row

noun

1. 1

   A line of objects, often regularly spaced, such as seats in a theatre, vegetable plants in a garden, etc.

   And there were windows in three rows.

   The bright seraphim in burning row.

   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. 2

   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)

3. 3

   A horizontal line of entries in a table, etc., going from left to right, as opposed to a column going from top to bottom.

4. 4

   Variant of cornrowslangClipping of cornrow.

   Vyreen had just finished braiding my hair, and his call had caught me coming out of her crib with my 'rows looking tight.

   If you thought it'd be hard to get a good cornrow braiding in Latvia, think again. Porzingis said he was re-braided almost every week to keep his rows fresh.

verb

1. 1

   To propel (a boat or other craft) over water using oars.

2. 2

   To transport in a boat propelled with oars.

   to row the captain ashore in his barge

3. 3

   To be moved by oars.

   The boat rows easily.

noun

1. 1

   An act or instance of rowing.

   I went for an early-morning row.

2. 2

   Any of several thematically similar exercise movements performed with a pulling motion of the arms towards the back.

noun

1. 1

   A noisy argument.

   There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row.

   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?

2. 2

   A continual loud noise.

   Who's making that row?

verb

1. 1

   To argue noisily.

Forms

plural

rows

past tense

rowed

past participle

rowed

present participle

rowing

third person singular

rows