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row
noun
mainly UKuk /raʊ/ us /raʊ/

rownoun (ARGUMENT)

[ C ]
a noisy argument or fight: 高声争吵;激烈打斗
My parents often have rows, but my dad does most of the shouting.我父母经常吵架，但大部分时间都是我爸在那儿扯着嗓子嚷嚷。
What was a political row over government policy on Europe is fast becoming a diplomatic row between France and Britain.这本来是一场关于政府对欧洲政策的政治争论，却很快演变成法国和英国两国之间的外交摩擦。

Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

an argument
argumentI don't want to get into an argument with you about this.
disagreementThere was a disagreement over who should pay the bill.
quarrelThere were bitter quarrels between the two neighbours.
rowUKMy parents had a row about money.
squabbleI'm always dealing with squabbles between the children.
tiffShe had a tiff with her boyfriend last night.
They had an awful row several years ago, but now they've resolved their differences.
There was an almighty row when I asked them to leave.我让他们离开时，他们大吵大闹起来。
We had a flaming row over it last night.昨晚我们为了这事大吵了一架。
Did you manage to patch things up with Jackie after your row?
They have massive rows because they're both so stubborn.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Arguments & disagreements
argument
argy-bargy
be (on) non-speakersidiom
belligerence
bickering
blow (someone/something) up
bust up
clash
contentiousness
cut and thrustidiom
ding-dong
dispute
dust-up
hostility
kerfuffle
logjam
pile
rhubarb
ructions
spat

rownoun (NOISE)

[ S ]
loud noise: 大的噪音，响声，闹声
I can't concentrate because of the row the builders are making.建筑工人弄出那么大噪声，我没法集中注意力。

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Noise & noisy
abuzz
bang something out
barky
bash something out
blast
boisterously
brouhaha
clamour
clatter
disturbance
loudly
noisy
rackety
resonant
ring out
ring with something
rowdily
rowdiness
rowdy
strident
row
verb[ I ]
mainly UKinformaluk /raʊ/ us /raʊ/
to argue, especially loudly: （尤指大声地）争吵，吵闹
My parents are always rowing (about/over money).我父母总是（为了钱的事情）吵个不休。

Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

to argue with someone
argueThe kids are always arguing about something.
have an argumentI had an argument with my sister.
fightThe two sides continue to fight over control of the assembly.
quarrelStop quarrelling, you two!
rowUKMy parents were always rowing about money.
squabbleThey are still squabbling over who will get the big office.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Arguing & disagreeing
agent provocateur
aggressor
alienate
alienated
argue with someone
argumentatively
bone
conflict
differ
flame
hammer
lock hornsidiom
non-circular
non-consensual
pick
piggy in the middle
provocateur
quibble
says who?idiom
the fur fliesidiom

row | American Dictionary

row
noun[ C ]
us/roʊ/

rownoun[C] (LINE)

a line of things arranged next to each other:
Everybody lined up in a neat little row.
I want to sit in the front row.
 in a row
If something happens a number of times in a row, it happens that many times without interruption:
They’ve won six games in a row.
row
verb[ I/T ]
us/roʊ/

rowverb[I/T] (MOVE IN WATER)

to cause a boat to move by pushing against the water with oars (= long poles with flat ends), or to move people in a boat in this way:
[ T ]Dad rowed us back to shore.

rowing

noun[ U ]us/ˈroʊ·ɪŋ/
Sarah won an Olympic medal in rowing.

Examples of row

row
Plots were surrounded by a single guard row between them.
The participants were told that they would hear each sentence four times in a row, with less noise on each successive presentation.
The trees in the outer most rows of each block were excluded to avoid any border effects.
Supply-side options are shown in the rows of table 1, and are put under two subheadings: carbon and carbon-neutral.
Representing each band as a list of numbers makes it difficult to extract and perform row operations efficiently.
Within minutes, seven men, several dressed in suits and ties, marched in, one by one, and stood in a row behind us.
It may simply be that a sentence with two adverbs in a row is not very elegant and is stylistically awkward.
Similarly, changing the relative magnitude of aggregate supply and demand elasticities in the fourth and fifth rows does not destroy the incentives for activism.
The single spicule is 1152 to 1392 long, and 16 caudal spines are arranged in two ventral and two lateral rows, each bearing four spines.
The stimuli are arranged by rows, while the responses are given in columns.
The stimuli are arranged in rows, while the responses are arranged in columns.
We still find three columns of cavitons per waveguide, but arranged in ten rows.
On this task, five rows of five digits, arranged in different orders, were presented.
In other words, the forward substitution accesses the matrix row by row, whilst the backward substitution performs access in a column by column manner.
Furthermore, while two rows of scrolls wrap around the exterior, the scrolls do not form zoomorphs.
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Collocations withrow

row

These are words often used in combination with row.

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bottom row
The results for the point vortices are in the bottom row.
double row
Fifteen spines are located dorsally in a double row (fig. 14).
front row
And, as often happens at events such as these, the entire cabinet was seated in the front row.
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