| 单词 | row |
| 释义 | row row1 /roh/, n. 1. a number of persons or things arranged in a line, esp. a straight line: a row of apple trees. 2. a line of persons or things so arranged: The petitioners waited in a row. 3. a line of adjacent seats facing the same way, as in a theater: seats in the third row of the balcony. 4. a street formed by two continuous lines of buildings. 5. Music. See tone row. 6. Checkers. one of the horizontal lines of squares on a checkerboard; rank. 7. hard or long row to hoe, 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. 8. to put in a row (often fol. by up). [1175-1225; ME row(e); cf. OE raew] row2 —rowable, adj. —rower, n. /roh/, v.i. 1. to propel a vessel by the leverage of an oar or the like. v.t. 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): The captain's barge rowed twenty oars. 6. to use (oarsmen) for rowing. 7. to perform or participate in by rowing: to row a race. 8. to row against in a race: Oxford rows Cambridge. n. 9. an act, instance, or period of rowing: It was a long row to the far bank. 10. an excursion in a rowboat: to go for a row. [bef. 950; ME rowen, OE rowan; c. ON roa; akin to L remus oar (see REMUS). Cf. rudder] row3 /row/, n. 1. a noisy dispute or quarrel; commotion. 2. noise or clamor. v.i. 3. to quarrel noisily. v.t. 4. Chiefly Brit. to upbraid severely; scold. [1740-50; orig. uncert.] Syn. 1. spat, tiff, scrap, scrape, set-to. |
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