Row vs Rae - What's the difference?
row | rae |
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)
* , chapter=22
, title= * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=18 A continual loud noise.
A variant of Roe.
A diminutive of Rachel, often used as a female middle name.
* 1965 Lewis Yablonsky, The Tunnel Back: Synamon , Macmillan 1965, page 204:
A male given name, a rare variant of Ray.
* 2005 , The Bradbury Chronicles: The Life of Ray Bradbury , William Morrow, ISBN 006054581X, page 12
As a noun row
is trench, ditch.As an adjective rae is
.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, fightrae
English
Proper noun
(en proper noun)- CHUCK. Joyce Mathews! I see and this girl's name is Rae' Edwards. What does '''Rae''' stand for? / CHRIS. '''Rae''', '''Rae'''! / CHUCK. Rachel? That's what I'm trying to find out; Sugar Ray? ' Rae doesn't mean too much to me. Hooray, Sugar Ray, etc. So her name is Rachael H? I see.
- Although the name on his birth certificate was spelled "Ray", Ray said he was originally given the name "Rae'" after ' Rae Williams, a cousin on his father's side.