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rod
1[ rod ]
noun
- a stick, wand, staff, or the like, of wood, metal, or other material.
- a straight, slender shoot or stem of any woody plant, whether still growing or cut from the plant.
- (in plastering or mortaring) a straightedge moved along screeds to even the plaster between them.
- a stick used for measuring.
- Archaic. a unit of linear measure, 5.5 yards or 16.5 feet (5.029 meters); linear perch or pole.
- Archaic. a unit of square measure, 30.25 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, especially when tyrannical.
- a slender bar or tube for draping towels over, suspending a shower curtain, etc.
- Bible. a branch of a family; tribe.
- a pattern, drawn on wood in full size, of one section of a piece of furniture.
- Slang.
- a pistol or revolver.
- Vulgar. the penis.
- Anatomy. one of the rodlike cells in the retina of the eye, sensitive to low intensities of light. Compare cone ( def 5 ).
- Bacteriology. a rod-shaped microorganism.
- Also called leveling rod, Surveying. a light pole, conspicuously marked with graduations, held upright and read through a surveying instrument in leveling or stadia surveying.
- Metallurgy. round metal stock for drawing and cutting into slender bars.
verb (used with object)
- to furnish or equip with a rod or rods, especially lightning rods.
- to even (plaster or mortar) with a rod.
- Metallurgy. to reinforce (the core of a mold) with metal rods.
rod
/ 谤蓲诲 /
noun
- 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 calledpoleperch
- a unit of length equal to 5 1 2 yards
- a unit of square measure equal to 30 1 4 square yards
- a straight narrow board marked with the dimensions of a piece of joinery, as the spacing of steps on a staircase
- a metal shaft that transmits power in axial reciprocating motion Compare shaft
piston rod, con(necting) rod
- surveying another name (esp US) for staff 1
- Also calledretinal 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 Compare cone
- any rod-shaped bacterium
- a slang word for penis
- slang name for pistol
- short for hot rod
rod
- 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.
- Compare cone
Derived Forms
- 藞谤辞诲藢濒颈办别, adjective
Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms
- 谤辞诲顎僱别蝉蝉 adjective
- 谤辞诲顎僱颈办别顎 adjective
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of rod1
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of rod1
Idioms and Phrases
see hot rod ; spare the rod .Example Sentences
Videos on social media show mobs armed with iron rods entering KFC stores and threatening to burn them down before police arrive to arrest protesters.
During his time in hospital in Spain he said music helped him deal with the trauma of the accident, as well as the operation to attach rods and screws onto his spine.
They discovered that the length of the rods between the puppeteer and the puppet resulted in small, unpredictable variations in the way the fictional quadruped moved.
He started working in the steelworks' rod mill in September 2022, and in August next year he is due to get married.
The lowest point in his life - he said - was being woken up to get hit with a metal rod to his head on his birthday.
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About This 亚洲网紅露点
What else does rod mean?
Rod can refer to a stick, handgun, car, parts of the eye, and even, well, the penis, among many other things. ROD can additionally serve as an acronym for the slang expression ride or die.
Where does rod come from?
Rod is evidenced in Old English when it meant, well, 鈥渞od鈥 or 鈥減ole.鈥 Over the centuries, rod took on many senses, such as a tool for corporal punishment and a unit of measurement.
We find the word rod used for 鈥減enis鈥 in the late 16th century. Rod crept up to the eyes鈥揳s in an eyeball鈥檚 rods and 肠辞苍别蝉鈥by 1866.
Rod was recorded in the sense of 鈥済un鈥 by the 1900s and 鈥済unman鈥 by the 1930s. The 1950s saw rod extended to the pistons of cars, as can be found in a hot rod car.
ROD is sometimes used as an acronym for ride or die, an expression of loyalty that was popularized by hip-hop.
How is rod used in real life?
Rod is widespread in the English language, referring to all sorts of pole-like items, from fishing rods to carbon rods. Of course, Rod is a short form of such names as Roderick, Rodney, and Rodriquez, such as Rod Stewart and A-Rod.
For as old as the slang term is, rod remains a colorful euphemism for 鈥減enis,鈥 and you鈥檒l occasionally see rod used for 鈥済un鈥 in criminal contexts.
ROD, for ride or die, can be seen as a hashtag #ROD on social media as a convenient proclamation of loyalty, no matter what, to one鈥檚 compadres.
It鈥檚 a different typa loyalty when yo best friends are yo siblings 馃拤
鈥 FINEFEUIAKI (@amzfine)
everyone is still hella confused when i mention corn so let me come thru rq. this is corn, he's my ROD, my wingman, my sidekick, my baby
鈥 A T O K A D (@kashtwt)
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More examples of rod:
鈥淎lthough this article focuses on how to replace strut rods on C2s and C3s, the procedure is similar for most other generation Corvettes. The parts options are also similar and include rubber polyurethane bushings and adjustable struts rods.鈥
鈥擩ohn Pfanstiehl, Hod Rod Network, December 2018
Note
This content is not meant to be a formal definition of this term. Rather, it is an informal summary that seeks to provide supplemental information and context important to know or keep in mind about the term鈥檚 history, meaning, and usage.
Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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