单词 | row |
释义 | row I. intransitive verb 1. a. < got into the dinghy and rowed out to the sloop > b. < rowed on the varsity eight > c. < rows against the champions in the annual regatta > 2. archaic < no one shall find me rowing against the stream … I write for general amusement — Sir Walter Scott > 3. < as the boats rowed in … we could hear groans and lamentations — Kenneth Roberts > < pelicans row by on slow, powerful wings — Juana Vogt > transitive verb 1. a. < row a boat > b. < the ceremonial barge rowed 14 oars > c. (1) < row a race > (2) < rows the champion in the regatta > (3) < rowed stroke for the class crew > 2. < charged a small fee to row us across the river > < sailors on shore leave row their girls around the lake in the park > II. < go for a row on the lake > III. chiefly Scotland variant of raw IV. 1. a. < a double row of sodium vapor highway lamps — American Guide Series: Virginia > b. < utter … rows of platitudes — Joyce Cary > < won the state tourney for four years in a row — Bulletin of Bates College > c. 2. archaic < an only daughter … who is, at least, approaching the old maid's row — Manasseh Cutler > 3. obsolete < the first row of the pious chanson — Shakespeare > 4. a. < street after street exactly alike, lined with rows — T.F.Hamlin > b. < on Catfish row and down Ramcat Alley — Shelby Foote > < two of the island's main arteries, Royal Poinciana Way and Coconut row — Walter Cartwright > c. < in most cities a separate automobile row has arisen on the edge of the central business district — C.D.Harris & E.L.Ullman > < rumors fly along diplomatic row > < zigzag from movie house to movie house like a barfly on whiskey row — Nathaniel Bart > 5. a. < a pair of seats in the fifth row center > b. < hoe between the rows > c. < row totals are added to get the column total > d. < a row of knitting > e. (1) < there is usually one row of pile tufts for each cycle of back weaving > (2) • - a row to hoe V. < above the … heads of the students rowed before me — Ralph Ellison > < a bare room rowed with dusty windows — R.M.Coates > VI. 1. a. < a first-class row between a brutal ranger … and an inoffensive citizen — S.E.White > b. < a terrific row … between husband and wife because the former put a 15¢ stamp too much on a letter — H.J.Laski > < during the recent row over atomic-energy legislation their feuding was epic — Alfred Friendly > 2. slang chiefly Britain a. < would make a beastly row with that instrument — F.M.Ford > b. < she give him a big apple to shut his row — Richard Llewellyn > Synonyms: see brawl VII. transitive verb 1. archaic 2. chiefly Britain < row ed the driver about the fare — McClure's > intransitive verb < wrangled and rowed with … other editors — W.A.White > |
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