Rowest vs Growest - What's the difference?
rowest | growest |
(archaic) (row)
A line of objects, often regularly spaced, such as seats in a theatre, vegetable plants in a garden etc.
* Bible, 1 (w) vii. 4
* (John Milton) (1608-1674)
* , chapter=5
, title= A line of entries in a table, etc., going from left to right, as opposed to a column going from top to bottom.
(weightlifting) An exercise performed with a pulling motion of the arms towards the back.
(transitive, or, intransitive, nautical) To propel (a boat or other craft) over water using oars.
To transport in a boat propelled with oars.
To be moved by oars.
A noisy argument.
* (Byron)
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, chapter=18 A continual loud noise.
(grow)
(ergative) To become bigger.
To appear or sprout.
To cause or allow something to become bigger, especially to cultivate plants.
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, date=March 01
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(copulative) To assume a condition or quality over time.
(obsolete) To become attached or fixed; to adhere.
* Shakespeare
As verbs the difference between rowest and growest
is that rowest is archaic second-person singular of row while growest is archaic second-person singular of grow.rowest
English
Verb
(head)row
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), (m), (m), from (etyl) .Alternative forms
* (dialectal)Noun
(en noun)- And there were windows in three rows .
- The bright seraphim in burning row .
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=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.}}
Synonyms
* (line of objects) line, sequence, series, succession, tier (of seats) * (in a table) lineAntonyms
* columnDerived terms
* long row to hoeEtymology 2
From (etyl) . Compare West Frisian roeie, Dutch roeien, Danish ro. More at rudder.Noun
(en noun)Verb
(en verb)- to row the captain ashore in his barge
- The boat rows easily.
Etymology 3
Unclear; some suggest it is a , verb.Noun
(en noun)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=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.}}
citation, passage=‘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?}}
Synonyms
* (noisy argument) argument, disturbance, fight, fracas, quarrel, shouting match, slanging match * (continual loud noise) din, racketSynonyms
* (argue noisily) argue, fightgrowest
English
Verb
(head)grow
English
Verb
- Children grow quickly.
- Flowers grew on the trees as summer approached.
- A long tail began to grow from his backside.
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- He grows peppers and squash each summer in his garden.
- Have you ever grown your hair before?
- The boy grew wise as he matured.
- The town grew smaller and smaller in the distance as we travelled.
- You have grown strong.
- Our knees shall kneel till to the ground they grow .