different between row vs phalanx

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English rewe, rowe, rawe, from Old English r?w, r?w, probably from Proto-Germanic *raiw?, *raigw?, *raih- (“row, streak, line”), from Proto-Indo-European *reyk- (“to carve, scratch, etch”). Cognate with dialectal Norwegian rå (“boundary line”), Middle Dutch r?e, Dutch rij (“row, line”), Old High German r?ga (“line”), rihan (“to string”), Middle High German rige (“line, row, ditch”), r?he (“row, line, corridor”), German Reihe (“row”), Middle Low German r?ge, r?ge, Old Norse rega (“string”), Middle Dutch r?ghe, Dutch rijg, rijge, German Riege (“sports team”).

Alternative forms

• rew (dialectal)

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: r?, IPA^(key): /????/
• (US) enPR: r?, IPA^(key): /??o?/
• Homophones: rho, roe
• Rhymes: -??

Noun

row (plural rows)

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

   Antonym: column

Synonyms

• (line of objects): line, sequence, series, succession, tier (of seats)
• (in a table): line

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English rowen (“to row”), from Old English r?wan (“to row”), from Proto-Germanic *r?an? (“to row”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?reh?- (“to row”). Compare West Frisian roeie, Dutch roeien, Danish ro. More at rudder.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: r?, IPA^(key): /???/
• (US) enPR: r?, IPA^(key): /?o?/
• Homophones: rho, roe
• Rhymes: -??

Verb

row (third-person singular simple present rows, present participle rowing, simple past and past participle rowed)

1. (transitive or intransitive, nautical) To propel (a boat or other craft) over water using oars.

   Synonym: paddle

2. (transitive) To transport in a boat propelled with oars.

3. (intransitive) To be moved by oars.

   The boat rows easily.

Derived terms

• get in the boat and row
• rowboat (see also rowing boat)

Translations

Noun

row (plural rows)

1. An act or instance of rowing.

2. (weightlifting) An exercise performed with a pulling motion of the arms towards the back.

Translations

Etymology 3

Unclear; some suggest it is a back-formation from rouse, verb.

Pronunciation

• enPR: rou, IPA^(key): /?a?/
• Rhymes: -a?

Noun

row (plural rows)

1. A noisy argument.

   Synonyms: argument, disturbance, fight, fracas, quarrel, shouting match, slanging match

2. A continual loud noise.

   Synonyms: din, racket

Translations

Verb

row (third-person singular simple present rows, present participle rowing, simple past and past participle rowed)

1. (intransitive) to argue noisily

   Synonyms: argue, fight

Translations

Anagrams

• Wor., wor

Lower Sorbian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *rov?. Cognate with Upper Sorbian row, Polish rów (“ditch”), Czech rov, Russian ??? (rov, “ditch”), Old Church Slavonic ???? (rov?, “ditch”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /r?w/, [row]

Noun

row m (diminutive rowk)

1. grave

Declension

Further reading

• row in Ernst Muka/Mucke (St. Petersburg and Prague 1911–28): S?ownik dolnoserbskeje r?cy a jeje nar?cow / Wörterbuch der nieder-wendischen Sprache und ihrer Dialekte. Reprinted 2008, Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag
• row in Manfred Starosta (1999): Dolnoserbsko-nimski s?ownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch. Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag.

Manx

Etymology

From an old perfective particle ro- + va.

Verb

row

1. was, were (dependent form)

Usage notes

Part of the substantive verb bee. This is the dependent form of the past tense va used after negative and interrogative particles:

1. • Cha row aggle erbee er.
     • He was not in the least afraid.
   • Dooyrt eh dy row eh mac y ree.
     • He claimed that he was the son of the king.

Old English

Alternative forms

• r?

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *r?u, from Proto-Germanic *r?w?. Cognate with Old Norse ró (“rest”) and German Ruhe (“quietness, rest, repose”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ro?w/

Noun

r?w f

1. quiet, rest, calm

Declension

Descendants

• Middle English: ro, rou, rowe, roo
  • English: roo
  • Scots: ro, ruve

References

• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) , “r?w”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Scots

Noun

row (plural rows)

1. roll

Derived terms

• row-cloth: a folding cloak of warm cloth

Upper Sorbian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *rov?.

Noun

row m

1. grave

Vilamovian

Pronunciation

Noun

r?w f (plural rowa)

1. rook (bird)
2. raven

Yola

Noun

row

1. Alternative form of reoue

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin phalanx or Ancient Greek ?????? (phálanx, “battle order, array”). Doublet of plank.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fe?.?læ?ks/, /?fæ.?læ?ks/
• Hyphenation: pha?lanx

Noun

phalanx (plural phalanxes or phalanges)

1. (historical, plural phalanxes) An ancient Greek and Macedonian military unit that consisted of several ranks and files (lines) of soldiers in close array with joined shields and long spears.
2. (historical sociology) A Fourierite utopian community; a phalanstery.
3. (plural phalanxes) A large group of people, animals or things, compact or closely massed, or tightly knit and united in common purpose.
4. (anatomy, plural phalanges) One of the bones of the finger or toe.

Synonyms

• (anatomy, bone of the finger or toe): phalange

Hyponyms

• (bone of the finger): distal phalanx, intermediate phalanx, proximal phalanx

Translations

Latin

Alternative forms

• falanx (later form)

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?????? (phálanx). Compare Latin phalanga.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?p?a.lanks/, [?p?ä??ä?ks?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?fa.lanks/, [?f??l??ks]

Noun

phalanx f (genitive phalangis); third declension

1. phalanx, battalion

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Related terms

• phalanga

Descendants

References

• phalanx in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• phalanx in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• phalanx in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[4], London: Macmillan and Co.
• phalanx in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• phalanx in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin