Rod definitions
The definition of a rod is a thin, straight stick or bar.
An example of a rod is a fishing pole.
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A thin straight piece or bar of material, such as metal or wood, often having a particular function or use, as:
- A fishing rod.
- A piston rod.
- An often expandable horizontal bar, especially of metal, used to suspend household items such as curtains or towels.
- A leveling rod.
- A lightning rod.
- A divining rod.
- A measuring stick.
- One of the horizontal elements in a truss system underneath a rail car, especially a freight car.
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A shoot or stem cut from or growing as part of a woody plant.
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Any of various rod-shaped cells in the retina that respond to dim light.
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An elongated bacterium; a bacillus.
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A pistol or revolver.
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A penis, especially when erect.
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A stick or bundle of sticks or switches used to give punishment by whipping.
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Punishment; correction.
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A scepter, staff, or wand symbolizing power or authority.
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Power or dominion, especially of a tyrannical nature.
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A linear measure equal to 5.5 yards or 16.5 feet (5.03 meters).
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The square of this measure, equal to 30.25 square yards or 272.25 square feet (25.30 square meters).
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A straight, slender shoot or stem cut from, or still part of, a bush or tree.
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An offshoot or branch of a family or tribe; stock or race.
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Any straight, or almost straight, stick, shaft, bar, staff, etc., of wood, metal, or other material.
Curtain rods, a lightning rod.
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A stick used to measure something.
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A pistol or revolver.
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Any of the rod-shaped cells in the retina of the vertebrate eye that are sensitive to dim light.
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Any microorganism shaped like a bacillus.
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A stick or switch, or a bundle of sticks or switches, for beating as punishment.
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Punishment; chastisement.
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A staff, scepter, etc., carried as a symbol of office, rank, or power.
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Power; authority; often, tyrannical rule.
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A unit of length in the FPS system, equal to 16.5 feet or 5.5 yards (5.0292 meters)
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A square rod, equal to 30.25 square yards (25.2929 square meters)
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Any of various rod-shaped cells in the retina that respond to dim light.
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An elongated bacterium; a bacillus.
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One of the rod-shaped cells in the retina of the eye of many vertebrate animals. Rods are more sensitive to light than cones and are responsible for the ability to see in dim light. However, rods are insensitive to red wavelengths of light and do not contribute greatly to the perception of color.
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.
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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.
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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, surveying rod, leveling rod, ranging rod. The modern (US) 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.
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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.
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(biology) Any of a number of long, slender microorganisms.
He applied a gram positive stain, looking for rods indicative of Listeria.
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(slang) 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.
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(ufology) Rod-shaped objects which appear in photographs and videos traveling at high speed, not seen by the person recording the event, often associated with extraterrestrial entities.
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(mathematics) A Cuisenaire rod.
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