Street vs Row - What's the difference?
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A paved part of road, usually in a village or a town.
A road as above but including the sidewalks (pavements) and buildings.
The people who live in such a road, as a neighborhood.
The people who spend a great deal of time on the street in urban areas, especially, the young, the poor, the unemployed, and those engaged in illegal activities.
(slang) Street talk or slang.
* 2008 , Andrew Fleming and Pam Brady, Hamlet 2 , Focus Features
(figuratively) A great distance.
* 2011 , Tom Fordyce, Rugby World Cup 2011: England 12-19 France [http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_union/15210221.stm]
(poker slang) Each of the three opportunities that players have to bet, after the flop, turn and river.
Illicit, contraband, especially of a drug
(slang) Having street cred; conforming to modern urban trends.
* 2003 , Mercedes Lackey, Rosemary Edghill, James P. Baen, Mad Maudlin
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)
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, 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.
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, chapter=18 A continual loud noise.
As nouns the difference between street and row
is that street is a paved part of road, usually in a village or a town while row is a line of objects, often regularly spaced, such as seats in a theatre, vegetable plants in a garden etc.As an adjective street
is having street cred; conforming to modern urban trends.As a proper noun Street
is {{surname}.As a verb row is
to propel (a boat or other craft) over water using oars.street
English
(wikipedia street)Alternative forms
* streeteAlternative forms
* (l), (l) (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- Walk down the street .
- I live on the street down from Joyce Avenue.
- Toaster is street for guns.
- He's streets ahead of his sister in all the subjects in school.
- England were once again static in their few attacks, only Tuilagi's bullocking runs offering any threat, Flood reduced to aiming a long-range drop-goal pit which missed by a street .
- I got some pot cheap on the street .
Usage notes
In the generical sense of "a road", the term is often used interchangeably with road, avenue, and other similar terms. In the English language, in its narrow usage street specifically means a paved route within a settlement (generally city or town), reflecting the etymology, while a road is a route between two settlements. Further, in many American cities laid out on a grid (notably Manhattan, New York City) streets are contrasted with avenues and run perpendicular to each other, with avenues frequently wider and longer than streets. In the sense of "a road", the prepositions in and on have distinct meanings when used with street, with "on the street" having idiomatic meaning in some dialects. In general for thoroughfares, "in" means "within the bounds of", while "on" means "on the surface of, especially traveling or lying", used relatively interchangeably ("don’t step in the road without looking", "I met her when walking on the road"). By contrast, "living on the street" means to be living an insecure life, often homeless or a criminal. Further, to "hear something on the street" means to learn through rumor, also phrased as "word on the street is...".Hyponyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* streetcar * streetcorner * streeted * streetfighter * streetlamp * streetlife * streetlight * streetscape * streetseller * streetwalker * streetward * streetwear * streetwise * streety * back street * civvy street * easy street * from the streets * high street * man on the street * one-way street * side street * street address * street art * street corner, * street cred, street credibility * street drug * street elbow * street food * street furniture * street hockey * street map * street market * street name * street racing * street smarts * street sweeper * street team * street urchin * take to the streets * two-way street * word on the street * Bay Street * Downing Street * Fleet Street * Harley Street * Lombard Street * Main Street * Queer Street * Threadneedle Street * Wall StreetAdjective
(en adjective)- Eric had to admit that she looked street —upscale street, but still street. Kayla's look tended to change with the seasons; at the moment it was less Goth than paramilitary, with laced jump boots.
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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?}}