| 单词 | rod |
| 释义 | rod (once / 259 pages) 1n 2n 3n 4n 5n A rod is a bar or a stick, like the curtain rods in your windows or the steel rods inside the structure of a building that help make it sturdy. A rod can be a staff, like a walking stick, or a metal bar used in construction projects. In tarot card decks, rods are are a suit that's also known as "wands" or "batons." You fish with a rod too, a long flexible pole. Most parents today disagree with the old-fashioned saying, "Spare the rod and spoil the child," which basically means "your kid will be spoiled if you don't hit them with a stick now and then." WORD FAMILYrod: rodlike, rods USAGE EXAMPLESA motor causes the thin, upright metal rods of Mike Shaffer’s “Ocean Motion” to jiggle and sway. Washington Post(Dec 29, 2016) In the meantime, a steel rod was drilled through Brubaker’s tibia. Washington Times(Dec 31, 2016) Rod Lucas, a deputy in Fresno County, California, was accidentally shot and killed by a fellow officer in October. The Guardian(Dec 29, 2016) 1 n a long thin implement made of metal or wood 2Hypo|Hyper baton, wand a thin tapered rod used by a conductor to lead an orchestra or choir batona hollow metal rod that is wielded or twirled by a drum major or drum majorette connecting roda rod that transmits motion (especially one that connects a rotating wheel to a reciprocating shaft) control roda steel or aluminum rod that can be moved up or down to control the rate of the nuclear reaction fishing pole, fishing roda rod of wood or steel or fiberglass that is used in fishing to extend the fishing line kickstanda swiveling metal rod attached to a bicycle or motorcycle or other two-wheeled vehicle; the rod lies horizontally when not in use but can be kicked into a vertical position as a support to hold the vehicle upright when it is not being ridden polea long (usually round) rod of wood or metal or plastic ramroda rod used to ram the charge into a muzzle-loading firearm ramroda rod used to clean the barrel of a firearm rotating shaft, shafta revolving rod that transmits power or motion shafta long rod or pole (especially the handle of an implement or the body of a weapon like a spear or arrow) stair-roda rod that holds a stair-carpet in the angle between two steps tie rodeither of two rods that link the steering gear to the front wheels wanda rod used by a magician or water diviner axlea shaft on which a wheel rotates barge polea long pole used to propel or guide a barge boom, microphone booma pole carrying an overhead microphone projected over a film or tv set cabera heavy wooden pole (such as the trunk of a young fir) that is tossed as a test of strength (in the Highlands of northern Scotland) camshafthas cams attached to it clothes tree, coat stand, coat treean upright pole with pegs or hooks on which to hang clothing crankshafta rotating shaft driven by (or driving) a crank driveshafta rotating shaft that transmits power from the engine to the point of application fly roda long flexible fishing rod used in fly fishing mastany sturdy upright pole piston rodconnecting rod that moves or is moved by a piston ski polea pole with metal points used as an aid in skiing spara stout rounded pole of wood or metal used to support rigging arbor, mandrel, mandril, spindleany of various rotating shafts that serve as axes for larger rotating parts spinning roda fishing rod designed for casting a spinning lure stiltone of two stout poles with foot rests in the middle; used for walking high above the ground thillone of two shafts extending from the body of a cart or carriage on either side of the animal that pulls it transmission shaftrotating shaft that transmits rotary motion from the engine to the differential implement instrumentation (a piece of equipment or tool) used to effect an end 1n a linear measure of 16.5 feet Syn|Hyper perch, pole linear measure, linear unit a unit of measurement of length 2n a square rod of land 3Syn|Hyper perch, pole area unit, square measure a system of units used to measure areas n a visual receptor cell that is sensitive to dim light 4Syn|Hyper retinal rod, rod cell visual cell one of the cells of the retina that is sensitive to light n any rod-shaped bacterium 5Hypo|Hyper streptobacillus any of various rod-shaped Gram-negative bacteria bacteria, bacterium (microbiology) single-celled or noncellular spherical or spiral or rod-shaped organisms lacking chlorophyll that reproduce by fission; important as pathogens and for biochemical properties; taxonomy is difficult; often considered to be plants n a gangster's pistol Syn|Hyper gat handgun, pistol, shooting iron, side arm a firearm that is held and fired with one hand |
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