Dictionary Definition
row
Noun
1 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] v : propel with oars;
"row the boat across the lake"
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Noun
Translations
line of objects
- Arabic:
- Bosnian: red
- Chinese: 排 (pái)
- Czech: řada
- Danish: række , rad
- Dutch: rij
- Finnish: rivi
- French: ligne , rang , rangée
- German: Reihe
- Hungarian: sor
- Italian: fila
- Japanese: 列 (れつ, retsu)
- Korean: 줄 (jul)
- Kurdish:
- Portuguese: fila
- Russian: ряд (rjad)
- Serbian:
- Spanish: fila
- Swedish: rad
- Telugu: వరుస (varusa)
in a table
Translations
Verb
Translations
transitive:to propel over water using oars
intransitive: to propel a boat or other craft
over water using oars
- Czech: veslovat
Etymology 3
Unclear; some suggest it is a , verb.Pronunciation
- , /raʊ/, /raU/
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- Rhymes with: -aʊ
Noun
- A noisy argument.
- A continual loud noise.
- Who's making that row?
Synonyms
- (noisy argument): argument, disturbance, fight, fracas, quarrel, shouting match, slanging match
- (continual loud noise): din, racket
Translations
noisy argument
continual loud noise
Verb
- To argue noisily.
Translations
intransitive: to argue noisily
- Danish: skændes, skælde ud
- Finnish: riidellä
- German: any of the translations above for "noisy argument" followed by machen or by veranstalten or by verursachen
- Portuguese: discutir
- Swedish: gräla, bråka
Extensive Definition
Row may refer to:
- A series of items placed in a row (or line)
- Row (database), a single, implicitly structured data item in a table.
- Tone row, in music, a permutation, an arrangement or ordering, of the twelve notes of the chromatic scale
- Row (cryptozoology), a dinosaur-like cryptid reportedly found in New Guinea
- Row (weight-lifting), a form of weight-lifting exercise
ROW may also refer to:
See also
- Rowing (disambiguation)
row in German: Reihe
row in Russian: Ряд
row in Slovak: Rad
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Autobahn, Bedlam let loose,
Indian file, US highway, ado, advance, affray, agitation, align, alley, alleyway, altercation, array, arterial, arterial highway,
arterial street, artery,
articulation,
autoroute, autostrada, avenue, bank, barney, bawl out, be noisy,
bedlam, beef, belt highway, berate, bicker, bickering, blast, blind alley, bluster, boat, bobbery, boil, boiling, bother, boulevard, bowl, brawl, broil, brouhaha, bump heads, bunt, bustle, butt, buzz, bypass, byway, cacophony, camino real,
canoe, carpet, carriageway, carry sail,
catch a crab, catena,
catenation, caterwaul, causeway, causey, chain, chain reaction, chaining, chaos, charivari, chaussee, chew out, chirm, churn, circumferential,
circumnavigate,
clamor, clangor, clap, clatter, close, coast, commotion, concatenation, connection, consecution, continuum, conturbation, corduroy
road, county road, course, court, crescent, cross, cruise, cul-de-sac, cut a crab,
cycle, dead-end street,
descent, dike, din, dirt road, discomposure, discord, disorder, dispute, disquiet, disquietude, disturbance, donnybrook, donnybrook fair,
drive, driveway, drone, drunken brawl, dustup, ebullition, echelon, embroilment, endless belt,
endless round, excitement, expressway, fall out,
falling-out, fanaticism, feather, feather an oar,
ferment, fermentation, fever, feverishness, fidgets, fight, file, filiation, flap, flurry, fluster, flutteration, foment, fomentation, foofaraw, forward, fracas, fray, free-for-all, freeway, frenzy, fume, furor, furore, fury, fuss, gamut, give way, go by ship, go on
shipboard, go to sea, gob,
gradation, gravel
road, hassle, hell broke
loose, helter-skelter, highroad, highway, highways and byways,
howl, hubbub, hue and cry, hullabaloo, hum, hurly-burly, impel, inquietude, interstate
highway, jangle, jaw, jitters, jumpiness,
knock-down-and-drag-out, lane, line, line up, lineage, local road, lock horns,
loud noise, maelstrom,
maffick, main drag, main
road, make a noise, make a passage, make a racket, make a row, make
an uproar, malaise,
melee, mews, moil, monotone, motorboat, motorway, move, mush, navigate, nerviness, nervosity, nervousness, nexus, noise, noise and shouting,
oar, order, outcry, pace, paddle, pandemonium, parkway, passion, pave, paved road, pedal, pell-mell, pendulum, periodicity, perturbation, pike, place, plank road, plenum, ply, ply the oar, pole, pother, powder train, primary
highway, private road, progression, propel, pull, punt, push, queue, racket, rage, raise Cain, raise a clamor,
raise hell, raise the devil, raise the roof, rampage, range, rank, rattle, ream out, recurrence, restlessness, reticulation, rhubarb, right-of-way, ring
road, riot, road, roadbed, roadway, roar, roil, roll, rotation, rough-and-tumble,
roughhouse, round, rout, route nationale, routine, row away, row dry,
royal road, ruckus,
ruction, rumble, rumpus, run, run-in, sail, sail round, sail the sea,
scale, scramble, scrap, scrimmage, scud, scull, seafare, secondary road,
seethe, seething, sequel, sequence, series, set-to, shindy, ship oars, shivaree, shoot, shove, shunt, single file, sky an oar,
spat, spectrum, speedway, squabble, state highway,
steam, steamboat, stir, storminess, street, string, string out, succession, superhighway, swath, sweep, sweep along, swirl, take a voyage, tempestuousness,
terrace, thoroughfare, thread, through street, thrust, thruway, thunder, thunderclap, tier, tiff, tintamarre, to-do, toll road,
tongue-lash, township road, train, trap, traverse, treadle, trepidation, trepidity, troll, trouble, trundle, tumult, tumultuation, tumultuousness, turbidity, turbulence, turmoil, turnpike, twitter, unease, unrest, uproar, upset, voyage, whoop it up, wildness, windrow, wrangle, wynd, yacht, yap, zeal, zealousness