Definitions for rows

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rows row

Spelling: [roh]

IPA: /roʊ/

Rows is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 18 anagrams from letters in rows (orsw).

Definitions for rows

noun

1. a number of persons or things arranged in a line, especially a straight line:
2. a line of persons or things so arranged:
3. a line of adjacent seats facing the same way, as in a theater:
4. a street formed by two continuous lines of buildings.
5. Music. tone row.
6. Checkers. one of the horizontal lines of squares on a checkerboard; rank.
7. an act, instance, or period of rowing:
8. an excursion in a rowboat:
9. a noisy dispute or quarrel; commotion.
10. noise or clamor.

Idioms

1. hard / long row to hoe, a difficult task or set of circumstances to confront:

verb (used with object)

1. to put in a row (often followed by up).
2. to propel (a vessel) by the leverage of an oar or the like.
3. to convey in a boat that is rowed.
4. to convey or propel (something) in a manner suggestive of rowing.
5. to require, use, or be equipped with (a number of oars):
6. to use (oarsmen) for rowing.
7. to perform or participate in by rowing:
8. to row against in a race:
9. Chiefly British. to upbraid severely; scold.

verb (used without object)

1. to propel a vessel by the leverage of an oar or the like.
2. to quarrel noisily.

Origin of rows

1175-1225; Middle English row(e); compare Old English rǣw

Examples for rows

Detainees forced to stand on broken legs, or go 180 hours in a row without sleep.

Doing three in a row got a momentum going and I want to keep that momentum going.

The train was drawn up, with hardly anybody about its row of open doors.

Later that day he made a call from the row of phones in the yard and reached his wife for the first time in six months.

First, seeing my father in the middle of his row crying, and thinking, Why is dad so upset?

This box was lined with a row of bunks, one above the other.

Then they disappeared like a row of post-holes into the distance.

In a row against the wall stood seven little beds recently covered with sheets.

A boat was got ready, and the captain got in, with four sailors to row.

I promise you I shall not, Mr. Bines; they can row if they like.