Row
[rəʊ] or [ro]
Definition
(noun.) a continuous chronological succession without an interruption; 'they won the championship three years in a row'.
(noun.) an arrangement of objects or people side by side in a line; 'a row of chairs'.
(noun.) a linear array of numbers, letters, or symbols side by side.
(noun.) a long continuous strip (usually running horizontally); 'a mackerel sky filled with rows of clouds'; 'rows of barbed wire protected the trenches'.
(verb.) propel with oars; 'row the boat across the lake'.
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Definition
(a. & adv.) Rough; stern; angry.
(n.) A noisy, turbulent quarrel or disturbance; a brawl.
(n.) A series of persons or things arranged in a continued line; a line; a rank; a file; as, a row of trees; a row of houses or columns.
(v. t.) To propel with oars, as a boat or vessel, along the surface of water; as, to row a boat.
(v. t.) To transport in a boat propelled with oars; as, to row the captain ashore in his barge.
(v. i.) To use the oar; as, to row well.
(v. i.) To be moved by oars; as, the boat rows easily.
(n.) The act of rowing; excursion in a rowboat.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Rank, line, file, series.
n. [Colloquial.] Broil, tumult, uproar, feud, riot, RUMPUS, fracas, squabble, outbreak, quarrel, affray, disturbance, altercation, breach of the peace.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See ROAM]
SYN:Series, order, rank, sequence, continuation, continuity, file, string,concatenation, thread
ANT:Dissociation, disconnection, rupture, intermission, hiatus, solution, failure,gap, discontinuance, dissolution, inconsequence, derangement, deviation,flexion, deflexion, irregularity, sinuosity, flexuosity
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Definition
v.t. to impel with an oar: to transport by rowing.—v.i. to work with the oar: to be moved by oars.—n. an excursion in a rowing-boat.—adj. Row′able.—ns. Row′boat a boat moved by rowers; Row′er; Row′-port a small square hole in small vessels near the water-line for the oars in a calm.
n. a noisy squabble: uproar: an outbreak: a brawl.—v.t. to injure by wild treatment: to abuse scold.—v.i. to behave in a riotous way.—adj. Row′dy noisy and turbulent given to quarrelling.—n. a rough disreputable fellow.—n. Row′dy-dow a sustained noise or hubbub a row.—adjs. Row′dy-dow′dy given to raising rows uproarious; Row′dyish.—ns. Row′dyism the conduct of a rowdy or rough turbulence; Row′er one given to quarrels.
n. a line: a rank: persons or things in a line.—v.t. to arrange in a line.
n. (Scot.) a form of roll.—n. Row′-cloth a folding cloak of warm cloth.
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Examples
- Bambridge is over there, but he is making a row--I don't think he's ready for business. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The doors were at the ends, a row of seats ran along each side of the interior, and a long deal table extended down the centre. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Halliday turned objectionable, and I only just saved myself from jumping in his stomach, in a real old-fashioned row. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- But I knew well enough how to 'shoot' the bridge after seeing it done, and so began to row about among the shipping in the Pool, and down to Erith. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- It will be such a help to Laurie, for I can row, and Meg see to the lunch, and the children be useful in some way. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- There they are, like the four-and-twenty fiddlers--all of a row. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The paper is now advanced the proper distance, and another row is stuck. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Double cultivators are constructed so that their outside teeth may be adjusted in and out from the centre of the machine to meet the width of the rows between which they operate. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The cold hoar frost glistened on the tombstones, and sparkled like rows of gems, among the stone carvings of the old church. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- All those rows of volumes--will you not now do what you used to speak of? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Everybody knows how like the street the two dinner-rows of people who take their stand by the street will be. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Her body was long and elegant, her face was crushed tiny like a beetle's, she had rows of round heavy collars, like a column of quoits, on her neck. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- He makes tremendous rows,--roars, and pegs at the floor with some frightful instrument. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- The positive or nickel plate (Fig. 6) is seen to consist of two rows of round rods or pencils, thirty in number, held in a vertical position by a steel support-frame. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- I saw the lights of the hotel and rowed out, rowing straight out until they were out of sight. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- At first they refused it on account of my having rowed, but I insisted on their taking it. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- For a while, with the brandy, I rowed easily and steadily. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- But Gerald looked back as he rowed, beholding her, forgetting what he was doing. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Birkin rowed without speaking to the landing-stage. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- But Birkin rowed evenly and unswerving, with an inhuman inevitability. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- We rowed noiselessly away, and before the police-boat came in sight again, we were safe at home once more. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- At these latter words the girl shivered again, and for a moment paused in her rowing, seeming to turn deadly faint. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- I saw the lights of the hotel and rowed out, rowing straight out until they were out of sight. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Are you tired from rowing? Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- There was a boat with a gaudy Japanese parasol, and a man in white, rowing. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Down the sable flood we glided, I thought of the Styx, and of Charon rowing some solitary soul to the Land of Shades. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- The art of rowing can first be discerned upon the Nile. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Augustus, at the word of command, took off his coat and waistcoat and began rowing, while Berkeley was all attention to us. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
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