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ROW

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of rowing as a sport

Synonyms:

row; rowing

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

(construction) a layer of masonry

Example:

a course of bricks

Synonyms:

course; row

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

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 3

Meaning:

A continuous chronological succession without an interruption

Example:

they won the championship three years in a row

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

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

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

Sense 4

Meaning:

An angry dispute

Example:

they had words

Synonyms:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

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 5

Meaning:

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

Example:

a row of chairs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

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 6

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 7

Meaning:

A long continuous strip (usually running horizontally)

Example:

rows of barbed wire protected the trenches

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

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

strip (a relatively long narrow piece of something)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Propel with oars

Example:

row the boat across the lake

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

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)

Credits

 Context examples: 

These ranged from a general lack of happiness in the relationship to rows and other kinds of conflict.

(Prenatal parental stress linked to behaviour problems in toddlers, University of Cambridge)

Further discoveries would likely add a new row on the table.

(IUPAC proposes four new chemical element names, Wikinews)

At last I saw them hire a boat and start for a row, for it was a very hot day, and they thought, no doubt, that it would be cooler on the water.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There were four of them in a row, three of which were simply dirty, while the fourth was shuttered up.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"But I didn't want a row with Mr. Higginbotham, and that is what would have surely happened."

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Beautiful green flowers stood in the windows, and there was a shelf with a row of little green books.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

Its long, savage mouth, which was held half-open, was full of a double row of shark-like teeth.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She stood at the bottom of the long room, on the hearth; for there was a fire at each end; she surveyed the two rows of girls silently and gravely.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

“The brief window of summer would have barely been sufficient for rowing the many hundreds of miles north and back.”

(Over-hunting walruses contributed to the collapse of Norse Greenland, University of Cambridge)

A matrix with rows and columns labeled by graph vertices, with a 1 or 0 in position (vi,vj) according to whether vi and vj are adjacent or not.

(Adjacency Matrix, NCI Thesaurus)