row: Meaning and Definition of
row
Pronunciation: (rō), [key] — n.
- a number of persons or things arranged in a line, esp. a straight line: a row of apple trees.
- a line of persons or things so arranged: The petitioners waited in a row.
- a line of adjacent seats facing the same way, as in a theater: seats in the third row of the balcony.
- a street formed by two continuous lines of buildings.
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- one of the horizontal lines of squares on a checkerboard; rank.
- a difficult task or set of circumstances to confront: At 32 and with two children, she found attending medical school a hard row to hoe.
—v.t. - to put in a row (often fol. by up).
row
Pronunciation: (rō), [key] — v.i.
- to propel a vessel by the leverage of an oar or the like.
—v.t. - to propel (a vessel) by the leverage of an oar or the like.
- to convey in a boat that is rowed.
- to convey or propel (something) in a manner suggestive of rowing.
- to require, use, or be equipped with (a number of oars): The captain's barge rowed twenty oars.
- to use (oarsmen) for rowing.
- to perform or participate in by rowing: to row a race.
- to row against in a race: Oxford rows Cambridge.
—n. - an act, instance, or period of rowing: It was a long row to the far bank.
- an excursion in a rowboat: to go for a row.
row
Pronunciation: (rou), [key]
—v.i. - to quarrel noisily.
—v.t. - to upbraid severely; scold.
Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.