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Definition: TROW |
TROWIntransitive & transitive verb1. To believe; to trust; to think or suppose. Noun1. A boat with an open well amidships. It is used in spearing fish. |
Date "TROW" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1200. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Mining | A wooden channel for air or water. (references) |
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Trowes are also characters in Bungie's Myth computer game series.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Trow."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Belief | Think, hold; take, take it; opine, be of opinion, conceive, trow, ween, fancy, apprehend; have it, hold a belief, possess, entertain a belief, adopt a belief, imbibe a belief, embrace a belief, get hold of a belief, hazard, foster, nurture a belief, cherish a belief, have an opinion, hold an opinion, possess, entertain an opinion, adopt an opinion, imbibe an opinion, embrace an opinion, get hold of an opinion, hazard an opinion, foster an opinion, nurture an opinion, cherish an opinion; n. |
Knowledge | Verb: know, ken, scan, wot; wot aware, be aware; Adjective:- of; ween, weet, trow, have, possess. |
Thought | Verb: think, reflect, cogitate, excogitate, consider, deliberate; bestow thought upon, bestow consideration upon; speculate, contemplate, meditate, ponder, muse, dream, ruminate; brood over, con over; animadvert, study; bend -, apply mind; (attend); digest, discuss, hammer at, weigh, perpend; realize, appreciate; fancy; (imagine); trow. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: TROW |
| Etymologies containing "TROW": Consternation. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "TROW" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Manx (instance, look out, observation). |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | ![]() | 'Log cabin anecdotes.' Illustrated incidents in the life of Gen. William Henry Harrison / J.F. Trow, printer. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| "TROW" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 56.00% of the time. "TROW" is used about 25 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 56% | 14 | 93,893 |
| Noun (singular) | 32% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 12% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 25 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
trow | 30 |
trow price | 13 |
holden trow | 8 |
back jersey trow | 7 |
trow van | 5 |
van trow toyota | 5 |
back trow | 4 |
consulting trow | 4 |
deep i trow | 3 |
engineering trow | 3 |
associate trow | 2 |
mitsubishi trow van | 2 |
consulting engineer trow | 2 |
oldsmobile trow van | 2 |
production rick trow | 2 |
ball photo trow | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "TROW"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | Mendoj (believe, conceive, consider, contemplate, deem, deliberate, dream up, elaborate, expect, fancy, feel, figure, guess, hold, imagine, judge, mean, opine, ponder, rate, reason, reckon for, reflect, regard, repute, say, study, suppose, take, think, try, understand, ween), Besoj (accredit, believe, calculate, commit, confide, consign, credit, entrust, guess, hold, intrust, rely, trust, understand, ween). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | Предполагам, Мисля, 'ярвам. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | riisua naamio (trow off the mask, unmask). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | Φρονώ, ιστεύω. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | Facsatorna (stave pipe). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | owtray pensar (believe, brain, debate, guess, imagine, reason, reflect on, see, think, think about, thinking), crer (accredit, believe, confide, deem, entrust, fancy, have confidence in, judge, suppose, trust, ween), acreditar (accredit, believe, come to believe, consider, credit, deem, guarantee, take in, think). (various references) Полагать, "умать. (various references) verovati (believe, trust), pretpostaviti (assume, connote, hypothesize, presuppose, suppose, surmise, suspect). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Date | Source | Luke Chapter 17, Verse 9 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Mh carin ecei tw doulw ekeinw oti epoihsen ta diatacqenta autw ou dokw |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Numquid gratiam habet servo illi quia fecit quae sibi imperaverat non puto |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | Wenst þu hæfo se þeowa ænigne þanc: forþam ðe he dyde þæt him beboden wæs. ne wene ic; |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Whether he hath grace to that seruaunt, for he dide that that he comaundide hym? |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | Doeth he thanke that servaunt because he dyd that which was commaunded vnto him? I trowe not. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Doth he thank that servant because he did the things that were commanded him? I trow not. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Doth he thank that servant, because he did the things that were commanded him? I suppose not. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | Does he give praise to the servant because he did what was ordered? |
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| Language | Luke Chapter 17, Verse 9 |
| Cebuano | Pasalamatan ba niya ang iyang ulipon tungod kay kini nagbuhat sa gisugo kaniya? |
| Chinese | 僕 人 照 所 吩 ' 的 去 作 、 主 人 還 謝 謝 他 麼 。 |
| Croatian | Zar duguje zahvalnost sluzi jer je izvršio što mu je nareðeno? |
| Danish | Mon han takker Tjeneren, fordi han gjorde det, som var befalet? Jeg mener det ikke. |
| Dutch | Dankt hij ook denzelven dienstknecht omdat hij gedaan heeft, hetgeen hem bevolen was? Ik meen, neen. |
| Finnish | Ei kaiketi hän kiitä palvelijaa siitä, että tämä teki, mitä oli käsketty? |
| French | Doit-il de la reconnaissance ce serviteur parce qu`il a fait ce qui lui était ordonné? |
| German | Dankt er auch dem Knechte, daß er getan hat, was ihm befohlen war? Ich meine es nicht. |
| Haitian Creole | Li pa gen mèsi pou l' di domestik la paske domestik la fè sa l' te mande l' fè a, pa vre. |
| Hungarian | Avagy megköszöni-é annak a szolgának, hogy azt mívelte, a mit néki parancsolt? Nem gondolom. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Pelayan itu tidak perlu dipuji karena sudah mematuhi perintah tuannya, bukan? |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Adakah diucapkannya syukur kepada hamba itu sebab diperbuatnya seperti yang disuruhnya itu? |
| Italian | Si riterr obbligato verso il suo servo, perché ha eseguito gli ordini ricevuti? |
| Maori | E whakawhetai oti ia ki taua pononga, mona i mea i nga mea i whakahaua ai ia? |
| Norwegian | Takker han vel sin tjener fordi han gjorde det som var ham pålagt? Jeg tror det ikke. |
| Portuguese | Porventura agradecerá ao servo, porque este fez o que lhe foi mandado? |
| Rumanian | Va rqmknea el kndatorat fayq de robul acela, pentrucq robul a fqcut ce -i fusese poruncit? Nu cred. |
| Russian | уФБОЕФ МЙ ПО 'МБЗП"БТЙФШ ТБ'Б УЕЗП ЪБ ФП, ЮФП ПО ЙУ ПМОЙМ ТЙЛБЪБОЙЕ? оЕ "ХНБА. |
| Shuar | Nii Túratin ana nunak Túratsuk. Tuma asamtai yuminsashtatme. |
| Spanish | ¿Da gracias al siervo porque hizo lo que le había sido mandado? |
| Swahili | Je utamshukuru huyo mtumishi kwa sababu ametimiza aliyoamriwa? |
| Swedish | Icke tackar han väl tjänaren för att denne gjorde det som blev honom befallt? |
| Uma | Uma-hawo mingki' ta'uli' tarima kasi hi batua-ta, apa' muntu' mpotuku' hawa' -i-wadi. |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "TROW": trowed, trowel, troweled, troweler, trowelers, troweling, trowelled, trowelling, trowels, trowing, trows, trowsers, trowth, trowths. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "TROW": bestrow, outrow, strow. (additional references) | |
Words containing "TROW": bestrowed, bestrowing, bestrown, bestrows, electroweak, electrowinning, electrowinnings, outrowed, outrowing, outrows, strowed, strowing, strown, strows. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "TROW" (pronounced trō") |
| 3 | t r ō" | strow. |
| 2 | -r ō" | bro, crow, escrow, fro, grow, outgrow, pro, Rho, Roe, row, tarot, throw. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: wort. | |
| Words within the letters "o-r-t-w" | |
-1 letter: ort, rot, row, tor, tow, two, wot. | |
-2 letters: or, ow, to, wo. | |
| Words containing the letters "o-r-t-w" | |
+1 letter: rowth, strow, throw, tower, trows, whort, worst, worth, worts, wrote, wroth. | |
+2 letters: frowst, growth, outrow, outwar, powter, rowths, strown, strows, thrown, throws, toward, towers, towery, trowed, trowel, trowth, twofer, whorts, worrit, worset, worsts, worths, worthy. | |
+3 letters: artwork, awlwort, bestrow, cowrite, cowrote, crownet, cutwork, cutworm, fanwort, felwort, figwort, forwent, frowsts, frowsty, growths, growthy, kotower, madwort, mugwort, network, outcrow, outdraw, outdrew, outgrew, outgrow, outrows, outward, outwars, outwear, outwore, outwork, outworn, outwrit, overwet, postwar, powters, prowest, ragwort, rewrote, ribwort, rowboat, strowed, swotter, thrower, tinwork, topwork, towards, towered, towrope, trowels, trowing, trowths, twofers, upthrow, warthog, whereto, whortle, workout, worrits, worsets, worsted, worthed, wrought. | |
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