Row vs Procession - What's the difference?
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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.
The act of progressing or proceeding.
* Trench
A group of people or things moving along in an orderly, stately, or solemn manner; a train of persons advancing in order; a retinue.
* Shakespeare
A number of things happening in sequence (in space or in time).
(ecclesiastical, obsolete, in the plural) Litanies which were said in procession and not kneeling.
To take part in a procession
(dated) To honour with a procession.
(transitive, legal, US, North Carolina and Tennessee) To ascertain, mark, and establish the boundary lines of (lands).
* Burrill
Row is a related term of procession.
As nouns the difference between row and procession
is that row is trench, ditch while procession is the act of progressing or proceeding.As a verb procession is
to take part in a procession.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, fightprocession
English
(wikipedia procession)Noun
(en noun)- (Bishop Pearson)
- That the procession of their life might be / More equable, majestic, pure, and free.
- a procession''' of mourners; the Lord Mayor's '''procession
- the townsmen on procession
- (Shipley)
Derived terms
* proceed * process * processionalSee also
* march-past * fly-past * cavalcade * motorcade * -cade * cortege * paradeVerb
(en verb)- To procession the lands of such persons as desire it.