rower

«rower» in Mova's school dictionary: a person who moves a boat through the water with oars — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (rower, rowers)

meaning for a pupil

1) A rower is a person who moves a boat through the water with oars. tree →

2) A rower is also a rowing machine in a gym. tree →

sense in the lessons

a person counted in boats, or one who rows a distance at a speed; in sport: rowers race in teams of 1, 2, 4 or 8, facing backwards; in safety: rowers wear life jackets; in stories: a rower takes people across a river

examples

• Each boat holds 4 rowers. tree →
• There are 8 boats with 2 rowers in each. tree →
• A rower rows 3 km in 20 minutes. tree →
• How many rowers are in the race? tree →
• The rowers pulled their oars together. tree →
• Rowers sit facing the back of the boat. tree →
• An eight has 8 rowers and a cox who steers. tree →
• She trains on the rower at the gym. tree →
• One of the rowers was a beautiful young woman, named Atalanta, who had been nursed among the mountains by a bear. tree →

note

A counted person or a mover with speed; «rowers per boat» is a rate, so total = boats × rowers per boat. Trap: going with a river current goes faster than against it. Pronounced to rhyme with «grower» (from «row» a boat).

In the corpora

• Thy rowers have brought thee into great waters; the east wind hath broken thee in the heart of the seas.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «rower» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.