Dictionary
row
Pronunciation: (rō), [key]—
n.
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.See
tone row.
6. Checkers.one of the horizontal lines of squares on a checkerboard; rank.
7. 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.
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v.t.
to put in a row (often fol. by
up).
row
Pronunciation: (rō), [key]—
v.i.
to propel a vessel by the leverage of an oar or the like.
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v.t.
1. to propel (a vessel) by the leverage of an oar or the like.
2. to convey in a boat that is rowed.
3. to convey or propel (something) in a manner suggestive of rowing.
4. to require, use, or be equipped with (a number of oars):
The captain's barge rowed twenty oars.
5. to use (oarsmen) for rowing.
6. to perform or participate in by rowing:
to row a race.
7. to row against in a race:
Oxford rows Cambridge.
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n.
1. an act, instance, or period of rowing:
It was a long row to the far bank.
2. an excursion in a rowboat:
to go for a row. row
Pronunciation: (rou), [key]—
n.
1. a noisy dispute or quarrel; commotion.
2. noise or clamor.
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v.i.
to quarrel noisily.
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v.t.
Chiefly Brit.to upbraid severely; scold.
Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.
