Rod

Noun

 * 1) A straight, round stick, shaft, bar, cane, or staff.
 * The circus strong man proved his strength by bending an iron rod, and then straightening it.
 * 1)  A long slender usually tapering pole used for angling; fishing rod.
 * When I hooked a snake and not a fish, I got so scared I dropped my rod in the water.
 * 1) A stick, pole, or bundle of switches or twigs (such as a birch), used for personal defense or to administer corporal punishment by whipping.
 * 2) An implement resembling and/or supplanting a rod (particularly a cane) that is used for corporal punishment, and metonymically called the rod, regardless of its actual shape and composition.
 * The judge imposed on the thief a sentence of fifteen strokes with the rod.
 * 1) A stick used to measure distance, by using its established length or task-specific temporary marks along its length, or by dint of specific graduated marks.
 * I notched a rod and used it to measure the length of rope to cut.
 * 1)  A unit of length. Equal to a pole, a perch, ¼ chain, 5½ yards, 16½ feet, or exactly 5.0292 meters.
 * 2) * 1865 Henry David Thoreau, Cape Cod
 * In one of the villages I saw the next summer a cow tethered by a rope six rods long [...]
 * 1) * 1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, The House Behind the Cedars, Chapter I,
 * A few rods farther led him past the old black Presbyterian church, with its square tower, embowered in a stately grove; past the Catholic church, with its many crosses, and a painted wooden figure of St. James in a recess beneath the gable; and past the old Jefferson House, once the leading hotel of the town, in front of which political meetings had been held, and political speeches made, and political hard cider drunk, in the days of "Tippecanoe and Tyler too."
 * 1) An implement held vertically and viewed through an optical surveying instrument such as a transit, used to measure distance in land surveying and construction layout; an engineer's rod, surveyor's rod, leveling rod, ranging rod. The modern 🇺🇸 engineer's or surveyor's rod commonly is eight or ten feet long and often designed to extend higher. In former times a surveyor's rod often was a single wooden pole or composed of multiple sectioned and socketed pieces, and besides serving as a sighting target was used to measure distance on the ground horizontally, hence for convenience was of one rod or pole in length, that is, 5½ yards.
 * 2)  A unit of area equal to a square rod, 30¼ square yards or 1/160 acre.
 * The house had a small yard of about six rods in size.
 * 1) A straight bar that unites moving parts of a machine, for holding parts together as a connecting rod or for transferring power as a drive-shaft.
 * The engine threw a rod, and then went to pieces before our eyes, springs and coils shooting in all directions.
 * 1)  Short for rod cell, a rod-shaped cell in the eye that is sensitive to light.
 * The rods are more sensitive than the cones, but do not discern color.
 * 1)  Any of a number of long, slender microorganisms.
 * He applied a gram positive stain, looking for rods indicative of Listeria.
 * 1)  A stirring rod: a glass rod, typically about 6 inches to 1 foot long and 1/8 to 1/4 inch in diameter that can be used to stir liquids in flasks or beakers.
 * 2)  A pistol; a gun.
 * 3)  A penis; the male rod.
 * 4)  A hot rod, an automobile or other passenger motor vehicle modified to run faster and often with exterior cosmetic alterations, especially one based originally on a pre-1940s model or (currently) denoting any older vehicle thus modified.

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:stick
 * See also Thesaurus:penis

Derived terms

 * divining rod
 * rod for one's back


 * rodman
 * rod-shaped


 * spare the rod, spoil the child

Adjectives for Rod
chastening; pastoral; bayonet; mystic; avenging; radiant; metallic; sharpest; transparent; sin-avenging; uplifted; gubernatorial; merciless.

Thesaurus
Maypole, atomic pile, automatic, bar, baton, billet, birch, blowgun, blowpipe, breeder reactor, bricks, caduceus, cane, cap of dignity, cap of maintenance, castigation, chain of office, chain reactor, chain-reacting pile, chastisement, club, coronet, correction, crook, crosier, cross-staff, crown, diadem, discipline, ermine, fasces, fast pile, ferule, firearm, flagstaff, flamethrower, furnace, gat, gavel, great seal, gun, handgun, heater, heterogeneous reactor, homogeneous reactor, ingot, intermediate pile, lattice, mace, mantle, musket, neutron factory, nuclear furnace, orb, paddle, pandybat, peashooter, piece, pile, pistol, plutonium reactor, pole, portfolio, power reactor, power-breeder reactor, privy seal, province, punition, purple, purple pall, radioactive waste, rattan, reactor, reactor pile, regalia, repeater, revolver, rifle, robe of state, rod of empire, rod of office, rods, royal crown, ruler, sawed-off shotgun, scape, scepter, seal, shaft, shooting iron, shotgun, signet, six-gun, six-shooter, slab, slow pile, staff, stalk, stellarator, stem, stick, strip, switch, tiara, tongue, totem pole, triple plume, truncheon, uraeus, uranium reactor, wand, wand of office

Etymology
*undefined: or *undefined: (attested in dative plural roddum:), of uncertain origin.

Translations

 * Armenian:
 * Basque:
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Ewe: ati
 * Finnish:
 * French: tige
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Greek: ραβδί (ravdí)
 * Hebrew: ,
 * Hebrew: ,


 * Japanese:
 * Latin:
 * Macedonian:, прат, ,
 * Polish: pręt
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:, , ,
 * Russian:, ,
 * Serbian: ,
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish: spö, ,
 * Turkish:
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 * Bulgarian: въдица
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: hengelroede, visgarde
 * Finnish:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: מקל דיג
 * Japanese:
 * Latin: baculum


 * Latvian: makšķerkāts
 * Macedonian: ,
 * Polish: wędka
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: undiță
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbian: pecaljka, udica
 * Swedish: metspö, spö


 * Danish: stav, spanskrør, ris
 * Dutch: ,
 * Ewe: ati
 * Finnish:
 * French: verges (plurale tantum)
 * Japanese:
 * Latin:


 * Macedonian: ,
 * Polish: kij
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbian: prut, štap, rozga, šiba, batina
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: spö,


 * Dutch: roede, el, meetstok
 * Finnish: mittakeppi
 * Hebrew: מוט מדידה, קנה מידה
 * Macedonian:


 * Polish: pręt
 * Serbian: ,
 * Swedish: måttstock


 * Dutch:


 * Polish: pręt


 * Dutch:


 * French:


 * Danish:
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 * Greek:
 * Japanese:
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 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:, ,
 * Serbian:
 * Swedish: stång


 * Czech:
 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Hebrew:, תא קנה
 * Japanese: 杆体, 桿体


 * Polish: pręcik
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:


 * Danish: stavbakterie
 * Finnish:
 * Japanese: 杆菌, 桿菌
 * Macedonian: стапче


 * Polish: pałeczka
 * Portuguese: bacilo
 * Russian:


 * Finnish:


 * Polish: pałeczka, pręcik


 * Esperanto:
 * French: ; ; ; ; ;
 * Macedonian:


 * Polish: drążek
 * Portuguese:, , piça,
 * Swedish: stake


 * : 標尺, 标尺
 * : roede, staaf, stok
 * : staaf
 * : spiso
 * : asta
 * : 막대


 * : haste, cajado
 * : barra
 * : కడ్డీ
 * : khar-gyu

Anagrams

 * dor, D. Or.
 * dro
 * ord
 * RDO

Noun

 * 1) wheel

Etymology
From (compare Welsh rhod:, Old Irish roth:) <.

Noun

 * 1) family, stock, lineage
 * 2) genus
 * 3) gender
 * 4) voice

Derived terms

 * ženský rod
 * mužský rod
 * činný rod
 * trpný rod

Noun

 * 1) disorder, mess, muddle

Noun

 * 1) root
 * 2) yob

Related terms

 * gulerod
 * rodbehandling
 * rodfrugt
 * tandrod

Etymology 1
From the verb rode:.

Etymology 2
From rót:.

Adjective

 * 1) red

Noun

 * 1) cross (method of execution)
 * 2) a measure of land length, equal to a perch
 * 3) a measure of land area, equal to a quarter of an acre

Etymology
. Cognate with Old Frisian rōd, Old Saxon rōda, Dutch roede ‘rod’, Old High German ruota (German Rute), Old Norse róða ‘rod, cross’ (Danish rode ‘gauge, rod’).

Related terms

 * rōdfæstnian

Descendants

 * English: rood

Noun

 * 1) rhodium (chemical element, Rh, atomic number 45)

Noun
rod and


 * 1) fruit

Etymology
From a language.

Synonyms

 * fruct
 * poamă

Noun

 * 1) gender
 * 2)  genus
 * 3) relative, relation
 * 4) fruit, crop, extraction
 * 5) family, stock, lineage, kin

Etymology
From.

Derived terms

 * rȍdnī
 * ròdovskī
 * born, native
 * people