Raw vs. Row — What's the Difference?

Uncooked

A series of objects placed next to each other, usually in a straight line.

Being in a natural condition; not processed or refined

A succession without a break or gap in time

Not finished, covered, or coated

A line of adjacent seats, as in a theater, auditorium, or classroom.

Not having been subjected to adjustment, treatment, or analysis

A continuous line of buildings along a street.

Undeveloped or unused

The act or an instance of rowing.

Recently finished; fresh

A shift at the oars of a boat.

Inexperienced or untrained

A trip or an excursion in a rowboat.

Having subcutaneous tissue exposed

A noisy or quarrel or disturbance.

Inflamed; sore

A loud noise.

Unpleasantly damp and chilly

To place in a row.

Powerfully impressive; stark

To use an oar or pair of oars in propelling a boat, typically by facing the stern and pulling the oar handle toward oneself, using an oarlock as a fulcrum to push the blade backward through the water repeatedly.

Direct in description and explicit in realistic detail

To propel (a boat) with oars.

Crude, vulgar, or coarse

To carry in or on a boat propelled by oars.

Nude; naked

To use (a specified number of oars or people deploying them).

Engaged in without the protection of a condom.

To propel or convey in a manner resembling rowing of a boat.

Done in a rough or unrestrained manner. Used of sex.

To pull (an oar) as part of a racing crew.

(Slang) Without a condom; unprotected.

To race against by rowing.

(cooking) of food Not cooked.

To take part in a noisy quarrel or disturbance.

Not treated or processed; in a natural state, unrefined, unprocessed.

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

Having had the skin removed or abraded; chafed, tender; exposed, lacerated.

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

New or inexperienced.

An act or instance of rowing.

Crude in quality; rough, uneven, unsophisticated.

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

Uncorrected, without analysis.

A noisy argument.

Unpleasantly cold or damp.

A continual loud noise.

Unmasked, undisguised, strongly expressed.

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

Candid in a representation of unpleasant facts, conditions, etc.

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

Unrefined, crude, or insensitive, especially with reference to sexual matters.

(intransitive) To be moved by oars.

(obsolete) Not covered; bare; bald.

(intransitive) To argue noisily.

(slang) Without a condom.

Rough; stern; angry.

An unprocessed sugar; a batch of such.

A noisy, turbulent quarrel or disturbance; a brawl.

A galled place; an inveterate sore.

A series of persons or things arranged in a continued line; a line; a rank; a file; as, a row of trees; a row of houses or columns.

A point about which a person is particularly sensitive.

The act of rowing; excursion in a rowboat.

A recording or rip of a show that has not been fansubbed.

To propel with oars, as a boat or vessel, along the surface of water; as, to row a boat.

A scan that has not been cleaned purged of blemishes arising from the scanning process and has not been scanlated.

To transport in a boat propelled with oars; as, to row the captain ashore in his barge.

(slang) To anally or vaginally penetrate without a condom.

To use the oar; as, to row well.

Not altered from its natural state; not prepared by the action of heat; as, raw sienna;

To be moved by oars; as, the boat rows easily.

Hence: Unprepared for use or enjoyment; immature; unripe; unseasoned; inexperienced; unpracticed; untried; as, raw soldiers; a raw recruit.

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

Not worked in due form; in the natural state; untouched by art; unwrought.

An angry dispute;

Not covered; bare.

A long continuous strip (usually running horizontally);

Disagreeably damp or cold; chilly; bleak; as, a raw wind.

(construction) a layer of masonry;

A raw, sore, or galled place; a sensitive spot; as, to touch one on the raw.

A linear array of numbers side by side

Informal terms for nakedness;

A continuous chronological succession without an interruption;

(used especially of commodities) in the natural unprocessed condition;

The act of rowing as a sport

Having the surface exposed and painful;

Propel with oars;

Not treated with heat to prepare it for eating

Not processed or refined;

Devoid of elaboration or diminution or concealment; bare and pure;

Brutally unfair or harsh;

Not processed or subjected to analysis;

Untempered and unrefined;

Unpleasantly cold and damp;

Inflamed and painful;

Used of wood and furniture;

Lacking training or experience;

(used informally) completely unclothed