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row

1  [roh]
Use row in a Sentence
–noun
1. a number of persons or things arranged in a line, esp. a straight line: a row of apple trees.
2. a line of persons or things so arranged: The petitioners waited in a row.
3. a line of adjacent seats facing the same way, as in a theater: seats in the third row of the balcony.
4. a street formed by two continuous lines of buildings.
5. Music. tone row.
6. Checkers. one of the horizontal lines of squares on a checkerboard; rank.
–verb (used with object)
7. to put in a row (often fol. by up).
—Idiom
8. 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.
Origin:
1175–1225; ME row(e); cf. OE rǣw
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2  [roh]
–verb (used without object)
1. to propel a vessel by the leverage of an oar or the like.
–verb (used with object)
2. to propel (a vessel) by the leverage of an oar or the like.
3. to convey in a boat that is rowed.
4. to convey or propel (something) in a manner suggestive of rowing.
5. to require, use, or be equipped with (a number of oars): The captain's barge rowed twenty oars.
6. to use (oarsmen) for rowing.
7. to perform or participate in by rowing: to row a race.
8. to row against in a race: Oxford rows Cambridge.
–noun
9. an act, instance, or period of rowing: It was a long row to the far bank.
10. an excursion in a rowboat: to go for a row.
Origin:
bef. 950; ME rowen, OE rōwan; c. ON rōa; akin to L rēmus oar (see remus). Cf. rudder

Related forms:
row⋅a⋅ble, adjective
rower, noun

row

3  [rou]
–noun
1. a noisy dispute or quarrel; commotion.
2. noise or clamor.
–verb (used without object)
3. to quarrel noisily.
–verb (used with object)
4. Chiefly British. to upbraid severely; scold.
Origin:
1740–50; orig. uncert.

Synonyms:
1. spat, tiff, scrap, scrape, set-to.
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row 1   (rō)   
n.  

  1. A series of objects placed next to each other, usually in a straight line.

  2. A succession without a break or gap in time: won the title for three years in a row.

  3. A line of adjacent seats, as in a theater, auditorium, or classroom.

  4. A continuous line of buildings along a street.

tr.v.   rowed, row·ing, rows
To place in a row.

[Middle English, from Old English rāw.]
row 2   (rō)   
v.   rowed, row·ing, rows

v.   intr. Nautical
To propel a boat with or as if with oars.
v.   tr.

  1. Nautical

    1. To propel (a boat) with or as if with oars.

    2. To carry in or on a boat propelled by oars.

    3. To use (a specified number of oars or people deploying them).

    4. To pull (an oar) as part of a racing crew.

    5. To race against by rowing.

  2. To propel or convey in a manner resembling rowing of a boat.

  3. Sports

    1. To pull (an oar) as part of a racing crew.

    2. To race against by rowing.

n.   Nautical

    1. The act or an instance of rowing.

    2. A shift at the oars of a boat.

  2. A trip or an excursion in a rowboat.


[Middle English rowen, from Old English rōwan; see erə- in Indo-European roots.]
row'er n.
row 3   (rou)   
n.  

  1. A boisterous disturbance or quarrel; a brawl. See Synonyms at brawl.

  2. An uproar; a great noise.

intr.v.   rowed, row·ing, rows
To take part in a quarrel, brawl, or uproar.

[Origin unknown.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Word Origin & History

row  (1)
"line of people or things," O.E. ræw "a row, line," from P.Gmc. *rai(h)waz (cf. M.Du. rie, Du. rij "row;" O.H.G. rihan "to thread," riga "line;" Ger. Reihe "row, line, series;" O.N. rega "string"), possibly from PIE base *rei- "to scratch, tear, cut" (cf. Skt. rikhati "scratches," rekha "line"). Meaning "a number of houses in a line" is attested from 1450, originally chiefly Scottish and northern English. Row-house is first recorded 1936, Amer.Eng. Phrase a hard row to hoe first attested 1835, in writing of Davy Crockett.

row  (2)
"propel with oars," O.E. rowan (class VII strong verb; past tense reow, pp. rowen), from P.Gmc. *ro- (cf. O.N. roa, Du. roeien, W.Fris. roeije, M.H.G. rüejen), from PIE base *ere- "to row" (cf. Skt. aritrah "oar;" Gk. eressein "to row," eretmon "oar," trieres "trireme;" L. remus "oar;" Lith. iriu "to row," irklas "oar;" O.Ir. rome "oar," O.E. roðor "rudder"). First record of rowboat is from 1538 (cf. Du. roeiboot).

row  (3)
"noisy commotion," 1746, Cambridge University slang, of uncertain origin, perhaps related to rousel "drinking bout" (1602), a shortened form of carousal. Klein suggests a back-formation from rouse (n.), mistaken as a plural (cf. pea from pease).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Idioms & Phrases

row

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

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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