Word Confusion: Rose versus Rows

Plural for the noun: roses
Gerund: rising

Third person present verb: rises
Past tense: rose
Past participle: risen
Present participle: rising

Plural for the noun: rows
Gerund: rowing

Third person present verb: rows
Past tense or past participle: rowed
Present participle: rowing

For, containing, or growing roses

Scented like a rose

Noun:
A prickly bush or shrub that typically bears red, pink, yellow, or white fragrant flowers, native to north temperate regions ²

Genus Rosa, family Rosaceae

• The flower of a rose bush
• Used in names of other plants whose flowers resemble roses
• An ornament shaped like or suggesting this flower
• Regarded as an emblem of beauty, delicacy, or purity
• [roses] Used to express favorable circumstances or ease of success

[Heraldry] A stylized representation of the flower in heraldry or decoration, typically with five petals (especially as a national emblem of England)

• Short for rose window

A warm pink or light crimson color

• [Usually roses] Used in reference to a rosy complexion, especially that of a young woman

A perforated cap attached to a shower, the spout of a watering can, or the end of a hose to produce a spray

Short for compass rose

An upward movement ³

• An instance of becoming higher
• An act of a fish moving to the surface to take a fly or bait
• An instance of social, commercial, or political advancement
• An upward slope or hill
• The vertical height of a step, arch, or incline
• Another term for riser, as in a vertical section between the treads of a staircase

An increase in amount, extent, size, or number

• [British] An increase in salary or wages

An increase in sound or pitch

[In singular noun] A source or origin

Verb, intransitive:
Move from a lower position to a higher one ³

• Come or go up
• [Of the sun, moon, or another celestial body] Appear above the horizon
• [Of a fish) come to the surface of water
• Reach a higher position in society or one’s profession
• [rise above] Succeed in not being limited or constrained by (a restrictive environment or situation)
• [rise above] Be superior to

Get up from lying, sitting, or kneeling

• Get out of bed, especially in the morning
• [Chiefly British; of a meeting or a session of a court] Adjourn
• Be restored to life

Cease to be submissive, obedient, or peaceful

• [rise to] Find the strength or ability to respond adequately to a challenging situation
• [rise to; of a person] React with annoyance or argument to provocation

[Of a river] Have its source

• [Of a wind] Start to blow or to blow more strongly

[Of land or a feature following the contours of the land] Incline upward

• Become higher
• [Of a building, mountain, or other high object or structure] Be much taller than the surrounding landscape
• [Of someone’s hair] Stand on end
• [Of a building] Undergo construction from the foundations
• [Of dough] Swell by the action of yeast
• [Of a bump, blister, or weal] Appear as a swelling on the skin
• [Of a person’s stomach] Become nauseated

Increase in number, size, amount, or quality

• [Of the sea, a river, or other body of water] Increase in height to a particular level, typically through tidal action or flooding
• [Of a sound] Become louder
• [Of a barometer or other measuring instrument] Give a higher reading
• [Of a voice] Become higher in pitch
• [Of an emotion] Develop and become more intense
• [Of a person’s mood] Become more cheerful
• [Of the color in a person’s face] Become deeper, especially as a result of embarrassment

[rising] Approaching a specified age

Verb, transitive:
[Literary] Make rosy ²

To make rose-colored

To flush (the face, cheeks, etc.)

• A line of seats in a theater
• A street with a continuous line of houses along one or both of its sides, especially when specifying houses of a particular type or function
• A horizontal line of entries in a table
• A complete line of stitches in knitting or crochet

[Music] Tone row

[Checkers] One of the horizontal lines of squares on a checkerboard

[Names] Sometimes used in street names

• Rank

[Singular] An act, instance, or period of rowing ²

An excursion in a rowboat

A noisy acrimonious quarrel ³

• A serious dispute
• A loud noise or uproar

Verb, intransitive:
[With adverbial of direction] Travel by propelling a boat with oars
²

• [Convey a passenger] In a boat by propelling it with oars
• Engage in the sport of rowing, especially competitively

[British; informal] Have a quarrel ³

Verb, transitive:
[Often followed by up] To put in a row ¹

Propel (a boat) with oars ²

To take them in a boat that is rowed

To convey or propel something in a manner suggestive of rowing

To require, use, or be equipped with

To use (oarsmen) for rowing

To perform or participate in by rowing

To row against in a race

[Said of a boat] To employ (a specified number of oars)

That’s a lovely rose perfume.

She’s wearing a rose suit.

I’ve always adored the fragrance of a rose garden.

Noun:
Numerous rose hybrids and cultivars have been developed and are widely grown as ornamentals.

The large rose family includes most temperate fruits (apple, plum, peach, cherry, blackberry, strawberry) as well as the hawthorns, rowans, potentillas, and avens.

He sent her a dozen red roses.

I loved the idea of a rose of Sharon. Until I saw one.

She’s a rose between two thorns.

Heads up. All is not roses in the firm today.

On his marriage, Henry VII adopted the Tudor rose badge which joined the White Rose of York and the Red Rose of Lancaster.

There are several different circular window styles, including the oculus, the rose, and the wheel window.

He’s captured the rose and gold of dawn so well in his painting.

The fresh air will soon put the roses back in her cheeks.

Use some vinegar to clear out the scale in the shower rose.

An eight-point compass rose indicates north, south, east, west and northeast, southeast, southwest, and northwest at 45-degree angles.

Don’t worry. Everything is coming up roses and there is nothing to worry about.

Verb, intransitive:
The tiny aircraft rose from the ground.

Ya gotta get up, George. The sun rose an hour ago.

A salmon rose and was hooked and landed.

The officer was a man of great courage who rose from the ranks.

She struggled hard and rose above her humble background.

He rose above prejudice.

She pushed back her chair and rose.

I rose and got dressed.

The court rose for lunch.

Michael, your sister rose from the dead!

He rose from the dead on the third day.

Militant factions rose up against the government.

Many participants in the race had never sailed before, but they rose to the challenge.

He rose to my teasing.

During a flood, the water level in a river first rose faster and faster, then rose more (Hughes-Hallett).

The wind sure rose last night. It knocked all the chairs into the pool.

The moorlands rose and fell in gentle folds.

The cliff rose more than a hundred feet above us.

The hairs rose on the back of my neck. I turned . . .

Rows of two-story houses slowly rose over the summer.

The dough rose beautifully overnight.

Blisters rose on his burned hand.

Fabio’s stomach rose at the foul bedding.

Land prices rose in the next decade.

The river level rose so high the work had to be abandoned.

Crimes committed rose 200%.

Her voice rose above the clamor.

The barometer rose this morning.

My voice rose an octave or two as I screamed.

A tide of resentment rose in him.

Her spirits rose as they left the ugly city behind.

He was teasing her, and her color rose.

I swear, that woman may be twenty-four but it’s more like she rose sixty years old.

Verb, transitive:
A warm flush now rosed her hitherto blue cheeks.

“She just stands there watching me squirm, with this almost smile on her lips, her arms folded across her chest, her cheeks all rosed from the cold, her eyes shooting sparks straight into mine, looking so outrageously beautiful that I just about keel over” (Sones).

The number of soldiers who died in the military intervention aimed at restoring peace and democracy in Lesotho rosed to 66.

“Can you blame her then, being a maid yet rosed over with the virgin crimson of modesty, if she deny the appearance of a naked blind boy in her naked seeing self?” (Shakespeare, act 5, scene 2).

Her villa stood in a row of similar ones.

They sat in the front row.

Yeah, this street is known as “fraternity row”.

They said he’s been on death row for thirty years.

But if you look at this row, you’ll see that the inventory numbers are off.

After you knit two rows, purl one, then repeat.

The chairs were set in doubled rows.

Ol’ Mac lives over on Fenton Row, down by the cedars.

It was a long row to the far bank.

We went for a row down the river.

They had a row, and she stormed out of the house.

The director is at the center of a row over policy decisions.

If he’s at home, he must have heard that row.

Verb, intransitive:
We rowed down the river all day.

They rowed about who would receive the money from the sale.

He rowed as quickly as he could to the shore.

Verb, transitive:
Out in the bay, a small figure was rowing a rubber dinghy.

George rowed her swiftly across the lake.

The captain’s barge rowed twenty oars.

Let’s turn in. We have to row a race in the morning.

Oxford rows Cambridge.

The boatman refused to row him back.

1. Before 900, Middle English, from the Old English rōse, from the Latin rosa; akin to the Greek rhódon.
2. Old English rōse is of Germanic origin, from the Latin rosa and reinforced in Middle English by the Old French rose.
3. The verb, before 1000, in Middle English was risen, from the Old English rīsan, cognate with the Dutch rijzen, the Old High German rīsan, and the Gothic reisan. Akin to raise and the space or position behind something.

1. Old English rāw is of Germanic origin and related to the Dutch rij and the German Reihe.
2. Old English rōwan is of Germanic origin and related to rudder, which is from an Indo-European root shared by Latin remus meaning oar, or the Greek eretmon meaning oar.
3. Mid-18th century and of unknown origin.