Definition of the word row1

Pronunciation of vocabulary row1

row1noun

Hàng1

/rəʊ//rəʊ/

Origin of the word row1

Word Originnoun senses 1 to 4 Old English rāw, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch rij and German Reihe. noun sense 5 Old English rōwan, of Germanic origin; related to rudder; from an Indo-European root shared by Latin remus ‘oar’, Greek eretmon ‘oar’.

Example of vocabulary row1namespace

meaning

a number of people standing or sitting next to each other in a line; a number of objects arranged in a line

  • There is a row of trees in front of the house.
  • We sat in a row at the back of the room.
  • The vegetables were planted in neat rows.
  • He looked down at row upon row of eager faces.
Extra examples:
  • She arranged the chairs in two neat rows.
  • The children stood in a row.
  • endless rows of identical houses
meaning

a line of seats in a cinema, theatre, etc.

  • Let's sit in the back row.
  • We have seats in the front row.
  • Our seats are five rows from the front.
meaning

a line of numbers or words arranged one after the other across the page in a table

  • The top row of Table 2 shows the current values.
  • There are eight rows and four columns in the table.
  • You can insert rows between existing ones.
meaning

a complete line of stitches in knitting or crochet (= ways of making clothing, etc. out of wool)

meaning

used in the name of some roads

  • Manor Row
  • I live at 22 Western Row.
meaning

an act of rowing a boat; the period of time spent doing this

  • We went for a row on the lake.

Idioms of vocabulary row1

get/have (all) your ducks in a row
(especially North American English)to have made all the preparations needed to do something; to be well organized
  • The company has its ducks in a row for a move into the Asian market.
  • Get your ducks in a row before you retire.
    • in a row
    if something happens several times in a row, it happens in exactly the same way each time, and nothing different happens in the time between
  • This is her third win in a row.
    • if something happens for several days, etc. in a row, it happens on each of those days
  • Inflation has fallen for the third month in a row.
  • It rained for five days in a row.

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