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1. n. 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. | |
2. n. A longitudinal pole used for forming part of a framework such as an awning or tent. | |
3. n. (fishing) 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. | |
4. n. A stick, pole, or bundle of switches or twigs (such as a birch), used for personal defense or to administer corporal punishment by whipping. | |
5. n. 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. | |
6. n. 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. | |
7. n. (archaic) A unit of length equal to 1 pole, a perch, ¼ chain, 5½ yards, 16½ feet, or exactly 5.0292 meters (these being all equivalent). | |
8. n. 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 | |
9. n. (archaic) 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. | |
10. n. 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. | |
11. n. (anatomy) 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. | |
12. n. (biology) Any of a number of long, slender microorganisms. | |
He applied a gram positive stain, looking for rods indicative of Listeria. | |
13. n. (chemistry) 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. | |
14. n. (slang) A pistol; a gun. | |
15. n. (slang) A penis. | |
16. n. (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 (currentl | |
17. n. (ufology) A rod-shaped object that appears in photographs or videos traveling at high speed, not seen by the person recording the event, often associated with extraterrestrial entities. | |
18. n. (mathematics) A Cuisenaire rod. | |
19. n. (rail transport) A coupling rod or connecting rod, which links the driving wheels of a steam locomotive. | |
20. v. (construction) To reinforce concrete with metal rods. | |
21. v. (slang) To penetrate sexually. | |
22. v. (slang) To hot rod. | |