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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024rod /rɑd/USA pronunciation n. [countable]- a long straight stick, wand, or staff.
- a slender bar or tube for draping towels over, etc.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024rod (rod),USA pronunciation n., v., rod•ded, rod•ding. n. - a stick, wand, staff, or the like, of wood, metal, or other material.
- Botanya straight, slender shoot or stem of any woody plant, whether still growing or cut from the plant.
- See fishing rod.
- Building(in plastering or mortaring) a straightedge moved along screeds to even the plaster between them.
- Weights and Measuresa stick used for measuring.
- Weights and Measuresa unit of linear measure, 51⁄2 yards or 161⁄2 feet (5.029 m);
linear perch or pole. - Weights and Measuresa unit of square measure, 301⁄4 square yards (25.29 sq. m);
square perch or pole. - a stick, or a bundle of sticks or switches bound together, used as an instrument of punishment.
- punishment or discipline:Not one to spare the rod, I sent him to bed without dinner.
- a wand, staff, or scepter carried as a symbol of office, authority, power, etc.
- authority, sway, or rule, esp. when tyrannical.
- BuildingSee lightning rod.
- a slender bar or tube for draping towels over, suspending a shower curtain, etc.
- Biblea branch of a family;
tribe. - Furniturea pattern, drawn on wood in full size, of one section of a piece of furniture.
- Slang Terms
- a pistol or revolver.
- [Vulgar.]the penis.
- Anatomyone of the rodlike cells in the retina of the eye, sensitive to low intensities of light. Cf. cone (def. 5).
- Microbiology[Bacteriol.]a rod-shaped microorganism.
- SurveyingAlso called leveling rod, stadia rod. a light pole, conspicuously marked with graduations, held upright and read through a surveying instrument in leveling or stadia surveying.
- Metallurgyround metal stock for drawing and cutting into slender bars.
v.t. - Buildingto furnish or equip with a rod or rods, esp. lightning rods.
- Buildingto even (plaster or mortar) with a rod.
- Metallurgyto reinforce (the core of a mold) with metal rods.
- bef. 1150; Middle English rodd, late Old English; akin to Old Norse rudda club
rod′like′, adj.
Rod (rod),USA pronunciation n. - a male given name, form of Roderick or Rodney.
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: rod /rɒd/ n - a slim cylinder of metal, wood, etc; stick or shaft
- a switch or bundle of switches used to administer corporal punishment
- any of various staffs of insignia or office
- power, esp of a tyrannical kind: a dictator's iron rod
- a straight slender shoot, stem, or cane of a woody plant
- See fishing rod
Also called: pole, perch a unit of length equal to 5½ yards- a unit of square measure equal to 30¼ square yards
- another name (esp US) for staff1
- Also called: retinal rod any of the elongated cylindrical cells in the retina of the eye, containing the visual purple (rhodopsin), which are sensitive to dim light but not to colour
- any rod-shaped bacterium
- US
slang name for pistol - short for hot rod
Etymology: Old English rodd; related to Old Norse rudda club, Norwegian rudda, rydda twigˈrodˌlike adj |