row

noun

1. A line of objects, often regularly spaced, such as seats in a theatre, vegetable plants in a garden, etc.

   “And there were windows in three rows.”

   “The bright seraphim in burning row.”

   “Here, in the transept and choir, where the service was being held, one was conscious every moment of an increasing brightness; colours glowing vividly beneath the circular chandeliers, and the rows of small lights on the choristers' desks flashed and sparkled in front of the boys' faces, deep linen collars, and red neckbands.”

2. A horizontal line of entries in a table, etc., going from left to right, as opposed to a column going from top to bottom.
3. (abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, in-plural, slang)Clipping of cornrow.

   “Vyreen had just finished braiding my hair, and his call had caught me coming out of her crib with my 'rows looking tight.”

   “If you thought it'd be hard to get a good cornrow braiding in Latvia, think again. Porzingis said he was re-braided almost every week to keep his rows fresh.”

4. An act or instance of rowing.

   “I went for an early-morning row.”

5. Any of several thematically similar exercise movements performed with a pulling motion of the arms towards the back.
6. (UK)A noisy argument.

   “There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row.”

   “In the autumn there was a row at some cement works about the unskilled labour men. A union had just been started for them and all but a few joined. One of these blacklegs was laid for by a picket and knocked out of time.”

   “As a rule, you see, I'm not lugged into Family Rows. On the occasions when Aunt is calling to Aunt like mastodons bellowing across primeval swamps and Uncle James's letter about Cousin Mabel's peculiar behaviour is being shot round the family circle... the clan has a tendency to ignore me.”

   “‘Then the father has a great fight with his terrible conscience,’ said Munday with granite seriousness. ‘Should he make a row with the police […]? Or should he say nothing about it and condone brutality for fear of appearing in the newspapers?”

   “[…]he wrote to me last week telling me about an incredible bitch of a row blazing there on account of someone having been and gone and produced an unofficial magazine called Raddled, full of obscene libellous Oz-like filth. And what I though, what Sammy and I thought, was—why not?”

7. (UK)A continual loud noise.

   “Who's making that row?”

8. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable)Initialism of run of week.
9. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable)Initialism of rest of world.
10. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable)Initialism of right of way.

    “In some of these areas, the road ROWs are also adjacent to existing aboveground MVEC distribution lines, which are shown on maps in Appendix A. […] Great River Energy will require a new 100-foot-wide ROW for construction and maintenance of the Transmission Line.”

11. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable)Initialism of rest of world

verb

1. (intransitive, transitive)To propel (a boat or other craft) over water using oars.
2. (transitive)To transport in a boat propelled with oars.

   “to row the captain ashore in his barge”

3. (intransitive)To be moved by oars.

   “The boat rows easily.”

4. (intransitive)To argue noisily.

name

1. A surname.
2. (abbreviation, alt-of, colloquial, ellipsis, historical)Ellipsis of Paternoster Row, a former street in London, England, that was a centre of the publishing trade.
3. (abbreviation, alt-of, colloquial, ellipsis)Ellipsis of Savile Row, a street in London, England, known for its traditional bespoke tailoring.

   “Three points about this unobtrusive person showed promptly to the exercised eye that he was not a Row man pur sang. First, an irrepressible wrinkle or two in the waist of his frock-coat—denoting that he had not damned his tailor sufficiently to drive that tradesman up to the orthodox high pressure of cunning workmanship.”

   “Its mission is to protect and promote the art of bespoke tailoring on The Row.”