What is the meaning of Rod?
A straight, round stick, shaft, bar, cane, or staff.
A longitudinal pole used for forming part of a framework such as an awning or tent.
A long slender usually tapering pole used for angling; fishing rod.
A stick, pole, or bundle of switches or twigs (such as a birch), used for personal defense or to administer corporal punishment by whipping.
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.
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.
A unit of length equal to 1 pole, a perch, ⁄4 chain, 5⁄2 yards, 16⁄2 feet, or exactly 5.0292 meters (these being all equivalent).
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 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, 5⁄2 yards.
A unit of area equal to a square rod, 30⁄4 square yards or ⁄160 acre.
A straight bar that unites moving parts of a machine, for holding parts together as a connecting rod or for transferring power as a driveshaft.
A rod cell: a rod-shaped cell in the eye that is sensitive to light.
Any of a number of long, slender microorganisms.
A stirring rod: a glass rod, typically about 6 inches to 1 foot long and ⁄8 to ⁄4 inch in diameter that can be used to stir liquids in flasks or beakers.
The penis.
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.
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.
A coupling rod or connecting rod, which links the driving wheels of a steam locomotive, and some diesel shunters and early electric locomotives.
↑ Lightning conductor or rod in OSM
To reinforce concrete with metal rods.
To furnish with rods, especially lightning rods.
To hot rod.
root, zero (element in the domain of a function such that )
imperative of rode
cross (method of execution)
a measure of land length, equal to a perch
a measure of land area, equal to a quarter of an acre
third-person singular/plural present indicative of rast
third-person singular imperative of rast
third-person plural imperative of rast
sex (gender (male or female))
rhodium (chemical element, Rh, atomic number 45)
fruit (advantageous result)
inflection of roade:
first-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
third-person plural present indicative
family, stock, lineage, kin, race
Soft mutation of rhod.
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