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English Dictionary: Row by the DICT Development Group
8 results for Row
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
row
n
  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"
    Synonym(s): quarrel, wrangle, row, 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"
    Synonym(s): course, row
  5. a linear array of numbers, letters, or symbols 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
    Synonym(s): rowing, row
v
  1. propel with oars; "row the boat across the lake"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Row \Row\, a. & adv. [See {Rough}.]
      Rough; stern; angry. [Obs.] [bd]Lock he never so row.[b8]
      --Chaucer.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Row \Row\, n. [Abbrev. fr. rouse, n.]
      A noisy, turbulent quarrel or disturbance; a brawl. [Colloq.]
      --Byron.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Row \Row\, n. [OE. rowe, rawe, rewe, AS. r[be]w, r[?]w; probably
      akin to D. rij, G. reihe; cf. Skr. r[?]kh[be] 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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Row \Row\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Rowed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Rowing}.] [AS. r[?]wan; akin to D. roeijen, MHG. r[81]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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Row \Row\, v. i.
      1. To use the oar; as, to row well.
  
      2. To be moved by oars; as, the boat rows easily.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Row \Row\, n.
      The act of rowing; excursion in a rowboat.

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   row
  
      {record}
  
  
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