Row vs Phalanx - What's the difference?

Row is a related term of phalanx.

As a noun row

is trench, ditch.

As a proper noun phalanx is

the brand name of a radar-controlled rapid fire 20mm machine gun, the phalanx ciws (pronounced see-wiz ), deployed on us navy ships as a last line of defense against antiship cruise missiles.

row

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) (m), (m), (m), from (etyl) .

Alternative forms

* (dialectal)

Noun

(en noun)

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

* Bible, 1 (w) vii. 4

And there were windows in three rows .

* (John Milton) (1608-1674)

The bright seraphim in burning row .

* , chapter=5

, title= 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.}}

A line of entries in a table, etc., going from left to right, as opposed to a column going from top to bottom.

Synonyms

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

Antonyms

* column

Derived terms

* long row to hoe

Etymology 2

From (etyl) . Compare West Frisian roeie, Dutch roeien, Danish ro. More at rudder.

Noun

(en noun)

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

Verb

(en verb)

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

To transport in a boat propelled with oars.

to row the captain ashore in his barge

To be moved by oars.

The boat rows easily.

Etymology 3

Unclear; some suggest it is a , verb.

Noun

(en noun)

A noisy argument.

* (Byron)

* , chapter=22

, title= 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.}}

* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)

, chapter=18 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?}}

A continual loud noise.

Synonyms

* (noisy argument) argument, disturbance, fight, fracas, quarrel, shouting match, slanging match * (continual loud noise) din, racket

Verb

(en verb)

to argue noisily

Synonyms

* (argue noisily) argue, fight

Anagrams

* English heteronyms English terms with multiple etymologies ----

phalanx

English

(Phalanx bone) (wikipedia phalanx)

Noun

(en-noun)

a large group of people, animals or things, compact or closely massed, or tightly knit and united in common purpose.

* 2007 , The Guardian, [http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,2073710,00.html]

There, the Paisleyites were being held back by another phalanx of soldiers and policemen.

* 2007 , The Guardian, [http://www.guardian.co.uk/freedom/Story/0,,2065311,00.html]

The Guardian today listed a phalanx of ministers who back the bill, including Tessa Jowell, the culture secretary, Tony McNulty, the policing minister, Andy Burnham, the junior health minister, Ian Pearson, the climate change minister, John Healey, the financial secretary to the Treasury, and Keith Hill, parliamentary private secretary to Tony Blair

One of the bones of the finger or toe.

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.

(historical sociology) A Fourierite utopian community; a phalanstery.

Synonyms

* phalange

Hyponyms

* (bone of the finger) distal phalanx, intermediate phalanx, proximal phalanx