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row
1[ roh ]
noun
- a number of persons or things arranged in a line, especially a straight line:
a row of apple trees.
- a line of persons or things so arranged:
The petitioners waited in a row.
- a line of adjacent seats facing the same way, as in a theater:
seats in the third row of the balcony.
- a street formed by two continuous lines of buildings.
- Music. tone row.
- Checkers. one of the horizontal lines of squares on a checkerboard; rank.
verb (used with object)
- to put in a row (often followed by up ).
row
2[ roh ]
verb (used without object)
- to propel a vessel by the leverage of an oar or the like.
verb (used with object)
- to propel (a vessel) by the leverage of an oar or the like.
- to convey in a boat that is rowed.
- to convey or propel (something) in a manner suggestive of rowing.
- to require, use, or be equipped with (a number of oars):
The captain's barge rowed twenty oars.
- to use (oarsmen) for rowing.
- to perform or participate in by rowing:
to row a race.
- to row against in a race:
Oxford rows Cambridge.
noun
- an act, instance, or period of rowing:
It was a long row to the far bank.
- an excursion in a rowboat:
to go for a row.
row
1/ əʊ /
noun
- an arrangement of persons or things in a line
a row of chairs
- a street, esp a narrow one lined with identical houses
- ( capital when part of a street name )
Church Row
- a line of seats, as in a cinema, theatre, etc
- maths a horizontal linear arrangement of numbers, quantities, or terms, esp in a determinant or matrix
- a horizontal rank of squares on a chessboard or draughtboard
- in a rowin succession; one after the other
he won two gold medals in a row
- a hard row to hoea difficult task or assignment
row
2/ ʊ /
noun
- a noisy quarrel or dispute
- a noisy disturbance; commotion
we couldn't hear the music for the row next door
- a reprimand
- give someone a row informal.to scold someone; tell someone off
verb
- introften foll bywith to quarrel noisily
- archaic.tr to reprimand
row
3/ əʊ /
verb
- to propel (a boat) by using oars
- tr to carry (people, goods, etc) in a rowing boat
- to be propelled by means of (oars or oarsmen)
- intr to take part in the racing of rowing boats as a sport, esp in eights, in which each member of the crew pulls one oar Compare scull
- tr to race against in a boat propelled by oars
Oxford row Cambridge every year
noun
- an act, instance, period, or distance of rowing
- an excursion in a rowing boat
Derived Forms
- ˈǷɱ, noun
- ˈǷɾԲ, noun
Other Word Forms
- Ƿa· adjective
- Ƿİ noun
- under·Ƿİ noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of row1
Origin of row2
Origin of row3
Word History and Origins
Origin of row1
Origin of row2
Origin of row3
Idioms and Phrases
- hard / long row to hoe, a difficult task or set of circumstances to confront:
At 32 and with two children, she found attending medical school a hard row to hoe.
More idioms and phrases containing row
see get one's ducks in a row ; kick up a fuss (row) ; skid row ; tough row to hoe .Example Sentences
The company's latest financial figures showed that global sales fell by 1% in the three months to the end of March, the fifth quarterly decline in a row.
The row was discussed in the House of Commons on Tuesday, with Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp calling their comments "evil".
A credible push in that direction might also help any chance of US businesses, Congress, or forces within the administration rowing back on the tariffs.
By the early 1980s, she had become synonymous with the massively popular Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue, appearing on the cover three years in a row.
As tensions spiral, India has alleged firing by Pakistan along the Line of Control, the de facto border between the two countries, for four nights in a row.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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