I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a rowing boat British English
blazing row (= very angry argument )
death row
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a murderer on death row
defuse a situation/crisis/row etc
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Beth’s quiet voice helped to defuse the situation.
front seat/row
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We got there an hour early in order to get seats in the front row.
massive argument/row etc British English
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I had a massive argument with her.
row a boat
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Are you any good at rowing a boat?
row house
rowing boat
rowing machine
skid row
the bottom row
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That’s me in the middle of the bottom row of the photograph.
unholy row
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An unholy row broke out between two of the men drinking in the bar.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
back
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Behind such a solid platform Toulon's back row of Melville, Louvet and Loppy thrived, roaming the field with impunity.
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His grin spoke volumes to the back row .
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Some sat in the back rows of the chapel like recalcitrant fourth-formers.
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At times like this the back row inclined to craven panic.
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Benny reddened at the stares, but Nan had left the two admirers and was bounding up to the back row .
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The back row broke out in its loudest laughter yet.
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A teacher in the back row could hardly contain herself.
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There was a scramble for chairs in the back rows , but I was not one of the lucky ones.
double
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On the other side of the double row of barbed wire a guard was standing still holding his rifle at the ready.
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It is a double row of fine, tall and expansive Victorian terraced villas and looks as if it is straight out of London.
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This clever device produces a parallel double row on one side and a single row of zigzag stitches on the other.
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The second turning starts at the outside edge turning the whole field including the double row towards the hedgerow.
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Its staring eyes and double row of fangs feature in many religious icons, and its skin has magical healing properties.
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As they stood and ate, a double row of warm yellow lights sprang into life and illuminated Beda Fomm.
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A Smarty number in the middle and a double row round the edge.
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Salvation Street was on his left, a double row of cottages which cut across the low neck of land.
front
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He would treat himself to a seat in the front row .
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He knew he could abuse the front row as much as he wanted.
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A year earlier, he qualified on the front row of the F1 grid in a Formula Two Matra.
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Hector sits in the back seat of the front row , nearest the door.
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I suggest that the front row of the chorus at the Folies Berge res would have been a better place.
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Miss Rose and Uncle Billy; holding hands on the front row .
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Don t sit in the front row , unless you re a masochist.
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Out of deference to me, and for the eventual eradication of our corneas, we sat in the absolute front row .
■ NOUN
death
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Women guards supervise showering and conduct body searches on male death row .
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Instead he fairly hustled his big body along, as if it were a laggardly prisoner he was escorting down death row .
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Only two death row inmates have been put to death since then, and both men chose to call off their appeals.
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The picture has an odd formality to it, a portrait of the Madonna on death row .
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He is on death row awaiting execution for a non-political murder.
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Despite attempts to curb the number of appeals, death row waits are growing.
house
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Then footage of police, some in uniform, some not, gathered on the stoop of a row house .
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Narrow, two-story, brick row houses flanked the pump works on either side.
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The old row house is just a memory.
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The apartment to which she and Uncle Allen welcomed us was in a declining row house on Wakeman Avenue.
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Rob DeGraff ditched his roomy house and 10, 000 square-foot lot for a row house with a patch of yard.
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They still lived in the row house with their 1955 station wagon.
■ VERB
knit
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Now you're ready to knit the next row and that's all there is to it.
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Set the back carriage to knit and knit four rows .
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Hold this end of the yarn lightly to stop it jumping off the needles and knit a row .
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Using at least two full sizes tighter than main tension, knit the number of rows given in pattern for rib.
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That is all it does, once the stitches have been transferred, the main carriage will knit the row .
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Transfer alternate stitches and knit two rows of stocking stitch throughout, always transferring in the same direction.
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Push 30 needles at left to hold. Knit one row .
sit
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Peter Jacobsen probably likes to sit in the front row at movies and be there in time for the trailers.
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In the stalls Timothy Gedge sat three rows behind the children from Sea House, with the carrier-bag by his feet.
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Frank sat one row above him and slightly to the side, drinking an orangeade.
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They sat on the second row of choir benches to the left of the altar.
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Most graduates of Harvard Business School sat in the front row .
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Then they were sat down in neat rows , boys on one side and girls on the other.
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Elmer sat primly behind the rows of photographs, his hands folded beside a dummy of the current front page.
stand
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They stood in three rows of five, to be counted and then marched forward.
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I circled the house at a distance, passed through the orchard into the garden and stood amid the rows of broccoli.
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A fleet of elevators stood neatly in a row inside the swing doors.
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For the last minutes of the film, Marge and Rowena stood behind the last row of seats.
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They stand in a straight row , neat and orderly, facing south.
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You know my dad, can't stand rows .
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Stephansdom, and pastel century-old apartments standing in a tight row like a chorus line.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a flaming row/temper
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And this caused a flaming row at the school debating society.
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I was a girl in a flaming temper.
almighty din/crash/row etc
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And certainly there would be the most almighty row if Clarke got the push.
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Before he got half way, they dropped with an almighty crash on to the stone floor.
be on skid row
kick up a fuss/stink/row
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It's financial clout that counts or, failing that, kicking up a stink.
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It's for your protection, so that you have the union behind you if Mellowes kicks up a stink.
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It might be partly because I didn't kick up a fuss when I lost the captaincy.
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It will still contain plenty of business and mortgage borrowers to kick up a stink about base rates.
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Yet when pedestrianisation was first announced the city's shopkeepers, taxi drivers and disabled groups kicked up a fuss.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A few months ago they had a big row , and Steve drove off and spent the weekend in London.
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Can you see me in the photo? I'm in the back row on the left.
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Gabrielle found a seat in the front row .
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Julie arranged her perfumes and creams in neat rows on the dressing table.
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The back wall was covered with row upon row of files.
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The couple in the house next door were having a blazing row .
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The hotel staff stood in a row to greet their important guests.
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The newspapers are full of stories about the continuing row over private education.
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The tiny cottages had been built in long rows.
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The World Trade Organization will give the two countries 60 days to end their row .
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There were always rows when my dad got home.
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They put a row of chairs out for the visitors.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Row upon row of eggs confront me.
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Besides a standard keyboard, the memex would have rows of buttons and levers.
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If an estate car tempts you, it could pay to choose one with the option of an extra row of seats.
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It stood under some beech trees, between a row of cottages and a battered church.
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Just down the row of lockers from Cianfrocco are two young players who just bought their first homes, neither in California.
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She crossed to the wardrobe and opened it and saw her abandoned clothes hanging in a neat row .
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With one final effort the first row of marchers dug in their heels and came to a halt.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
furious
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After it was extinguished by ground staff, a furious row then ensued between the referee and our lads.
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The overweight 45year-old was believed to have suffocated her 65-year-old victim during a furious row .
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It followed a furious row on Saturday morning.
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Again there was a furious row .
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These telephone calls provoke long and furious rows between Mr Smith and his second wife.
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A furious row broke out last night over who should film the happy couple outside tiny Crathie church.
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When the Socialist government came to power there was a furious public row .
long
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I looked across the long row of pens.
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Tracer rounds corkscrewed through the glare, and people were dying in long neat rows .
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Ben climbed them slowly, tired from the long row back.
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It was dead low tide and rather a long row .
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On the outskirts of Tabor there were long rows of multi-storey apartment blocks of an extraordinary ugliness; many flats looked empty.
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On the long row back he had traced the logic of the thing time and again.
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These telephone calls provoke long and furious rows between Mr Smith and his second wife.
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Facing the front of the Post Office was a long row of seal-makers and scribes squatting in the dust with their customers.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Row upon row of eggs confront me.
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Besides a standard keyboard, the memex would have rows of buttons and levers.
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If an estate car tempts you, it could pay to choose one with the option of an extra row of seats.
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She crossed to the wardrobe and opened it and saw her abandoned clothes hanging in a neat row .
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With one final effort the first row of marchers dug in their heels and came to a halt.
III. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
across
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Billy rowed across and followed her at a discreet distance.
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Caretaker reflected: if he got the Amy Roy's tender out and rowed across , it would take about fifteen minutes.
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Her brother rowed across and to his dismay saw that the man was wearing convict's clothes.
away
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As the two rowed away , the mob reached the shore.
back
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When she returned to her boat, she did not notice this, and proceeded to row back to her lock-house.
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Then she rowed back to the middle of the river, and, thinking she was alone, jumped out to swim.
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He could have drowned rowing back from the yacht club.
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They would row about fifty yards in one direction, then turn round and row back , seemingly over the same ground.
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The ferryman asked the boy why he had to row back and forth and could never be set free.
out
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He rows out alone into the estuary, and waits there - waits for what?
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Then there was the time Hammond bravely rowed out to an island on the golf course at the Tucson Country Club.
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So once again he rowed out to sea, and for three days neither ate nor fished.
over
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He rows over , restrains her, and brings her into his boat.
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The sailors saw him at once, and rowed over to rescue him.
up
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Again Jesse Johnson and the new preacher Sinnett rowed up to the raft to meet Clayt.
■ NOUN
boat
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Some ironically offered to get into the boats and row them to camp through the mud....
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The boat is rowed slowly round the lough whilst an angler sitting in the stern casts out at right angles.
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The lord stepped out of the boat that had rowed him ashore and slowly mounted the steps of the pier.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a flaming row/temper
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And this caused a flaming row at the school debating society.
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I was a girl in a flaming temper.
almighty din/crash/row etc
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And certainly there would be the most almighty row if Clarke got the push.
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Before he got half way, they dropped with an almighty crash on to the stone floor.
be on skid row
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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In the afternoon, we rowed out to the island.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As the two rowed away, the mob reached the shore.
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I lost the race and finished up trying to row half a dinghy with the crew cheering in the distance.
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In contrast, governments that put steering and rowing within the same organization limit themselves to relatively narrow strategies.
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Some ironically offered to get into the boats and row them to camp through the mud....
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They did not intend rowing so far.
IV. verb
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As the two rowed away, the mob reached the shore.
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As we've seen, row one is background, rows two and three are pattern, and row four is background.
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She got in the car to talk to him but, as the couple rowed, shot himself.