'Row' definitions:
Definition of 'row'
From: WordNet
noun
An arrangement of objects or people side by side in a line; "a row of chairs"
noun
An angry dispute; "they had a quarrel"; "they had words" [syn: quarrel, wrangle, row, words, run-in, dustup]
noun
A long continuous strip (usually running horizontally); "a mackerel sky filled with rows of clouds"; "rows of barbed wire protected the trenches"
noun
(construction) a layer of masonry; "a course of bricks" [syn: course, row]
noun
A linear array of numbers, letters, or symbols side by side
noun
A continuous chronological succession without an interruption; "they won the championship three years in a row"
noun
The act of rowing as a sport [syn: rowing, row]
verb
Propel with oars; "row the boat across the lake"
Definition of 'Row'
From: GCIDE
- Row \Row\, a. & adv. [See Rough.] Rough; stern; angry. [Obs.] "Lock he never so row." --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Row'
From: GCIDE
- Row \Row\, n. [Abbrev. fr. rouse, n.] A noisy, turbulent quarrel or disturbance; a brawl. [Colloq.] --Byron. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Row'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- And there were windows in three rows. --1 Kings vii. 4. [1913 Webster]
- The bright seraphim in burning row. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Row'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To transport in a boat propelled with oars; as, to row the captain ashore in his barge. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Row'
From: GCIDE
- Row \Row\, v. i.
- 1. To use the oar; as, to row well. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To be moved by oars; as, the boat rows easily. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Row'
From: GCIDE
- Row \Row\, n. The act of rowing; excursion in a rowboat. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'row'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- ado,
- advance,
- affray,
- agitation,
- align,
- alley,
- alleyway,
- altercation,
- array,
- arterial,
- arterial highway,
- arterial street,
- artery,
- articulation,
- Autobahn,
- autoroute,
- autostrada,
- avenue,
- bank,
- barney,
- bawl out,
- be noisy,
- bedlam,
- Bedlam let loose,
- 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,
- Indian file,
- 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 a clamor,
- raise Cain,
- 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,
- US highway,
- voyage,
- whoop it up,
- wildness,
- windrow,
- wrangle,
- wynd,
- yacht,
- yap,
- zeal,
- zealousness