Rowest vs Rawest - What's the difference?
rowest | rawest |
(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)
* , chapter=22
, title= * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=18 A continual loud noise.
(raw)
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 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:
Of weather: unpleasantly damp or cold.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) Not covered; bare; bald.
* Spenser
(slang) Without a condom.
(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,
* 1921 , , The Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry , Volume 13, Part 1,
* 1939 , The Commercial and Financial Chronicle , Volume 148, Part 2,
As a verb rowest
is (archaic) (row).As an adjective rawest is
(raw).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, fightrawest
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Adjective
(head)Anagrams
* *raw
English
Adjective
(er)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. […]’}}
- What makes Mexico worrying is not just the raw numbers but the power of the cartels over society.
- a raw wind
- a raw and gusty day
- with scull all raw
Synonyms
* See also * (without a condom)Derived terms
* (l)Adverb
(head)Noun
(en noun)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.
page 149,
- Early in the year the raws were melted to about 20 Brix in order to facilitate filtration.
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.