From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
row
n 1: an arrangement of objects or people side by side in a line;
"a row of chairs"
2: an angry dispute; "they had a quarrel"; "they had words"
[syn: quarrel, wrangle, row, words, run-in,
dustup]
3: a long continuous strip (usually running horizontally); "a
mackerel sky filled with rows of clouds"; "rows of barbed
wire protected the trenches"
4: (construction) a layer of masonry; "a course of bricks" [syn:
course, row]
5: a linear array of numbers, letters, or symbols side by side
6: a continuous chronological succession without an
interruption; "they won the championship three years in a
row"
7: the act of rowing as a sport [syn: rowing, row]
v 1: propel with oars; "row the boat across the lake"
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Row \Row\, a. & adv. [See Rough.]
Rough; stern; angry. [Obs.] "Lock he never so row."
--Chaucer.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Row \Row\, n. [Abbrev. fr. rouse, n.]
A noisy, turbulent quarrel or disturbance; a brawl. [Colloq.]
--Byron.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Row \Row\, n. [OE. rowe, rawe, rewe, AS. r[=a]w, r?w; probably
akin to D. rij, G. reihe; cf. Skr. r?kh[=a] a line, stroke.]
A series of persons or things arranged in a continued line; a
line; a rank; a file; as, a row of trees; a row of houses or
columns.
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And there were windows in three rows. --1 Kings vii.
4.
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The bright seraphim in burning row. --Milton.
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Row culture (Agric.), the practice of cultivating crops in
drills.
Row of points (Geom.), the points on a line, infinite in
number, as the points in which a pencil of rays is
intersected by a line.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Row \Row\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Rowed; p. pr. & vb. n.
Rowing.] [AS. r?wan; akin to D. roeijen, MHG. r["u]ejen,
Dan. roe, Sw. ro, Icel. r?a, L. remus oar, Gr. ?, Skr.
aritra. [root]8. Cf. Rudder.]
1. To propel with oars, as a boat or vessel, along the
surface of water; as, to row a boat.
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2. To transport in a boat propelled with oars; as, to row the
captain ashore in his barge.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Row \Row\, v. i.
1. To use the oar; as, to row well.
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2. To be moved by oars; as, the boat rows easily.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Row \Row\, n.
The act of rowing; excursion in a rowboat.
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From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008) [foldoc]:
record
fixed-width
records
row
<data, database, programming> An ordered set of fields,
usually stored contiguously. The term is used with similar
meaning in several different contexts. In a file, a "record"
probably has some fixed length, in contrast to a "line" which
may have any length and is terminated by some End Of Line
sequence). A database record is also called a "row". In a
spreadsheet it is always called a "row". Some programming
languages use the term to mean a type composed of fields of
several other types (C calls this a "struct").
In all these cases, a record represents an entity with certain
field values.
Fields may be of a fixed width (bits or characters) or
they may be separated by a delimiter character, often
comma (CSV) or HT (TSV).
In a database the list of values of a given field from all
records is called a column.
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