Row

Pronunciation

• RP enPR: rō, IPA: /ɹəʊ/
• US enPR: rō, IPA: /ɹoÊŠ/
• Homophones: rho, roe
• Rhymes: -əʊ

Old English rǣw, rāw, probably from Proto-Germanic *rai(h)waz. Cognate with Middle Dutch rīe, Dutch rij, Old High German rīga ("line"), rihan ("to string"), Middle High German rige ("line, row, ditch"), rīhe ("row, line, corridor"), German Reihe ("row"), Middle Low German rēge, rīge, Old Norse rega ("string"), Middle Dutch rīghe, Dutch rijg, rijge, German Riege ("sport team").

Full definition of row

Noun

1. A line of objects, often regularly spaced, such as seats in a theatre, vegetable plants in a garden etc.
• Bible, 1 Kings vii. 4And there were windows in three rows.
• John Milton (1608-1674)The bright seraphim in burning row.
• 1918, W. B. Maxwell, The Mirror and the Lamp Chapter 5, Here, in the transept and choir, where the service was being held, one was conscious every moment of an increasing brightness; colours glowing vividly beneath the circular chandeliers, and the rows of small lights on the choristers' desks flashed and sparkled in front of the boys' faces, deep linen collars, and red neckbands.
2. A line of entries in a table, etc., going from left to right, as opposed to a column going from top to bottom.

Synonyms

• (line of objects) line, sequence, series, succession, tier of seats
• (in a table) line

Antonyms

• column

From Middle English rowen ("to row"), from Old English rōwan ("to row"), from Proto-Germanic *rōaną ("to row"), from Proto-Indo-European *ere-, *h₁reh₁- ("to row"). Compare West Frisian roeie, Dutch roeien, Danish ro. More at rudder.

Noun

1. (weightlifting) An exercise performed with a pulling motion of the arms towards the back.

Verb

1. (transitive or intransitive, nautical) To propel (a boat or other craft) over water using oars.
2. (transitive) To transport in a boat propelled with oars.to row the captain ashore in his barge
3. (intransitive) To be moved by oars.The boat rows easily.

Pronunciation

• enPR: rou, IPA: /raÊŠ/
• Rhymes: -aÊŠ

Unclear; some suggest it is a Back-formation from {{3}}, verb.

Noun

1. A noisy argument.
• 1918, W. B. Maxwell, The Mirror and the Lamp Chapter 22, In the autumn there was a row at some cement works about the unskilled labour men. A union had just been started for them and all but a few joined. One of these blacklegs was laid for by a picket and knocked out of time.
• 1963, Margery Allingham, The China Governess Chapter 18, ‘Then the father has a great fight with his terrible conscience,’ said Munday with granite seriousness. ‘Should he make a row with the police …? Or should he say nothing about it and condone brutality for fear of appearing in the newspapers?
2. A continual loud noise.
   Who's making that row?

Synonyms

• (noisy argument) argument, disturbance, fight, fracas, quarrel, shouting match, slanging match
• (continual loud noise) din, racket

Verb

1. (intransitive) to argue noisily

Synonyms

• (argue noisily) argue, fight

Anagrams

• wor