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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024row1 /roʊ/USA pronunciation n. [countable]- a number of people or things in a line:the rows of customers.
- a line of seats facing the same way, as in a theater:seats in the front row.
Idioms- in a row:
- lined up one after the other or side by side:all in a row, waiting to go forward.
- happening one after the other without interruption:The team lost seven games in a row.
row2 /roʊ/USA pronunciation v. - Nautical, Naval Termsto move a vessel by the use of oars: [no object]rowing into a stiff breeze.[~ + object]He rowed the boat out to his favorite spot.
- Nautical, Naval Terms to transport (someone) in a boat that is rowed:[~ + object]I rowed her back to shore.
n. [countable] - an act or period of rowing.
- a trip in a rowboat.
row•er, n. [countable]row3 /raʊ/USA pronunciation n. - [countable] a noisy argument;
commotion.
v. [no object] - to quarrel or argue noisily.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024row1 (rō),USA pronunciation n. - a number of persons or things arranged in a line, esp. 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 and DanceSee tone row.
- Games[Checkers.]one of the horizontal lines of squares on a checkerboard;
rank. - hard or 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.
v.t. - to put in a row (often fol. by up).
- 1175–1225; Middle English row(e); compare Old English rǣw
- Nautical, Naval Termsto propel a vessel by the leverage of an oar or the like.
v.t. - Nautical, Naval Termsto propel (a vessel) by the leverage of an oar or the like.
- Nautical, Naval Termsto convey in a boat that is rowed.
- to convey or propel (something) in a manner suggestive of rowing.
- Nautical, Naval Termsto require, use, or be equipped with (a number of oars):The captain's barge rowed twenty oars.
- to use (oarsmen) for rowing.
- Naval Termsto perform or participate in by rowing:to row a race.
- Naval Termsto row against in a race:Oxford rows Cambridge.
n. - 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.
- bef. 950; Middle English rowen, Old English rōwan; cognate with Old Norse rōa; akin to Latin rēmus oar (see remus). Cf. rudder
- a noisy dispute or quarrel;
commotion. - noise or clamor.
v.i. - to quarrel noisily.
v.t. - British Terms[Chiefly Brit.]to upbraid severely;
scold.
- origin, originally uncertain 1740–50
- 1.See corresponding entry in Unabridged spat, tiff, scrap, scrape, set-to.
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