ROW

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does row mean? 

• ROW (noun)
  The noun ROW has 7 senses:

1. an arrangement of objects or people side by side in a line

2. an angry dispute

3. a long continuous strip (usually running horizontally)

4. (construction) a layer of masonry

5. a linear array of numbers, letters, or symbols side by side

6. a continuous chronological succession without an interruption

7. the act of rowing as a sport

  Familiarity information: ROW used as a noun is common.

• ROW (verb)
  The verb ROW has 1 sense:

1. propel with oars

  Familiarity information: ROW used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ROW (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An arrangement of objects or people side by side in a line

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Context example:

a row of chairs

Hypernyms ("row" is a kind of...):

line (a formation of people or things one beside another)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "row"):

serration (a row of notches)

terrace (a row of houses built in a similar style and having common dividing walls (or the street on which they face))

Sense 2

Meaning:

An angry dispute

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

dustup; quarrel; row; run-in; words; wrangle

Context example:

they had words

Hypernyms ("row" is a kind of...):

conflict; difference; difference of opinion; dispute (a disagreement or argument about something important)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "row"):

affray; altercation; fracas (noisy quarrel)

bicker; bickering; fuss; pettifoggery; spat; squabble; tiff (a quarrel about petty points)

bust-up (a serious quarrel (especially one that ends a friendship))

Sense 3

Meaning:

A long continuous strip (usually running horizontally)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Context example:

rows of barbed wire protected the trenches

Hypernyms ("row" is a kind of...):

strip (a relatively long narrow piece of something)

Sense 4

Meaning:

(construction) a layer of masonry

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

course; row

Context example:

a course of bricks

Hypernyms ("row" is a kind of...):

bed; layer (single thickness of usually some homogeneous substance)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "row"):

damp-proof course; damp course (a course of some impermeable material laid in the foundation walls of building near the ground to prevent dampness from rising into the building)

row of bricks (a course of bricks place next to each other (usually in a straight line))

Holonyms ("row" is a part of...):

wall (an architectural partition with a height and length greater than its thickness; used to divide or enclose an area or to support another structure)

Sense 5

Meaning:

A linear array of numbers, letters, or symbols side by side

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("row" is a kind of...):

array (an orderly arrangement)

Holonyms ("row" is a member of...):

table; tabular array (a set of data arranged in rows and columns)

Sense 6

Meaning:

A continuous chronological succession without an interruption

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Context example:

they won the championship three years in a row

Hypernyms ("row" is a kind of...):

chronological sequence; chronological succession; sequence; succession; successiveness (a following of one thing after another in time)

Sense 7

Meaning:

The act of rowing as a sport

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

row; rowing

Hypernyms ("row" is a kind of...):

athletics; sport (an active diversion requiring physical exertion and competition)

Meronyms (parts of "row"):

feather; feathering (turning an oar parallel to the water between pulls)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "row"):

crab (a stroke of the oar that either misses the water or digs too deeply)

sculling (rowing by a single oarsman in a racing shell)

Derivation:

row (propel with oars)

• ROW (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they row    ... he / she / it rows   
Past simple: rowed   
Past participle: rowed   
-ing form: rowing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Propel with oars

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Context example:

row the boat across the lake

Hypernyms (to "row" is one way to...):

boat (ride in a boat on water)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "row"):

stroke (row at a particular rate)

feather; square (turn the oar, while rowing)

pull (operate when rowing a boat)

scull (propel with sculls)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s PP

Sentence examples:

They row the river
They row down the river

Derivation:

row (the act of rowing as a sport)

rower (someone who rows a boat)

rowing (the act of rowing as a sport)

 Context examples 

“T’row down de club,” Perrault commanded.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Its position is just at that point where the street ceases, and the road begins to lie between a row of houses and the river.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Don’t I remember him in Hakodate two years gone, when he had a row an’ shot four iv his men?

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

There was a great row that night.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

It will be such a help to Laurie, for I can row, and Meg see to the lunch, and the children be useful in some way.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

A woman is said to be in menopause when she hasn’t had a period for 12 months in a row.

(Early menopause, NCI Dictionary)

A set of data arranged in rows and columns.

(Data Table, NCI Thesaurus)

The third or lateral wedge-shaped bone in the distal row of the tarsus.

(External Cuneiform Bone of the Foot, NCI Thesaurus)

The first or medial wedge-shaped bone in the distal row of the tarsus.

(Internal Cuneiform Bone of the Foot, NCI Thesaurus)

A short sequence of DNA, usually 1 to 4 basepairs (a unit of DNA), that is repeated together in a row along the DNA molecule.

(Microsatellite, NCI Dictionary)