Rowest vs Rawest - What's the difference?

rowest | rawest |

As a verb rowest

is (archaic) (row).

As an adjective rawest is

(raw).

rowest

English

Verb

(head)

(archaic) (row)

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 ----

rawest

English

Adjective

(head)

(raw)

Anagrams

* *

raw

English

Adjective

(er)

Of food: not cooked.

Not treated or processed (of materials, products etc.); in a natural state, unrefined, unprocessed.

Having had the skin removed or abraded; chafed, tender; exposed, lacerated.

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

, chapter=7 citation , passage=‘Children crawled over each other like little grey worms in the gutters,’ he said. ‘The only red things about them were their buttocks and they were raw . Their faces looked as if snails had slimed on them and their mothers were like great sick beasts whose byres had never been cleared. […]’}}

New or inexperienced.

Crude in quality; rough, uneven, unsophisticated.

Of data, statistics etc: uncorrected, without analysis.

* 2010 , "Under the volcano", (The Economist), 16 Oct 2010:

What makes Mexico worrying is not just the raw numbers but the power of the cartels over society.

Of weather: unpleasantly damp or cold.

a raw wind

* Shakespeare

a raw and gusty day

(obsolete) Not covered; bare; bald.

* Spenser

with scull all raw

Synonyms

* See also * (without a condom)

Derived terms

* (l)

Adverb

(head)

(slang) Without a condom.

Noun

(en noun)

(sugar refining, sugar trade) An unprocessed sugar; a batch of such.

* 1800 , Louisiana Sugar Planters' Association, Lousiana Sugar Chemists' Association, American Cane Growers' Association, The Louisiana Planter and Sugar Manufacturer , Volume 22, page 287,

With the recent advance in London yellow crystals, however, the disproportion of the relative value of these two kinds has been considerably reduced, and a better demand for crystallized raws should consequently occur.

* 1921 , , The Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry , Volume 13, Part 1, page 149,

Early in the year the raws were melted to about 20 Brix in order to facilitate filtration.

* 1939 , The Commercial and Financial Chronicle , Volume 148, Part 2, page 2924,

The world sugar contract closed 1 to 3 points net higher, with sales of only 36 lots. London raws sold at 8s. 4½d., and futures there were unchanged to 3d. higher.

Anagrams

* *