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{
"term": "row",
"partOfSpeech": "noun",
"ox3000": true,
"cefr": "b1",
"image": "data/images/ho/hobbies_crafts.png",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "a number of people standing or sitting next to each other in a line; a number of objects arranged in a line",
"sensetop": "row of somebody/somethingin a rowrow upon row of somebody/something",
"cefr": "b1",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "There is a row of trees in front of the house.",
"contextForm": "row of somebody/something"
},
{
"text": "We sat in a row at the back of the room.",
"contextForm": "in a row"
},
{
"text": "The vegetables were planted in neat rows."
},
{
"text": "He looked down at row upon row of eager faces.",
"contextForm": "row upon row of somebody/something"
},
{
"text": "She arranged the chairs in two neat rows."
},
{
"text": "The children stood in a row."
},
{
"text": "endless rows of identical houses"
}
],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["bottom", "middle", "top"],
"preposition": ["in a/the row1", "row1 of"],
"phrases": [
"the end of the row",
"the middle of the row",
"rows and rows"
]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "a line of seats in a cinema, theatre, etc.",
"sensetop": "in the… row",
"cefr": "b1",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "Let's sit in the back row.",
"contextForm": "in the… row"
},
{
"text": "We have seats in the front row."
},
{
"text": "Our seats are five rows from the front."
}
],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["bottom", "middle", "top"],
"preposition": ["in a/the row1", "row1 of"],
"phrases": [
"the end of the row",
"the middle of the row",
"rows and rows"
]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "a line of numbers or words arranged one after the other across the page in a table",
"cefr": "b1",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "The top row of Table 2 shows the current values."
},
{
"text": "There are eight rows and four columns in the table."
},
{
"text": "You can insert rows between existing ones."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": 4,
"definition": "a complete line of stitches in knitting or crochet (= ways of making clothing, etc. out of wool)",
"examples": []
},
{
"senseNumber": 5,
"definition": "used in the name of some roads",
"examples": [
{
"text": "Manor Row"
},
{
"text": "I live at 22 Western Row."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": 6,
"definition": "an act of rowing a boat; the period of time spent doing this",
"examples": [
{
"text": "We went for a row on the lake."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "to have made all the preparations needed to do something; to be well organized",
"labels": "(especially North American English)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "The company has its ducks in a row for a move into the Asian market."
},
{
"text": "Get your ducks in a row before you retire."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "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",
"examples": [
{
"text": "This is her third win in a row."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "if something happens for several days, etc. in a row, it happens on each of those days",
"examples": [
{
"text": "Inflation has fallen for the third month in a row."
},
{
"text": "It rained for five days in a row."
}
]
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/rəʊ/",
"audio": "ro/row/row__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/rəʊz/",
"audio": "ro/row/rose__gb_3.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/rəʊ/",
"audio": "ro/row/row__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/rəʊz/",
"audio": "ro/row/rose__us_2.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "noun 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’."
}