row

[ roh ]

/ roʊ /

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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).

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Idioms for row

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.

Origin of row

1175–1225; Middle English row(e); compare Old English rǣw

Words nearby row

rover boy, roving, roving commission, rovno, rovuma, row, row house, row over, row vector, rowan, rowboat

Definition for rowed (2 of 3)

row²

[ roh ]

/ roʊ /

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.

Origin of row

before 950; Middle English rowen, Old English rōwan; cognate with Old Norse rōa; akin to Latin rēmus oar. Cf. rudder

OTHER WORDS FROM row

row·a·ble, adjectiverow·er, nounun·der·row·er, noun

Definition for rowed (3 of 3)

row³

[ rou ]

/ raʊ /

noun

a noisy dispute or quarrel; commotion.

noise or clamor.

verb (used without object)

to quarrel noisily.

verb (used with object)

Chiefly British. to upbraid severely; scold.

Origin of row

First recorded in 1740–50; origin uncertain

SYNONYMS FOR row

1 spat, tiff, scrap, scrape, set-to.

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Example sentences from the Web for rowed

For years, Mooney rowed around Long Island promoting HIV/AIDS awareness.
Victor Mooney’s Epic Adventure for His Dead Brother|Justin Jones|October 19, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Odysseus ordered his men to stuff their ears with beeswax as they rowed by.
War Nostalgia Is Leading Veterans to Places Like Syria. One Went Missing There.|Elliot Ackerman|May 3, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The Rio Grande split into two channels, and we rowed to port and took the American side.
My Night on the Border|Bryan Curtis|May 25, 2010|DAILY BEAST
Bunker rowed the boat half way across the lake, and tied it to one of the trees that grew on a little island.
Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue at Camp Rest-A-While|Laura Lee Hope

Then he got into it and rowed across the lake, and coming to the giant's dwelling he hid himself, and stayed the night there.
Folk-Lore and Legends; Scandinavian|Various
And many little boats were rowed from the city to the ship and back again.
The Sandman: His Sea Stories|William J. Hopkins
He waded to his boat and rowed rapidly across stream once more.
Sea-Dogs All!|Tom Bevan
He might have practiced dumb-bells or rowed for some time without inconvenience.
A Practical Physiology|Albert F. Blaisdell

British Dictionary definitions for rowed (1 of 3)

row¹

/ (rəʊ) /

noun

an arrangement of persons or things in a linea row of chairs

mainly British 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 row in succession; one after the otherhe won two gold medals in a row

a hard row to hoe a difficult task or assignment

Word Origin for row

Old English rāw, rǣw; related to Old High German rīga line, Lithuanian raiwe strip

British Dictionary definitions for rowed (2 of 3)

row²

/ (raʊ) /

noun

a noisy quarrel or dispute

a noisy disturbance; commotionwe couldn't hear the music for the row next door

a reprimand

give someone a row informal to scold someone; tell someone off

verb

(intr often foll by with) to quarrel noisily

(tr) archaic to reprimand

Word Origin for row

C18: origin unknown

British Dictionary definitions for rowed (3 of 3)

row³

/ (rəʊ) /

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 oarCompare scull (def. 6)

(tr) to race against in a boat propelled by oarsOxford row Cambridge every year

noun

an act, instance, period, or distance of rowing

an excursion in a rowing boat

Derived forms of row

rower, nounrowing, noun

Word Origin for row

Old English rōwan; related to Middle Dutch roien, Middle High German rüejen, Old Norse rōa, Latin rēmus oar

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Idioms and Phrases with rowed

row

see get one's ducks in a row; kick up a fuss (row); skid row; tough row to hoe.

row

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