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 Translation for 'to row' from English to French
VERB   to row | rowed | rowed
rowing | rows
SYNO course | dustup | quarrel | ...
naut.sport
ramer
to row
2
naut.sport
faire de l'aviron
to row
naut.sport
pratiquer l'aviron
to row
Nouns
rangée {f} [maisons, sièges, livres]row [line]
3
empoignade {f} [fam.]row
algarade {f}row [argument]
engueulade {f} [fam.] [dispute]row [dispute]
fracas {m}row [esp. Br.] [coll.] [noise, quarrel]
rang {m} [gens, plantes, points]row [line]
travée {f}row [of seats etc.]
enfilade {f}row [succession]
2 Words
dr.
couloir {m} de la mort
death row
querelle {f} de famillefamily row
sport
ligne {f} d'attaque [rugby]
front row [rugby]
sport
première {f} ligne [rugby]
front row [rugby]
naut.
chaloupe {f} [à rames]
row boat [Am.]
math.
vecteur {m} ligne
row vector
gradin {m}seat row
sociol.urban
bas-fonds {m.pl} [quartier mal famé]
skid row [Am.] [coll.] {sg}
3 Words
de suite {adv}in a row
à l'enfilade {adv}in a row [one after the other]
4 Words
au premier rang {adv}in the first row
sociol.urban
vivre dans les bas-fonds
to be on skid row [Am.] [coll.]
s'engueuler avec qn. [fam.] [se disputer]to have a row with sb.
traverser le lac a la rameto row across the lake
chercher noise à qn. [loc.]to start a row with sb.
chercher des noises à qn. [loc.]to start a row with sb.
5+ Words
trois fois de suite {adv}three times in a row
proférer des injuresto let out a row of expletives
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Usage Examples English
  • Verdant Green, eponymous hero of the novel by Cuthbert Bede, learns to row and 'feathers his oars with skill and dexterity' (Part II Chapter VI), borrowing a line from Dibdin's song "The Jolly Young Waterman."
  • Philip spent the winter of 217–216 BC building a fleet of 100 warships and training men to row them and, according to Polybius, it was a practice that "hardly any Macedonian king had ever done before".
  • Unlike the popular concept of galley slaves, ancient navies generally preferred to rely on free men to row their galleys.
  • The first part (sometimes called forward elimination) reduces a given system to row echelon form, from which one can tell whether there are no solutions, a unique solution, or infinitely many solutions.
  • Due to the Great Flood of 1862, he had to row to his inauguration in a rowboat.

  • Unstructured data may also refer to irregularly or randomly repeated column patterns that vary from row to row but no specific consensus seems to have been reached.
  • The monks used to charge a small fare to row passengers across the river.
  • In "call change ringing" each different sequence of the bells, known as a "row", is specifically called out by one ringer, the "conductor", who instructs the other ringers how to change their bells' places from row to row.
  • Application of glyphosate-based herbicides to row crops resulted in problems with crop damage and kept them from being widely used for this purpose.
  • In 2009, several Waterford rowers were selected to row for Ireland.

  • The narrow "tombstone" transom assured that the boat rode well against a following sea or breaking surf, and also made the boat easy to row.
  • On either side of the boat are rowers, who are directed how to row through the drumbeat of a leader.
  • The first person to row solo across the sea was Colin Quincey in 1977.
  • Later however they find themselves passing Etna, and have to row for their lives to escape Charybdis.
  • He vaguely planned to row to Holland but came unstuck after falling off the bike in front of a policeman.

  • The crew were ordered to row for shore, however Captain Dove was taken prisoner on board the "Graf Spee" where he was to be held captive.
  • In "method" or "scientific ringing" each ringer has memorized a pattern describing his or her bell's course from row to row; taken together, these patterns (along with only occasional "calls" made by a conductor) form an algorithm which cycles through the various available permutations dictated by the number of bells available.
  • Inca walls have many stabilizing features: doors and windows are trapezoidal, narrowing from bottom to top; corners usually are rounded; inside corners often incline slightly into the rooms, and outside corners were often tied together by "L"-shaped blocks; walls are offset slightly from row to row rather than rising straight from bottom to top.
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