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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rower/#m1)

2) A rower is also a rowing machine in a gym. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rower/#m2)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rower/#x1)
- There are 8 boats with 2 rowers in each. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rower/#x2)
- A rower rows 3 km in 20 minutes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rower/#x3)
- How many rowers are in the race? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rower/#x4)
- The rowers pulled their oars together. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rower/#x5)
- Rowers sit facing the back of the boat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rower/#x6)
- An eight has 8 rowers and a cox who steers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rower/#x7)
- She trains on the rower at the gym. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rower/#x8)
- One of the rowers was a beautiful young woman, named Atalanta, who had been nursed among the mountains by a bear. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rower/#x9)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/EZK.712/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «rower» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rower/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.