row Definition

row¹
noun

1. A number of people or things arranged in a line.

Thesaurus: sequence, series, succession, range, arrangement, file, rank, line, queue, run, course.
2. In a cinema or theatre: a line of seats.
3. A line of plants in a garden.

Example: a row of cabbages
4. Often in street-names: a street with a continuous line of houses on one or both sides.
5. math.
A horizontal arrangement of numbers, terms, etc.
6. In knitting: a complete line of stitches.

Idiom: a hard row to hoe

A difficult job or destiny.

Idiom: in a row

Forming a row.

colloq
In an unbroken sequence; in succession.
Example: three telephone calls in a row
Thesaurus: consecutively, in succession, successively.

Etymology: Anglo-Saxon raw.

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row²
verb rowed, rowing

1. To move (a boat) through the water using oars.
2. To carry (people, goods, etc) in a rowing boat.
intr
3. To race in rowing boats for sport.
intr
4. To compete in a rowing race.

noun

1. The action or an act of rowing a boat.
2a. A period of rowing;
2b. A distance of rowing.
3. A trip in a rowing boat.

Derivative: rower
noun

See also oarsman.

Derivative: rowing
noun

Etymology: Anglo-Saxon rowan.

Phrasal Verb: row over

To win a rowing race (usually a heat) by rowing the course unopposed.

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row³
noun

1. A noisy quarrel.
2. A loud unpleasant noise or disturbance.
3. A severe reprimand.

verb

intr
rowed, rowing
1. To quarrel noisily.

Etymology: 18c.