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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
row
I.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a rowing boatBritish English
blazing row (=very angry argument)
death row
▪ a murderer on death row
defuse a situation/crisis/row etc
▪ Beth’s quiet voice helped to defuse the situation.
front seat/row
▪ We got there an hour early in order to get seats in the front row.
massive argument/row etcBritish English
▪ I had a massive argument with her.
row a boat
▪ Are you any good at rowing a boat?
row house
rowing boat
rowing machine
skid row
the bottom row
▪ That’s me in the middle of the bottom row of the photograph.
unholy row
▪ An unholy row broke out between two of the men drinking in the bar.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
back
▪ Behind such a solid platform Toulon's back row of Melville, Louvet and Loppy thrived, roaming the field with impunity.
▪ His grin spoke volumes to the back row.
▪ Some sat in the back rows of the chapel like recalcitrant fourth-formers.
▪ At times like this the back row inclined to craven panic.
▪ Benny reddened at the stares, but Nan had left the two admirers and was bounding up to the back row.
▪ The back row broke out in its loudest laughter yet.
▪ A teacher in the back row could hardly contain herself.
▪ There was a scramble for chairs in the back rows, but I was not one of the lucky ones.
double
▪ On the other side of the double row of barbed wire a guard was standing still holding his rifle at the ready.
▪ It is a double row of fine, tall and expansive Victorian terraced villas and looks as if it is straight out of London.
▪ This clever device produces a parallel double row on one side and a single row of zigzag stitches on the other.
▪ The second turning starts at the outside edge turning the whole field including the double row towards the hedgerow.
▪ Its staring eyes and double row of fangs feature in many religious icons, and its skin has magical healing properties.
▪ As they stood and ate, a double row of warm yellow lights sprang into life and illuminated Beda Fomm.
▪ A Smarty number in the middle and a double row round the edge.
▪ Salvation Street was on his left, a double row of cottages which cut across the low neck of land.
front
▪ He would treat himself to a seat in the front row.
▪ He knew he could abuse the front row as much as he wanted.
▪ A year earlier, he qualified on the front row of the F1 grid in a Formula Two Matra.
▪ Hector sits in the back seat of the front row, nearest the door.
▪ I suggest that the front row of the chorus at the Folies Berge res would have been a better place.
▪ Miss Rose and Uncle Billy; holding hands on the front row.
▪ Don t sit in the front row, unless you re a masochist.
▪ Out of deference to me, and for the eventual eradication of our corneas, we sat in the absolute front row.
■ NOUN
death
▪ Women guards supervise showering and conduct body searches on male death row.
▪ Instead he fairly hustled his big body along, as if it were a laggardly prisoner he was escorting down death row.
▪ Only two death row inmates have been put to death since then, and both men chose to call off their appeals.
▪ The picture has an odd formality to it, a portrait of the Madonna on death row.
▪ He is on death row awaiting execution for a non-political murder.
▪ Despite attempts to curb the number of appeals, death row waits are growing.
house
▪ Then footage of police, some in uniform, some not, gathered on the stoop of a row house.
▪ Narrow, two-story, brick row houses flanked the pump works on either side.
▪ The old row house is just a memory.
▪ The apartment to which she and Uncle Allen welcomed us was in a declining row house on Wakeman Avenue.
▪ Rob DeGraff ditched his roomy house and 10, 000 square-foot lot for a row house with a patch of yard.
▪ They still lived in the row house with their 1955 station wagon.
■ VERB
knit
▪ Now you're ready to knit the next row and that's all there is to it.
▪ Set the back carriage to knit and knit four rows.
▪ Hold this end of the yarn lightly to stop it jumping off the needles and knit a row.
▪ Using at least two full sizes tighter than main tension, knit the number of rows given in pattern for rib.
▪ That is all it does, once the stitches have been transferred, the main carriage will knit the row.
▪ Transfer alternate stitches and knit two rows of stocking stitch throughout, always transferring in the same direction.
▪ Push 30 needles at left to hold. Knit one row.
sit
▪ Peter Jacobsen probably likes to sit in the front row at movies and be there in time for the trailers.
▪ In the stalls Timothy Gedge sat three rows behind the children from Sea House, with the carrier-bag by his feet.
▪ Frank sat one row above him and slightly to the side, drinking an orangeade.
▪ They sat on the second row of choir benches to the left of the altar.
▪ Most graduates of Harvard Business School sat in the front row.
▪ Then they were sat down in neat rows, boys on one side and girls on the other.
▪ Elmer sat primly behind the rows of photographs, his hands folded beside a dummy of the current front page.
stand
▪ They stood in three rows of five, to be counted and then marched forward.
▪ I circled the house at a distance, passed through the orchard into the garden and stood amid the rows of broccoli.
▪ A fleet of elevators stood neatly in a row inside the swing doors.
▪ For the last minutes of the film, Marge and Rowena stood behind the last row of seats.
▪ They stand in a straight row, neat and orderly, facing south.
▪ You know my dad, can't stand rows.
▪ Stephansdom, and pastel century-old apartments standing in a tight row like a chorus line.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a flaming row/temper
▪ And this caused a flaming row at the school debating society.
▪ I was a girl in a flaming temper.
almighty din/crash/row etc
▪ And certainly there would be the most almighty row if Clarke got the push.
▪ Before he got half way, they dropped with an almighty crash on to the stone floor.
be on skid row
kick up a fuss/stink/row
▪ It's financial clout that counts or, failing that, kicking up a stink.
▪ It's for your protection, so that you have the union behind you if Mellowes kicks up a stink.
▪ It might be partly because I didn't kick up a fuss when I lost the captaincy.
▪ It will still contain plenty of business and mortgage borrowers to kick up a stink about base rates.
▪ Yet when pedestrianisation was first announced the city's shopkeepers, taxi drivers and disabled groups kicked up a fuss.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ A few months ago they had a big row, and Steve drove off and spent the weekend in London.
▪ Can you see me in the photo? I'm in the back row on the left.
▪ Gabrielle found a seat in the front row.
▪ Julie arranged her perfumes and creams in neat rows on the dressing table.
▪ The back wall was covered with row upon row of files.
▪ The couple in the house next door were having a blazing row.
▪ The hotel staff stood in a row to greet their important guests.
▪ The newspapers are full of stories about the continuing row over private education.
▪ The tiny cottages had been built in long rows.
▪ The World Trade Organization will give the two countries 60 days to end their row.
▪ There were always rows when my dad got home.
▪ They put a row of chairs out for the visitors.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Row upon row of eggs confront me.
▪ Besides a standard keyboard, the memex would have rows of buttons and levers.
▪ If an estate car tempts you, it could pay to choose one with the option of an extra row of seats.
▪ It stood under some beech trees, between a row of cottages and a battered church.
▪ Just down the row of lockers from Cianfrocco are two young players who just bought their first homes, neither in California.
▪ She crossed to the wardrobe and opened it and saw her abandoned clothes hanging in a neat row.
▪ With one final effort the first row of marchers dug in their heels and came to a halt.
II.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
furious
▪ After it was extinguished by ground staff, a furious row then ensued between the referee and our lads.
▪ The overweight 45year-old was believed to have suffocated her 65-year-old victim during a furious row.
▪ It followed a furious row on Saturday morning.
▪ Again there was a furious row.
▪ These telephone calls provoke long and furious rows between Mr Smith and his second wife.
▪ A furious row broke out last night over who should film the happy couple outside tiny Crathie church.
▪ When the Socialist government came to power there was a furious public row.
long
▪ I looked across the long row of pens.
▪ Tracer rounds corkscrewed through the glare, and people were dying in long neat rows.
▪ Ben climbed them slowly, tired from the long row back.
▪ It was dead low tide and rather a long row.
▪ On the outskirts of Tabor there were long rows of multi-storey apartment blocks of an extraordinary ugliness; many flats looked empty.
▪ On the long row back he had traced the logic of the thing time and again.
▪ These telephone calls provoke long and furious rows between Mr Smith and his second wife.
▪ Facing the front of the Post Office was a long row of seal-makers and scribes squatting in the dust with their customers.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Row upon row of eggs confront me.
▪ Besides a standard keyboard, the memex would have rows of buttons and levers.
▪ If an estate car tempts you, it could pay to choose one with the option of an extra row of seats.
▪ She crossed to the wardrobe and opened it and saw her abandoned clothes hanging in a neat row.
▪ With one final effort the first row of marchers dug in their heels and came to a halt.
III.verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
across
▪ Billy rowed across and followed her at a discreet distance.
▪ Caretaker reflected: if he got the Amy Roy's tender out and rowed across, it would take about fifteen minutes.
▪ Her brother rowed across and to his dismay saw that the man was wearing convict's clothes.
away
▪ As the two rowed away, the mob reached the shore.
back
▪ When she returned to her boat, she did not notice this, and proceeded to row back to her lock-house.
▪ Then she rowed back to the middle of the river, and, thinking she was alone, jumped out to swim.
▪ He could have drowned rowing back from the yacht club.
▪ They would row about fifty yards in one direction, then turn round and row back, seemingly over the same ground.
▪ The ferryman asked the boy why he had to row back and forth and could never be set free.
out
▪ He rows out alone into the estuary, and waits there - waits for what?
▪ Then there was the time Hammond bravely rowed out to an island on the golf course at the Tucson Country Club.
▪ So once again he rowed out to sea, and for three days neither ate nor fished.
over
▪ He rows over, restrains her, and brings her into his boat.
▪ The sailors saw him at once, and rowed over to rescue him.
up
▪ Again Jesse Johnson and the new preacher Sinnett rowed up to the raft to meet Clayt.
■ NOUN
boat
▪ Some ironically offered to get into the boats and row them to camp through the mud....
▪ The boat is rowed slowly round the lough whilst an angler sitting in the stern casts out at right angles.
▪ The lord stepped out of the boat that had rowed him ashore and slowly mounted the steps of the pier.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a flaming row/temper
▪ And this caused a flaming row at the school debating society.
▪ I was a girl in a flaming temper.
almighty din/crash/row etc
▪ And certainly there would be the most almighty row if Clarke got the push.
▪ Before he got half way, they dropped with an almighty crash on to the stone floor.
be on skid row
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ In the afternoon, we rowed out to the island.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ As the two rowed away, the mob reached the shore.
▪ I lost the race and finished up trying to row half a dinghy with the crew cheering in the distance.
▪ In contrast, governments that put steering and rowing within the same organization limit themselves to relatively narrow strategies.
▪ Some ironically offered to get into the boats and row them to camp through the mud....
▪ They did not intend rowing so far.
IV.verb
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ As the two rowed away, the mob reached the shore.
▪ As we've seen, row one is background, rows two and three are pattern, and row four is background.
▪ She got in the car to talk to him but, as the couple rowed, shot himself.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Row

Row \Row\, n. [OE. rowe, rawe, rewe, AS. r[=a]w, r?w; probably akin to D. rij, G. reihe; cf. Skr. r?kh[=a] a line, stroke.] A series of persons or things arranged in a continued line; a line; a rank; a file; as, a row of trees; a row of houses or columns.

And there were windows in three rows.
--1 Kings vii. 4.

The bright seraphim in burning row.
--Milton.

Row culture (Agric.), the practice of cultivating crops in drills.

Row of points (Geom.), the points on a line, infinite in number, as the points in which a pencil of rays is intersected by a line.

Row

Row \Row\, n. [Abbrev. fr. rouse, n.] A noisy, turbulent quarrel or disturbance; a brawl. [Colloq.]
--Byron.

Row

Row \Row\, a. & adv. [See Rough.] Rough; stern; angry. [Obs.] ``Lock he never so row.''
--Chaucer.

Row

Row \Row\, n. The act of rowing; excursion in a rowboat.

Row

Row \Row\, v. i.

  1. To use the oar; as, to row well.

  2. To be moved by oars; as, the boat rows easily.

Row

Row \Row\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Rowed; p. pr. & vb. n. Rowing.] [AS. r?wan; akin to D. roeijen, MHG. r["u]ejen, Dan. roe, Sw. ro, Icel. r?a, L. remus oar, Gr. ?, Skr. aritra. [root]8. Cf. Rudder.]

  1. To propel with oars, as a boat or vessel, along the surface of water; as, to row a boat.

  2. To transport in a boat propelled with oars; as, to row the captain ashore in his barge.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
row

"line of people or things," Old English ræw "a row, line; succession, hedge-row," probably from Proto-Germanic *rai(h)waz (cognates: Middle Dutch rie, Dutch rij "row;" Old High German rihan "to thread," riga "line;" German Reihe "row, line, series;" Old Norse rega "string"), possibly from PIE root *rei- "to scratch, tear, cut" (cognates: Sanskrit rikhati "scratches," rekha "line"). Meaning "a number of houses in a line" is attested from mid-15c., originally chiefly Scottish and northern English. Phrase a hard row to hoe attested from 1823, American English.

row

"propel with oars," Old English rowan "go by water, row" (class VII strong verb; past tense reow, past participle rowen), from Proto-Germanic *ro- (cognates: Old Norse roa, Dutch roeien, West Frisian roeije, Middle High German rüejen), from PIE root *ere- (1) "to row" (cognates: Sanskrit aritrah "oar;" Greek eressein "to row," eretmon "oar," trieres "trireme;" Latin remus "oar;" Lithuanian iriu "to row," irklas "oar;" Old Irish rome "oar," Old English roðor "rudder").

row

"noisy commotion," 1746, Cambridge University slang, of uncertain origin, perhaps related to rousel "drinking bout" (c.1600), a shortened form of carousal. Klein suggests a back-formation from rouse (n.), mistaken as a plural (compare pea from pease).

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Wiktionary
row

Etymology 1 alt. A line of objects, often regularly spaced, such as seats in a theatre, vegetable plants in a garden etc. n. A line of objects, often regularly spaced, such as seats in a theatre, vegetable plants in a garden etc. Etymology 2

n. (context weightlifting English) An exercise performed with a pulling motion of the arms towards the back. vb. 1 (context transitive or intransitive nautical English) To propel (a boat or other craft) over water using oars. 2 (context transitive English) To transport in a boat propelled with oars. 3 (context intransitive English) To be moved by oars. Etymology 3

n. A noisy argument. vb. (context intransitive English) to argue noisily

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WordNet
row

v. propel with oars; "row the boat across the lake"

row

  1. n. an arrangement of objects or people side by side in a line; "a row of chairs"

  2. an angry dispute; "they had a quarrel"; "they had words" [syn: quarrel, wrangle, words, run-in, dustup]

  3. a long continuous strip (usually running horizontally); "a mackerel sky filled with rows of clouds"; "rows of barbed wire protected the trenches"

  4. (construction) a layer of masonry; "a course of bricks" [syn: course]

  5. a linear array of numbers side by side

  6. a continuous chronological succession without an interruption; "they won the championship three years in a row"

  7. the act of rowing as a sport [syn: rowing]

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Wikipedia
Rów

Rów may refer to the following places:

  • Rów, Pomeranian Voivodeship (north Poland)
  • Rów, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship (north Poland)
  • Rów, West Pomeranian Voivodeship (north-west Poland)
Row (album)

Row is an album by the Colorado band Gerard, fronted by singer/songwriter Gerard McMahon. It was Gerard's second album and was released in 1976.

Row (weight-lifting)

In strength training, rowing (or a row, usually preceded by a qualifying adjective — for instance a seated row) is an exercise where the purpose is to strengthen the muscles that draw the rower's arms toward the body ( latissimus dorsi) as well as those that retract the scapulae ( trapezius and rhomboids) and those that support the spine ( erector spinae). When done on a rowing machine, rowing also exercises muscles that extend and support the legs ( quadriceps and thigh muscles). In all cases, the abdominal and lower back muscles must be used in order to support the body and prevent back injury.

Many other weight-assisted gym exercises mimic the movement of rowing, such as the deadlift, high pull and the bent-over row. An effective off-season training programme combines both erg pieces and weight-assisted movements similar to rowing, with an emphasis on improving endurance under high tension rather than maximum strength.

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Usage examples of "row".

I was scooting my chair on its track back and forth along the row of sensor consoles that reported and recorded a variety of basic abiotic data.

If, however, meat had been placed on the glands of these same tentacles before they had begun to secrete copiously and to absorb, they undoubtedly would have affected the exterior rows.

The shrub is a native of southern Europe, being a small evergreen plant, the twigs of which are densely covered with little leaves in four rows, having a strong, peculiar, unpleasant odour of turpentine, with a bitter, acrid, resinous taste.

Carl was bent over the benchtop in his lab, carefully pi petting a sucrose-laden DNA solution tinted with a blue indicator dye into a row of tiny slots in an agarose gel.

And that brought on another row, as the forester lashed out again with his enhanced PK function and Aiken fought back with his coercive power, trying to make Raimo ram his own forefinger down his throat.

There is also a row of niches on the towers immediately above the ornamental gable of the aisle windows, and the upper part of each tower is covered with niches.

The aisle fronts have upper storeys ornamented with blind arches and an upper row of small lancet windows.

I listened with interest from my reserved seat on the front row, but part of my mind remained concentrated on the puzzle of Albacore, whose duties as chair of the meeting kept him from his other task of stroking my ego.

Next morning we proceeded to Turin, and on Wednesday got here, in the middle of the last night of the Congress Carnival -- rowing up the Canal to our Albergo through a dazzling blaze of lights and throng of boats, -- there being, if we are told truly, 50,000 strangers in the city.

To his right, a row of dead salmon birds and ribbon birds, Alfin smiling in his sleep, and one of the Carther Tribe women, the pregnant one, Ilsa.

Each row thus offers a different set of cipher substitutes to the letters of the plaintext alphabet at the top.

Since there can be only as many rows as there are letters in the alphabet, the tableau is square.

Ahead of us now was the target, a row of six or seven low-level, brick faced light industrial units with flat aluminium roofs and windows.

My crew took out that row of amelanchier bushes on the north side this morning, and I wondered if Lord Mark wanted any more compost.

And in the afternoon we went for a row on the river, pulling easily up the anabranch and floating down with the stream under the shade of the river timber--instead of going to sleep and waking up helpless and soaked in perspiration, to find the women with headaches, as many do on Christmas Day in Australia.