Pronunciations (8)
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/ɹəʊ/
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- Received-Pronunciation
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/ɹoʊ/
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- US
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/ɾo/
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- Scotland
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/ɾou/
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- Wales
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/rɑː/
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- Northumbria
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/ɹaʊ/
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ɹəʊ
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ɹaʊ
Noun
A line of objects, often regularly spaced, such as seats in a theatre, vegetable plants in a garden, etc.
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And there were windows in three rows.
The bright seraphim in burning row.
More examples (1)
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.
A line of objects, often regularly spaced, such as seats in a theatre, vegetable plants in a garden, etc. Specifically, a line of buildings on a street; also, the street itself (especially in street names)
A horizontal line of entries in a table, etc., going from left to right, as opposed to a column going from top to bottom.
- Antonyms
Verb
To propel (a boat or other craft) over water using oars.
Usage- Intransitive
- Transitive
- Synonyms
To transport in a boat propelled with oars.
Usage- Transitive
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to row the captain ashore in his barge
To be moved by oars.
Usage- Intransitive
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The boat rows easily.
Noun
An act or instance of rowing.
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I went for an early-morning row.
Any of several thematically similar exercise movements performed with a pulling motion of the arms towards the back.
Noun
A noisy argument.
Usage- UK usage
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There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row.
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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.
As a rule, you see, I'm not lugged into Family Rows. On the occasions when Aunt is calling to Aunt like mastodons bellowing across primeval swamps and Uncle James's letter about Cousin Mabel's peculiar behaviour is being shot round the family circle... the clan has a tendency to ignore me.
‘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?
[…]he wrote to me last week telling me about an incredible bitch of a row blazing there on account of someone having been and gone and produced an unofficial magazine called Raddled, full of obscene libellous Oz-like filth. And what I though, what Sammy and I thought, was—why not?
The row comes at a time when Africa is supposed to be moving towards greater free trade through the establishment of a continent-wide free-trade area, which began operating four years ago.
A continual loud noise.
Usage- UK usage
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Who's making that row?
Verb
To argue noisily.
Usage- Intransitive
an arrangement of objects or people side by side in a line
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a row of chairs
a long continuous strip (usually running horizontally)
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a mackerel sky filled with rows of clouds
rows of barbed wire protected the trenches
(construction) a layer of masonry
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a course of bricks
a linear array of numbers, letters, or symbols side by side
- Broader terms
a continuous chronological succession without an interruption
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they won the championship three years in a row
the act of rowing as a sport
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an angry dispute
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they had a quarrel
they had words
Verb
propel with oars
- Broader terms
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row the boat across the lake