Row vs. Street

Row vs. Street — Is There a Difference?
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Difference Between Row and Street

Rownoun

A line of objects, often regularly spaced, such as seats in a theatre, vegetable plants in a garden etc.

Streetnoun

A paved part of road, usually in a village or a town.

Walk down the street.

Rownoun

A line of entries in a table, etc., going from left to right, as opposed to a column going from top to bottom.

Streetnoun

A road as above but including the sidewalks (pavements) and buildings.

I live on the street down from Joyce Avenue.

Rownoun

An act or instance of rowing.

I went for an early-morning row.

Streetnoun

The people who live in such a road, as a neighborhood.

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Rownoun

(weightlifting) An exercise performed with a pulling motion of the arms towards the back.

Streetnoun

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.

Rownoun

A noisy argument.

Streetnoun

(slang) Street talk or slang.

Rownoun

A continual loud noise.

Who's making that row?

Streetnoun

(figuratively) A great distance.

He's streets ahead of his sister in all the subjects in school.
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Rowverb

To propel (a boat or other craft) over water using oars.

Streetnoun

(poker slang) Each of the three opportunities that players have to bet, after the flop, turn and river.

Rowverb

(transitive) To transport in a boat propelled with oars.

to row the captain ashore in his barge

Streetnoun

Illicit, contraband, especially of a drug

I got some pot cheap on the street.

Rowverb

(intransitive) To be moved by oars.

The boat rows easily.

Streetnoun

(attributive) Living in the streets.

Street cat.Street urchin.

Rowverb

(intransitive) to argue noisily

Streetnoun

(urban toponymy) By restriction, the streets that run perpendicular to avenues.

Rownoun

an arrangement of objects or people side by side in a line;

a row of chairs

Streetadjective

(slang) Having street cred; conforming to modern urban trends.

Rownoun

an angry dispute;

they had a quarrelthey had words

Streetverb

To build or equip with streets.

Rownoun

a long continuous strip (usually running horizontally);

a mackerel sky filled with rows of cloudsrows of barbed wire protected the trenches

Streetverb

To eject; to throw onto the streets.

Rownoun

(construction) a layer of masonry;

a course of bricks

Streetverb

To heavily defeat.

Rownoun

a linear array of numbers side by side

Streetverb

To go on sale.

Rownoun

a continuous chronological succession without an interruption;

they won the championship three years in a row

Streetverb

To proselytize in public.

Rownoun

the act of rowing as a sport

Streetnoun

a thoroughfare (usually including sidewalks) that is lined with buildings;

they walked the streets of the small townhe lives on Nassau Street

Rowverb

propel with oars;

row the boat across the lake

Streetnoun

the part of a thoroughfare between the sidewalks; the part of the thoroughfare on which vehicles travel;

be careful crossing the street

Streetnoun

the streets of a city viewed as a depressed environment in which there is poverty and crime and prostitution and dereliction;

she tried to keep her children off the street

Streetnoun

a situation offering opportunities;

he worked both sides of the streetcooperation is a two-way street

Streetnoun

people living or working on the same street;

the whole street protested the absence of street lights