rod
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
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Etymology: Etymology tree
Old English *rodd
Middle English rodde
English rod
From Middle English rodde, from Old English *rodd or *rodde (attested in dative plural roddum (“rod, pole”)), of uncertain origin, but probably from Proto-Germanic *rudd- (“stick, club”), from Proto-Indo-European *rewdʰ- (“to clear land”). Compare Old Norse rudda (“club”). For the root, compare English rid. Presumably unrelated to Proto-Germanic *rōdō (“rod, pole”).
Inflected forms:
form: rods
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: rods
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: rodding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: rodded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: rodded
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A straight, round stick, shaft, bar, cane, or staff.
pos: noun
examples: The circus strong man proved his strength by bending an iron rod, and then straightening it.
Which makes the concept known as Rods From God the ultimate form of kinetic weaponry. This theoretical weapon would drop telephone pole sized rods of dense tungsten from a satellite in orbit.
Picking up speed with each passing second, the rod would then penetrate the ground and generate an explosion akin to a small nuclear weapon using nothing but gravity for its propulsion.
gloss: A longitudinal pole used for forming part of a framework such as an awning or tent.
pos: noun
gloss: A long slender usually tapering pole used for angling; fishing rod.
pos: noun
examples: When I hooked a snake and not a fish, I got so scared I dropped my rod in the water.
gloss: A stick, pole, or bundle of switches or twigs (such as a birch), used for personal defense or to administer corporal punishment by whipping.
pos: noun
examples: So was I brought up: they tell mee, that in all my youth, I never felt rod [translating verges] but twice, and that very lightly.
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
examples: The judge imposed on the thief a sentence of fifteen strokes with the rod.
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
examples: I notched a rod and used it to measure the length of rope to cut.
gloss: A unit of length equal to 1 pole, a perch, ¹⁄₄ chain, 5+¹⁄₂ yards, 16+¹⁄₂ feet, or exactly 5.0292 meters (these being all equivalent).
pos: noun
tags: archaic
examples: ‘And this thicket, so full of a natural art, was in the immediate vicinity, within a few rods, of the dwelling of Madame Deluc, whose boys were in the habit of closely examining the shrubberies about them in search of the bark of the sassafras.’
In one of the villages I saw the next summer a cow tethered by a rope six rods long[…].
A few rods farther led him past the old black Presbyterian church, with its square tower, embowered in a stately grove; past the Catholic church, with its many crosses, and a painted wooden figure of St. James in a recess beneath the gable; and past the old Jefferson House, once the leading hotel of the town, in front of which political meetings had been held, and political speeches made, and political hard cider drunk, in the days of "Tippecanoe and Tyler too."
the valley is forty to sixty rods wide
gloss: 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 (US) 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+¹⁄₂ yards.
pos: noun
gloss: A unit of area equal to a square rod, 30+¹⁄₄ square yards or ¹⁄₁₆₀ acre.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
examples: The house had a small yard of about six rods in size.
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
examples: The engine threw a rod, and then went to pieces before our eyes, springs and coils shooting in all directions.
gloss: A rod cell: a rod-shaped cell in the eye that is sensitive to light.
pos: noun
examples: The rods are more sensitive than the cones, but do not discern color.
gloss: Any of a number of long, slender microorganisms.
pos: noun
examples: He applied a gram positive stain, looking for rods indicative of Listeria.
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
gloss: A pistol; a gun.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: One of them strode to his side and ran experienced fingers through his clothes. "No rod," he reported, "where's the jewelry?"
gloss: The penis.
pos: noun
tags: slang
vulgar
examples: [I'm gonna][…]throw some vaseline right in the crack a your ass, then I'm gonna shove my rod in your open hole and try to pacify your ornery soul.
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: slang
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
examples: These cylindrical rods fly through the air at incredible speeds and can only be picked up by high-speed cameras.
During one such broadcast in 1997, the esteemed radio host bellowed, “I got a fax earlier today from MUFON (Mutual UFO Network) in Arizona and they said what you think are rods are actually insects!”
He tells of a home video showing a rod flying into the open mouth of a girl singing at a wedding.
gloss: A Cuisenaire rod.
pos: noun
gloss: A coupling rod or connecting rod, which links the driving wheels of a steam locomotive, and some diesel shunters and early electric locomotives.
pos: noun
examples: In the early days troubles were experienced with oscillation from the rod drive and with the transformers, but were overcome later, and these machines performed useful service until superseded by more modern locomotives less costly in maintenance.
gloss: A drain rod, being a set of segmented rods with interlocking connectors designed to remain attached even under rotation in use.
pos: noun
gloss: To reinforce concrete with metal rods.
pos: verb
gloss: To furnish with rods, especially lightning rods.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To penetrate sexually.
pos: verb
tags: slang
transitive
vulgar
examples: On impulse he moved around to the opposite side of the couple, in the direction which Grace's broad buttocks were pointed, for a full view of the big boned woman's back side. Now Grace wouldn't mind one iota if he rodded her from the rear.
gloss: To hot rod.
pos: verb
tags: slang
examples: There were three clear sets, more than what you might expect at Heartbreak Point, given all the juvies rodding in and out of there with their girlfriends.
Related words: crook
Derived words: Aaron's rod
anglerod
Auer rod
axlerod
boning rod
carpet rod
cleaning rod
connecting rod
conrod
con rod
control rod
counting rod
coupling rod
Cuisenaire rod
curtain rod
dicker-rod
divining rod
dowsing rod
drawrod
ferrod
ferro ro roof:
fit rod
flatrod
flying rod
fly-rod
flyrod
fly rod
forty-rod
fuckrod
fuel rod
goldenrod
green rod
hot rod
interrod
kiss the rod
Lenker rod
lightning rod
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limerod
measuring rod
meat rod
microrod
Mosaical rod
myorod
nail rod
nanorod
picture rod
piston rod
plug rod
polyrod
pushrod
put a rod in pickle
rack rod
radius rod
ramrod
range rod
rat rod
Rhineland rod
riding-rod
rodbuster
rodder
roddy
rodfisher
rodfishing
rod for one's back
rod for one's breech
rod for one's own back
rod for one's own breech
rod-headed
rod in pickle
rodless
rodlet
rodlike
rod line
rod machine
rodmaker
rodmaking
rodman
rodmeter
rod numeral
rod of Asclepius
rod-on
rod pod
rod ring
rodshaped
rod-shaped
rodsman
rodster
rodwork
rule with a rod of iron
shepherd's rod
siderod
skirod
sounding rod
spare the rod and spoil the child
spare the rod, spoil the child
spinning rod
stair rod
stunrod
tension rod
thunder rod
tie rod
trolling-rod
truss rod
Wheatstone's rod
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: пръ́чка
roman: prǎ́čka
lang: Czech
word: metla
lang: Danish
word: stav
lang: Danish
word: spanskrør
lang: Danish
word: ris
lang: Dutch
word: roede
lang: Dutch
word: roe
lang: Esperanto
word: vergo
lang: Ewe
word: ati
lang: Finnish
word: vitsa
lang: French
word: verges
lang: German
word: Rute
lang: German
word: Zuchtrute
lang: Italian
word: verga
lang: Italian
word: bacchetta
lang: Japanese
word: 鞭
roman: muchi
lang: Latin
word: virga
lang: Latvian
word: rīkste
lang: Macedonian
word: прачка
roman: pračka
lang: Macedonian
word: стап
roman: stap
lang: Polish
word: kij
lang: Polish
word: rózga
lang: Portuguese
word: vara
lang: Russian
word: прут
roman: prut
lang: Russian
word: ро́зга
roman: rózga
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: пру̑т
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: шта̑п
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: ро̀зга
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: ши̏ба
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: ба̀тина
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: prȗt
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: štȃp
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: ròzga
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: šȉba
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: bàtina
lang: Lower Sorbian
word: pšut
lang: Spanish
word: vara
lang: Swedish
word: spö
lang: Swedish
word: ris
lang: Turkish
word: sopa
lang: Bulgarian
word: баци́л
roman: bacíl
lang: Danish
word: stavbakterie
lang: Finnish
word: sauvabakteeri
lang: German
word: Stäbchenbakterien
lang: German
word: Stäbchenbakterium
lang: German
word: Stäbchenbakterie
lang: Japanese
word: 杆菌
roman: kankin
lang: Japanese
word: 桿菌
roman: kankin
lang: Macedonian
word: стапче
roman: stapče
lang: Polish
word: pałeczka
lang: Portuguese
word: bacilo
lang: Russian
word: па́лочка
roman: páločka