, to
  • run the gamut of (something)
  • run the gamut of something
  • reach down
  • various and sundry
  • know about
  • know about (someone or something)
  • extend credit to
  • extend credit to (one)
References in periodicals archive
Illicit offerings run the gamut from code that buyers have to implement themselves to turnkey solutions and consulting services.
Some 87 baby quilt patterns and designs run the gamut from traditional to modern, while quilts for showers, holidays and more present projects that are relatively quick and easy to produce, from patchwork to applique.
They run the gamut from Indian and Latino street-food slinger Soul Cocina (pictured) to Pearl's Kitchen, with its sweet noodle kugel.
"Cooking often serves as an emotional barometer, and with this show we will run the gamut - from a solo dinner that suits melancholy to a homecoming feast for 20."
Objects sought run the gamut from steamer trunks to signs used in the miners' strike of 1913; the full list can be found at www.nps.gov/kewe/ parkmgmt/upload/artifact%20 site%20bulletin.pdf.
The seven finalists' renderings run the gamut from agricultural oasis, with copious flowers and greenery, to illuminated landscapes, complete with a long strip of lit structures.
Cooking often serves as an emotional barometer, and with this show we will run the gamut - from a solo dinner that suits melancholy, to a homecoming feast for 20; it's cooking with an anecdotal thread, irreverent, unpredictable and not without flaw."
For nearly two decades, this playful French-English ensemble has run the gamut of electronica, from bubblegum fun to artsy abstraction.
ATLANTA -- New products at the Atlanta International Gift & Home Furnishings Market here this week run the gamut from formal dinnerware collections to more whimsical designs and shapes.
Other items in the extensive line run the gamut from Samosa pastry snacks and Pakoras (fried dumplings) to Kachoris (fried pastries), Aloo Bonda (curried potato dumplings), Paneer Tikka (marinated cottage cheese), Dosas (savory crepes traditionally served in southern India with curried potatoes and lentil soups), and Mango Custard.
Explorer will run the gamut, with discussions ranging from those heavily covered by other media outlets to those only known by industry insiders.
Prestige Title has grown from three to 30 employees who cater to a nationwide clientele with services that run the gamut from foreclosure certificates and lien searches to 1031 exchanges and UCC (Uniform Commercial Code) insurance.
Musical dynamics give the movement its impetus, with elements that run the gamut from wicked humor to poignant drama.
The event's organizers expect "attendees [to] run the gamut from developers, finance specialists, community advocates and attorneys to real estate professionals, local and state government employees, academics, nonprofit organizations, and environmental engineers and consultants."
Much can be said for the present system in that it effectively requires the candidates to run the gamut of elections in both large and small states, both Northern and Southern states, both Western and Eastern states, both largely urban and largely rural states, both racially diverse states and racially uniform states, in an effort to win.