RODS

"RODS" is a plural of: rod.

Date "RODS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

Health

Mining

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Crosswords: RODS

Anyway, I'm applying because it's an outstanding university, not because the students engage in the rectal transport of steel rods. (Is It College Yet?; writing credit: Glenn Eichler; Peggy Nicoll)

But there is still good and evil, if Vile gets those lightanium rods, evil might just win. (Mega Man; writing credit: Mark Bender; James Samelson)

Hot Rods to Hell (1967)

Rods! (2002)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• The 2000 Import and Export Market for Iron and Steel Bars, Rods, Angles, Shapes and Sections in Latin America (reference)

• The 2002 World Forecasts of Iron and Steel Bars, Rods, Angles, Shapes and Sections Export Supplies (reference)

• The 2003 World Forecasts of Iron and Steel Bars, Rods, Angles, Shapes and Sections Export Supplies (reference)

• The World Market for Iron and Steel Bars, Rods, Angles, Shapes and Sections: A 2003 Global Trade Perspective (reference)

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Books

• Angler Profiles: A Collection of Some Legendary Anglers' Favorite Flies, Foods, Rods & Waters (reference)

• Engineering Street Rods (Practical Hot Rodder's Guide) (reference)

• Ford Hot Rods (Enthusiast Color Series) (reference)

• Hot Rods and Cool Customs (reference)

• Standard Guide to Building Street Rods and Custom Cars: How to Get the Most Car for Your Money (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Hemmings Rods & Performance (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Rods (reference)

• Bad Rods (reference)

• Street Rods (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Hot Rods & Custom Classics [BOX SET] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Consumer Goods

• Newell 13289 Heavy Duty Single Curtain Rods (reference)

• Veritas Tools 05J03.03 Shelf-Drilling Jig with 12" Rods (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Bacteria appeared as gram-positive rods among squamous epithelial cells and neutrophils in this vaginal smear. Credit: CDC.

Though common to the upper respiratory tract, C. pseudodiphtheriticum has only rarely been reported to cause disease in humans. The organism appears as short gram-positive rods that often lie in parallel rows on smear preparation. Credit: CDC.

Measuring baseline with wooden rods French expedition to Peru. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Deep driven rods for bench marks Crew from PATHFINDER. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Reef scene with sea rods. Credit: The Coral Kingdom.

Butter hamlet fish with sea rods. Credit: The Coral Kingdom.

Work-over rig/well completion tripping in the hole with rods. Credit: Merv Coleman.

... functional façades bristle with bamboo rods hung with brightly coloured clean linen. / WHO p. Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by T. Takahara..

Pogo]. Them li'l' hot rods. Credit: Library of Congress.

Central repair shop, Salem, Virginia. U.S. Civilian Conservation Corps Director, James J. McEntee, looks on while enrollees receive direction from instructor L.W. Overstreet for assemblying crank shaft, connecting rods, etc. Left to right: L.W. Overstre. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

There was a noise of curtainrings running back along the rods, of water being splashed in the basins.

Brake rods, exhausts, piled like snakes.

In the lowest gallery I beheld some people fishing with long angling rods, and others looking on.

Nay, I was frequently notified of the passage of a traveller along the highway sixty rods off by the scent of his pipe.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

The user manually adjusts the position of the penis and, therefore, the rods. Adjustment does not affect the width or length of the penis. (references)

Malleable implants usually consist of paired rods, which are inserted surgically into the corpora cavernosa, the twin chambers running the length of the penis. (references)

Viruses appear to be shaped like balls, cubes, or rods. Scientists differ over whether viruses are "alive" or not. Viruses cannot digest food or grow on their own. Viruses can make more of themselves, but they need to live inside the cells of other organisms (called "hosts") to multiply. (references)

Business

Steel products imported from the U.S. are mostly limited to reinforcing bars, wire rods, plates, galvanized sheets, and hot & cold-rolled specialty steel pipes. (references)

CPPIA now has more than 700 members nationwide making plastic films, plates, sheets, pipes, rods, tape, flame-retardant plastic conveyer belts and other laminated or composite plastic products. (references)

Advanced equipment and measurement instruments are needed to improve the performance, precision, and quality of products such as engine bodies, cylinder lids, cylinder liners, crankshafts, connecting rods, axles and wheels. (references)

Economic History

India

In case of JFTC, the major raw material is copper rods, which are imported. (references)

North Korea

Actual canning began in 1995. In April 2000, canning of all accessible spent fuel rods and rod fragments was declared complete. (references)

South Korea

The U.S. Department of Energy on April 21, 2000, completed the safe storage under IAEA seal of North Korea's accessible spent nuclear fuel rods and rod pieces. (references)

Human Rights

Brazil

Human rights groups claim that he died as a result of torture after police beat him and other prisoners with bars and metal rods and applied electric shocks to them. (references)

Burma

There are credible first-hand reports that, during interrogations, officials place metal rods between prisoners' fingers and squeeze them in an attempt to injure the prisoners' hands, and pour hot wax on prisoners' backs. (references)

Sri Lanka

Security force prisoners released by the LTTE in previous years stated that they had been subjected to torture, including being hung upside down and beaten, having pins inserted under their fingernails, and being burned with hot metal rods. (references)

Minorities

Slovak Republic

There was no progress during the year in a number of 2000 cases of violence against Roma, and others including, an August case in which Rom Jan Sudman was shot and injured while doing clean-up work in the public works program; a July case in which a group of 50 Roman armed with machetes, knives, axes, and iron rods allegedly forced a moving car to stop and attacked one of its occupants; a March case in which approximately 20 supporters of the skinhead movement attacked 2 Brazilians and 2 Angolans in Bratislava; and a January case in which a group of skinheads beat an African American citizen. (references)

Political Economy

MEXICO

Products subject to these duties are listed in the March 2, 2001, edition of the Diario Oficial (Mexico's equivalent of the Federal Register) and include pork, beef, apples, High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS), liquid soda, hydrogen peroxide, ammoniac sulphate, gasoline additives, cristal polysterene, polycloride (PVC), bonded paper, corrugated rods, and unfinished steel tubes. (references)

Trade

Poland

They include a wide range of diverse products, including wire rods, steel pipes and castings, motor vehicle components, bicycles, personal computers, fertilizers, and shampoo. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "RODS": bars and rods ♦ Corti's rods ♦ Flat rods ♦ Gram-Negative Aerobic Rods and Cocci ♦ Gram-Negative Facultatively Anaerobic Rods ♦ Gram-Positive Asporogenous Rods ♦ Gram-Positive Endospore-Forming Rods ♦ Gram-Positive Rods ♦ Ioffe's rods ♦ Napier's rods ♦ Rods (Retina) ♦ rods and cones ♦ rods of Corti ♦ string rods ♦ Wheatstone's rods. Additional references.

Ending with "RODS": con-rods, hot-rods, push-rods, stair-rods, tie-rods.

Danish

rørstreng (string, string of rods), i staalet med det laveste kulstofindhold paa 0,22 % findes cementitten inden i de stoerste tidligere martensitnaale som yderst fine stave;i korngraenserne mellem naalene,hvor den forekommer vaesentlig rigeligere,er stavene grovere (in the steel containing the lowest carbon content of 0.22 % C, the cementite is formed as very thin rods within the larger prior martensite needles: at the needle boundaries it occurs condsiderably more frequently and in thicker particles), akselkasse der er fastgjort til boggien med smaa styrearme (axle-box fastened to the bogie frame by means of small articulated rods), at anvende alle kontrolstaenger i sammenkobling (to use all control rods ganged together), borestamme (string, string of rods), borestreng (string, string of rods), bredholderstokke (expander rods), cementitten i bainit af uregelmaessigt formede,korte stave,der inden for det for det samme oprindelige austenitkorn har en ensartet orientering (the cementite in the bainite structure consists of iiregular short rods which are similarly oriented within one grain of the former austenite), Corti'ske søjleceller (Corti rods), ekspanderstokke (expander rods), fin,lamellar perlit,hvor karbidlamellerne findes som korte,ofte bugtede,uregelmaessigt fordelte stave (broken and irregular rods, fine lamellar pearlite, in which the carbide lamellae oc cur as short), Heidenhains stave (Heidenhain rods, Heidenhain striae), adskillelse af borerør (to tail out rods), i en ekstraktionsreplika ses de udskilte krystaller som smaa,forenede stave (the precipitated particles become visible in an extraction replica in the form of series of small rods or plates), traekning fra glasstaenger (drawing from rods), Ioffestaenger (Ioffe's bars, Ioffe's rods), Joffé-stænger (Ioffe's bars, Ioffe's rods), knipler,der bliver forvalset i et profilvaerk,tjener som udgangsmateriale for rund-og firkanstaal og for valsetraad (the rounds and squares and wire rods are rolled from billets on merchant mills), malelegemer (grinding balls, grinding bodies, grinding pebbles, grinding rods), pålægning med stave (laying with rods), saette kobbelstaenger paa et lokomotiv (to refit the locomotive rods), stang (bar, bars and rods, finger, horizontal, horizontal bar, member, pole, rod, select bar, selecting bar, vaulting pole), stav-og taplaget (layer of rods and cones, stratum bacillare retinae), traadbundt (bundle of rods). (various references)

Dutch

Staven,gebundeld of samengevoegd (bunch, in bundle, truss). (various references)

Finnish

vetäminen sauvasta (drawing from rods), vetää putkitanko kaivosta (to tail out rods), varsi (arm, bar, brace, handle, helve, shaft, stalk, stem), sauvaveto (drawing from rods), sauvanippu (bundle of rods), pumppuvarsi (string, string of rods), maton kiinnittäminen sauvojen avulla (laying with rods), levitintangot (expander rods), lankanippu (bundle of rods), jonokäyttö (string rods), Ioffen sauvajohtimet (Ioffe's bars, Ioffe's rods), Ioffen sauvajohdin (Ioffe's bars, Ioffe's rods). (various references)

French

Tiges en ballot,botte,faisceau. (various references)

German

Ruten. (various references)

Greek 

στύλοι όργανου Corti (Corti rods), ομαδικός χειρισμός όλων των ράβδων ρυθμίσεως (to use all control rods ganged together), οι κρυσταλλίτες που έχουν κατακρημνιστεί παρουσιάζονται επί των αποτυπώσεων εξαγωγής με την μορφή πλέγματος μικρών ράβδων (the precipitated particles become visible in an extraction replica in the form of series of small rods or plates), τα τεμάχια κυκλικής και τετράγωνης διατομής και το χονδρόσυρμα παράγονται με έλαση πρισμάτων σε έλαστρα εμπορίου (the rounds and squares and wire rods are rolled from billets on merchant mills), λεπτομερής φυλλοειδής περλίτης εντός του οποίου τα φυλλίδια καρβιδίου είναι μικρού μήκους,τεθλασμένα και διευθετημένα ακανόνιστα (broken and irregular rods), λιποκιβώτιο που στερεώνεται στο πλαίσιο του φορείου με μικρούς αρθρωτούς μοχλούς (axle-box fastened to the bogie frame by means of small articulated rods), μέθοδος τοποθέτησης και συγκράτησης με ράβδους (laying with rods), ξανατοποθετώ τους διωστήρες της μηχανής (to refit the locomotive rods), ο σεμεντίτης και ο βεανίτης αποτελούνται από στενές και ακανόνιστες λωρίδες όμοιου προσανατολισμού στο εσωτερικό του ίδιου κρυσταλλίτη ω� (the cementite in the bainite structure consists of iiregular short rods which are similarly oriented within one grain of the former austenite), κιβώτιο με αρθρωτή στερέωση (axle-box fastened to the bogie frame by means of small articulated rods), σε μία μονάδα αντλήσεως,που χρησιμοποιείται για την τεχνητή ανύψωση του ρευστού,η κεφαλή του αλόγου ανεβαίνει και κατεβαίνει μεταδίδοντας (and at the bottom of the sucker rod is the bottom-hole pump, the horsehead moves up and down imparting a reciprocating motion to the polish(ed)rod;the polished rod in turn is connected to a string of sucker rods), σειρά διατρητικών στελεχών (string, string of rods), ροή από ράβδους (drawing from rods), ράβδος του Ioffe (Ioffe's bars, Ioffe's rods), ράβδοι του Ioffe (Ioffe's bars, Ioffe's rods), ράβδοι τεντώματος (expander rods), κυλινδρικά κύτταρα ουροφόρων σωληναρίων (Heidenhain rods, Heidenhain striae), βέργες σε δέσμη (bundle of rods). (various references)

Italian

rimontare le bielle di una locomotiva (to refit the locomotive rods), in un'unit� di pompamento usata per il sollevamento artificiale,la testa del balanciere di pompamento si muove su e giù imprimendo un moto alternativo all'astina di pulizia;questa a sua volta è collegata ad una colonna di astine di pompamento,alla cui (and at the bottom of the sucker rod is the bottom-hole pump, in a pumping unit used for artificial lift, the horsehead moves up and down imparting a reciprocating motion to the polish(ed)rod;the polished rod in turn is connected to a string of sucker rods), barre del mantello (blanket rods), barre di Ioffé (Ioffe's bars, Ioffe's rods), bastoncini di HEIDENHAIN (Heidenhain rods, Heidenhain striae), biella di guida (connecting rods), boccola a biellette (axle-box fastened to the bogie frame by means of small articulated rods), elementi macinanti (grinding balls, grinding bodies, grinding pebbles, grinding rods), fascio di bacchette d'apporto (bundle of rods), barre (bars and rods, batten), i tondi,i quadri e la vergella sono laminati a partire da billette su treni per laminati mercantili (the rounds and squares and wire rods are rolled from billets on merchant mills), Usare tutte le barre di controllo in banco (to use all control rods ganged together), la cementite della bainite è composta di bastoncini corti e irregolari aventi una stessa orientazione nell'interno di un precedente grano di austenite (the cementite in the bainite structure consists of iiregular short rods which are similarly oriented within one grain of the former austenite), nell' acciaio più povero di carbonio, con 0.22 % C, la cementite nell'interno degli aghi più grossi di martensite preesistenti è molto fine, ha forma di bastoncini e si presenta molto più, frequentemente sui bordi degli aghi e sotto forma di particell (in the steel containing the lowest carbon content of 0.22 % C, the cementite is formed as very thin rods within the larger prior martensite needles: at the needle boundaries it occurs condsiderably more frequently and in thicker particles), nella replica di estrazione i cristallini precipitati sono visibili in forma di bastoncini ramificati (the precipitated particles become visible in an extraction replica in the form of series of small rods or plates), perlite a lamelle fini in cui le lamelle di carburo sono corte, spesso incurvate e disposte irregolarmente (broken and irregular rods, fine lamellar pearlite, in which the carbide lamellae oc cur as short), sbarre di Ioffé (Ioffe's bars, Ioffe's rods), strato dei coni e dei bastoncini (layer of rods and cones), tiratura partendo dalle bacchette di vetro (drawing from rods), filamenti di HEIDENHAIN (Heidenhain rods, Heidenhain striae). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

算木 (divining rods, sticks used for calculations). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

さ�"ぎ (councillor, divining rods, participation in government, sticks used for calculations). (various references)

Pig Latin

odsray

Portuguese

remover as extremidades das hastes de bombagem (to tail out rods), usar simultaneamente todas as barras de comando (to use all control rods ganged together), trem de varas (string, string of rods), hastes de transmissão (connecting rods), haste de produção (string rods), estiramento mecânico a partir de varetas de vidro (drawing from rods), coluna de furação (string, string of rods), caixa de varetas de adição (bundle of rods), bastonetes de Heidenhain (Heidenhain rods, Heidenhain striae), barras de Ioffé (Ioffe's bars, Ioffe's rods), barras alargadoras (expander rods), barra (bar, cross-bar, crowbar, girder, inlet, ray, strip, stripe, tablet, timber), as secções redondas e quadradas e o arame da máquina são laminados a partir de barras em transportadores de ferro (the rounds and squares and wire rods are rolled from billets on merchant mills), aco para betao armado (reinforcing bars, reinforcing iron and steel, reinforcing rods). (various references)

Spanish

la cementita de la bainita se forma en bandas cortas e irregulares que, en el interior de un mismo grano de austenita, se disponen siguiendo una misma dirección (the cementite in the bainite structure consists of iiregular short rods which are similarly oriented within one grain of the former austenite), barras de Ioffé (Ioffe's bars, Ioffe's rods), barras de transmisión (string rods), bastoncillos de Heidenhain (Heidenhain rods, Heidenhain striae), biela motriz (connecting rods), caja con bieletas (axle-box fastened to the bogie frame by means of small articulated rods), en las réplicas de extracción los cristales precipitados se presentan en forma de bastoncillos ramificados (the precipitated particles become visible in an extraction replica in the form of series of small rods or plates), barra (bar, counter, desk, loaf, pole, quarterstaff, rod, stick, wand), estirado a partir de varillas (drawing from rods), volver a montar las bielas de una locomotora (to refit the locomotive rods), los redondos y cuadrados y los alambrones se laminan a partir de las palanquillas en los trenes de perfiles comerciales (the rounds and squares and wire rods are rolled from billets on merchant mills), paquete de varillas de aportación (bundle of rods), perlita en láminas finas, en la que las láminas de carburo son cortas, con frecuencia curvadas y dispuestas irregularmente (broken and irregular rods, fine lamellar pearlite, in which the carbide lamellae oc cur as short), pilares de Corti (Corti rods), quitar las varillas de bombeo (to tail out rods), tren de transmisión (string rods), tren de varillas de sondeo (string, string of rods), usar todas las barras de regulación montadas juntas (to use all control rods ganged together). (various references)

Swedish

trådbunt (bundle of rods, clump), stavdragförfarande (drawing from rods), lyfta upp pumpstänger (to tail out rods), läggning av trappmatta med stänger (laying with rods), Ioffe-ledare (Ioffe's bars, Ioffe's rods), breddhållarstänger (expander rods), borrsträng (string, string of rods). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "RODS": rodsman, rodsmen. (additional references)

Words ending with "RODS": emerods, goldenrods, hotrods, nimrods, prods, pushrods, ramrods, sarods, schrods, scrods. (additional references)

Misspellings

"RODS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: eods, Ordos, Ords, Ordu, ordy, rads, raods, Rdo, rds, redds, rhds, rhod, ridz, rlds, rodas, Roddi, rodes, rodi, rofs, roids, rois, roks, rols, rors, ros, roys, rudas, rudes, rudis, rudus, Rudz, Rydz, srodes, trods. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: dors, sord.

-1 letter: dor, dos, ods, ors, rod, sod.

-2 letters: do, od, or, os, so.

+1 letter: cords, doers, doors, dorks, dorms, dorps, dorrs, dorsa, doser, drops, dross, duros, fords, lords, odors, ordos, prods, redos, resod, roads, roods, rosed, sarod, scrod, sords, sudor, sword, words.

+2 letters: adores, adorns, adsorb, ardors, aroids, boards, broads, broods, chords, coders, credos, crowds, decors, desorb, dobras, dobros, dolors, donors, dopers, dories, dorsad, dorsal, dorsel, dorser, dorsum, dosers, dosser, doters, douras, douser, dowers, dowser, dozers, droids, droits, drolls, drones, drools, droops, dropsy, drosky, drossy, drouks, droves, drowns, drowse, drowsy, durocs, erodes, fiords, fjords, fronds, gourds, hoards, hordes, horsed, hydros, odours, orders, oreads, pedros, prosed, radios, radons, redoes, redons, reshod, resods, resold, rodeos, rondos, roosed, rounds, roused, sarode, sarods, schrod, scored, scrods, shored, shroud, snored, soared, solder, sonder, sorbed, sordid, sordor, sorned, sorted, soured, spored, stored, strode, stroud, sudors, swords, uredos, worlds.