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Definition: Rod |
RodNoun1. (British) a linear measure of 16.5 feet. 2. A long thin implement made of metal or wood. 3. Any rod-shaped bacterium. 4. A square rod of land. 5. Visual receptor cell sensitive to dim light. 6. (slang) a gangster's pistol. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
"Rod" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "famous power". |
Date "rod" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references) |
Note: Rod \Rod\, noun. [The same word as rood. See Rood.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Aerospace | A type of photoreceptive cell in the retina of the mammalian eye. Rods are involved in detection of movement and scotopic vision (night vision). (references) |
Census | (Re-writable Optical Disk) An optical disk that can be erased and rerecorded over and over again as opposed to a WORM (Write Once Read Many) optical disk that cannot be erased and revised. (references) |
Food & Agriculture | A cane retained at pruning for the production of fruit and shoots ; usually between eight and fifteen buds in length but actual length varies with system of pruning. Source: European Union. (references) |
Geography | Straight rod or bar with a flat face, graduated in plainly visible linear units with zero at the bottom, used in measuring the vertical distance between a point of the Earth's surface and the line of sight of levelling instrument that has been adjusted to a horizontal position; usually made of metal or well-seasoned wood. Source: European Union. (references) |
Health | A reception for vision, located in the retina. (references) |
Hydrologic | A graduated staff used in determining the difference in elevation between two points. The two most common types of rods are the Philadelphia Rod, graduated in feet and hundredths of a foot, and a California Rod, graduated in feet, inches, and eights of an inch. (references) |
Literature | Rod To kiss the rod. (See Kiss The Rod .). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Medicine | One of the special retinal receptor elements which are presumed to be primarily concerned with perception of light stimuli when the eye is adapted to darkness. Source: European Union. (references) |
Metallurgy | Refractory-covered steel rod, suspended inside a ladle and terminating in a stopper. Source: European Union. (references) |
Nuclear Energy & Physics | A relatively long and slender body of material used in or in conjunction with a nuclear reactor. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A 'fishing rod\' is a tool used to catch fish, usually for sport. (Sustenance and commercial fishing usually involves nets.) A length of fishing line is threaded along a long, flexible rod or pole; one end terminates in a barbed hook for catching the fish, while most of the rest of the line is wound around a reel at the base of the pole. The pulley-like arrangement of the reel allows the fish to be "reeled in" once caught. The use of a fishing rod is known as angling.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Fishing rod."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Rods are light-sensitive cellss in the retina of the eye.
The rod is an Imperial unit of length, also known as the pole or perch. It is equal to 5.5 yards or 16.5 feet; 5.029 metres.
The rod is supposedly a species of creature that flits about in the air at such a high speed as to not be seen by the naked eye, but which can be caught on video. See: Rod (cryptozoology).
A rod is a straight and slender stick; a wand; hence, any slender bar, as of wood or metal (applied to various purposes).
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Rod."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
ROD | English | Refused on delivery | Business |
ROD | Italian | Raggruppamenti omogenei per diagnosi | Medicine |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: RodSynonyms: gat (n), perch (n), pole (n), retinal rod (n), rod cell (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Measurement | Measure, yard measure, standard, rule, foot rule, compass, calipers; gage, gauge; meter, line, rod, check; dividers; velo. |
Scourge | Noun: scourge, rod, cane, stick; ratan, rattan; birch, birch rod; azote, |
Spell | Wand, caduceus, rod, divining rod, lamp of Aladdin; wishing-cap, Fortunatus's cap. |
Support | Supporter; aid; prop, stand, anvil, fulciment; cue rest, jigger; monkey; stay, shore, skid, rib, truss, bandage; sleeper; stirrup, stilts, shoe, sole, heel, splint, lap, bar, rod, boom, sprit, outrigger; ratlings. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Screenplays | Yes, they don't like hearing it and find it difficult to say whereas without batting an eye a man will refer to his dick or his rod or his Johnson (The Big Lebowski; writing credit: Ethan Coen; Joel Coen) Class, this is my brother Rod Belding (Saved by the Bell; writing credit: Ana Maria Moretzsohn) My name is Rod Rescueman (Twice Upon a Time; writing credit: Bill Couturié; Suella Kennedy) We threw a rod! (The Blues Brothers; writing credit: Dan Aykroyd ; John Landis) It must be Rod Serling (The Golden Child; writing credit: Dennis Feldman) | |
Lyrics | BY ROD TEMPERTON (SWEET FREEDOM; performing artist: Michael McDonald) | |
Clever | 16.5 feet in the Twilight Zone: 1 Rod Sterling. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Rod Steele 0014: You Only Live Until You Die (2002) Two Roses and a Golden Rod (1969) Hot Rod Hullabaloo (1966) Spare the Rod (1961) Hot Rod Gang (1958) | |
Song Titles | Hot Rod Hearts (performing artist: Robbie Dupree) | |
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An adult black man is pictured here alone. He was diagnosed as having osteogenic sarcoma in his upper left arm. Surgeons performed a new procedure implanting a metal rod in place of the cancerous bone. Since muscle and tendon were saved, he is able to use his left arm. Surgeons could attempt this daring new technique since the cancer had not spread. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer). | Neurosyphilis is a slowly progressive and destructive infection of the brain and spinal cord that occurs in untreated syphilis. Image shows bipolar, elongated microglia or rod cells characteristic of paretic neurosyphilis; Hortega Silver stain; Mag. 950X. Credit: CDC. | ||
![]() | "Volume 1" by Rod Rodrigues. | ![]() | "Volume 2" by Rod Rodrigues. |
![]() | Early level crew - passing the mallet Rear rodman passing front rodman, recorder pulling Rodman moving ahead will drive spike to steady rod. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. | ![]() | Rodman with stadia rod for distance measurement Crew off of EXPLORER. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
![]() | Tuna caught with rod and reel and live bait. Credit: Fisheries. | ![]() | Fisherman preparing rod and reel for tuna fishing. Credit: Fisheries. |
![]() | A knobby purple sea rod. Credit: The Coral Kingdom. | ![]() | RAINIER Field Operations Officer, Lt. E. J. Van Den Ameele, works with Senior Survey Tech Winli Lin leveling the tide gauge while Survey Tech Nicole Stagner holds the level rod. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Rod Iron" by Brad David Commentary: "Rod Iron structure with a tan wall." | "Hot Red, Hot Rod" by Dustin Byerley Commentary: "A beautiful super shiny,super vibrant red hot rod with a crisp chrome grill." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
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| Starting up hot rod. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Author | Quotation |
Alexander Pope | Did some more sober critics come abroad? If wrong, I smil'd; if right, I kiss'd the rod. |
George Herbert | Throw away thy rod, throw away thy wrath; O my God, take the gentle path. |
James Russell Lowell | Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave. |
John Owen | We ought as much to pray for a blessing upon our daily rod as upon our daily bread. |
Martin Luther | What can only be taught by the rod and with blows will not lead to much good; they will not remain pious any longer than the rod is behind them. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine. |
Rod Serling | Hollywood's a great place to live...if you're a grapefruit. |
Samuel Butler | Then spare the rod and spoil the child. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
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Young Zaphod Plays It Safe | Douglas Adams | said the official, examining the ultra-titanium outer seals of the aorist rod hold |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Fantine had the long, white, slender fingers of the vestals that stir the ashes of the sacred fire with a golden rod. |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | He worked the rod against the shaft |
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Health | Bacillus anthracis, the etiologic agent of anthrax, is a large, gram-positive, nonmotile, spore-forming bacterial rod. The three virulence factors of B. anthracis are edema toxin, lethal toxin and a capsular antigen. (references) | |
Economic History | Sierra Leone | Sierra Leone has one of the world's largest deposits of rutile, a titanium ore used as paint pigment and welding rod coatings. (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 | Tunisia | Police also reportedly utilized the "rotisserie" method: stripping prisoners naked, manacling their wrists behind their ankles, and beating the prisoners while they were suspended from a rod. (references) |
Cameroon | Two forms of physical abuse commonly reported to be inflicted on detainees include the "bastinade," in which the victim is beaten on the soles of the feet, and the "balancoire," in which the victim, with his hands tied behind his back, is hung from a rod and beaten, often on the genitals. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
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Rush Limbaugh | A racist nation doesn't make Bill Cosby and Oprah Winfrey and Michael Jordan icons in their fields, nor does it elevate Condoleezza Rice, Colin Powell, Rod Paige and so many other people of color to positions of national leadership. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Rod" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 65.95% of the time. "Rod" is used about 1,203 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 65.95% | 793 | 8,741 |
| Noun (proper) | 32.23% | 388 | 14,252 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 1.33% | 16 | 87,710 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 0.42% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Noun (common) | 0.08% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,203 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "rod" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Rod | First name Male | 13,000 | 599 |
| Rod | Last name | 300 | 26,120 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| "Rod" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "famous power". | |||
| The following table summarizes names related to "Rod." | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Related Name |
| Rod | Male | English | Roderick |
| Roddy | Male | English | Roderick |
| Roderic | Male | English | Roderick |
| Roderick | Male | English | N/A |
| Rodrigue | Male | French | Roderick |
| Rodrigo | Male | Italian | Roderick |
| Rurik | Male | Russian | Roderick |
| Rodina | Female | Scottish | Roderick |
| Rodrigo | Male | Spanish | Roderick |
| Rhydderch | Male | Welsh | Roderick |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Country | Name |
| USA | Lightning Rod Software, Inc. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "rod": aarons rod ♦ Aaron's rod ♦ aarron's rod ♦ absorber rod worth ♦ articulated rod ♦ birch rod ♦ black rod ♦ carpet rod ♦ casting rod ♦ centering rod ♦ centring rod ♦ charging rod ♦ connecting rod ♦ control rod ♦ control rod follower ♦ control rod shadowing ♦ control rod worth ♦ core rod ♦ couping rod ♦ curtain rod ♦ dipping rod ♦ Discharging rod ♦ diving rod ♦ Divining rod ♦ dowsing rod ♦ drill rod ♦ earth rod ♦ Eccentric rod ♦ extension rod ♦ fish rod ♦ fishing rod ♦ fishing with spinning rod ♦ Fit rod ♦ fly rod ♦ follower rod ♦ forked rod ♦ Gauge rod ♦ Gauging rod ♦ Gentleman usher of the black rod ♦ GOLDEN ROD ♦ ground rod ♦ hand and rod puppet ♦ have a rod in pickle ♦ have a rod in pickle for ♦ have a rod in pickle for smb. ♦ have a rod in pickled for smb. ♦ hinge rod ♦ hot rod ♦ iron rod ♦ Jacob's rod ♦ keep a rod in pickle for ♦ kiss the rod ♦ laze rod ♦ level rod ♦ leveling rod ♦ levelling rod ♦ Lifting rod ♦ lightning rod ♦ Lime rod ♦ link rod ♦ measuring rod ♦ metal arc welding with rod electrodes ♦ oil gauge rod ♦ parallel rod ♦ piston rod ♦ plug rod ♦ pump rod ♦ push rod ♦ retinal rod ♦ rod aerial ♦ rod and line ♦ rod bacterium ♦ rod cell ♦ Rod cells ♦ rod cover ♦ rod end ♦ rod end pin ♦ rod inner slide ♦ Rod Laver ♦ rod mirror ♦ rod of empire ♦ Rod Outer Segments ♦ rod reflector ♦ rod restraint ♦ rod thief ♦ rod wax ♦ rod worth minimizer ♦ rule with a rod of iron ♦ Shepherd's rod ♦ side rod ♦ sounding rod ♦ spare the rod spoil the child ♦ spinning rod ♦ stadia rod ♦ stair rod ♦ stay rod ♦ steel rod ♦ stemming rod ♦ stopper rod ♦ stopper rod assembly ♦ stuck rod worth. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "rod": rod-bearing, rod-bending, rod-butt, rod-case, rod-free, rod-lengths, rod-like, rod-man, rod-rest, rod-rests, rod-shaped, rod-shift, rod-spikes, rod-tip. | |
Ending with "rod": Dyno-rod, fishing-rod, trout-rod. | |
Containing "rod": ferrite-rod aerial, Golden-rod tree. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
hot rod | 6,368 | shower curtain rod | 207 |
street rod | 2,617 | hot rod picture | 194 |
lightning rod | 2,408 | st croix rod | 167 |
fly rod | 1,804 | shower rod | 164 |
rod stewart | 1,595 | sage fly rod | 162 |
fishing rod | 1,252 | hot rod circuit | 160 |
curtain rod | 1,058 | fishing rod holder | 148 |
hot rod magazine | 914 | laser rod | 144 |
rod | 662 | rod holder | 141 |
fly fishing rod | 555 | rod end | 140 |
hot rod for sale | 445 | golden rod | 137 |
v rod | 410 | custom hot rod | 134 |
street rod for sale | 393 | bamboo fly rod | 133 |
classic hot rod | 319 | rod and custom | 126 |
harley davidson v rod | 295 | hot rod truck | 123 |
rod parsley | 291 | rat rod | 122 |
hot rod part | 265 | star rod | 121 |
hot rod car | 257 | rod and reel | 119 |
drapery rod | 215 | welding rod | 119 |
rod stewart lyrics | 214 | harley v rod | 115 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "rod"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | hengel (fishing, fishing rod). (various references) | |
Albanian | revole (gun, pistol, revolver, shooter), thupër (bar, birch, cane, drumstick, fiddlestick, ramrod, stick, wand, withy), shufër (bar, ingot, pole), shkopth, shkop (bat, baton, Billy, cane, cudgel, pointer, pole, roost, staff, stick, truncheon, walking stick), purtekë (perch, pole, roost, scull), kallam (cane, Reed), dajak (club, cudgel, drubbing, rocket, thrashing, walloping, whopping). (various references) | |
Arabic | مسدس (colt, gun, hexagon, pistol, revolver, shooter), قضيب (bar, baton, draw-bar, mace, penis, phallus, pointer, rail, shaft, staff, stem, stick, switch, wand), قصبة (stem, stubble), عود (accustom, be accustomed to, break, condition, flesh, habituate, inure, lute, wont), صنارة صيد (hook), صولجان (mace, scepter, sceptre, verge, wand), ذكر (admonish, citation, invoke, masculine, mate, mention, recall, recollect, remember, remind, son), القصبة مقياس للطول (perch), العصوية جرثومة. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | мотовилка (link, piston rod, pitman, rocker), пенис (pecker, penis, prick), прът (club, pivot, pole, stick, upright), пръчица в ретината, пръчка (bar, bastinado, stick), пръчковиден бацил, бой с пръчки, племе (clan, spawn, tribe), жезъл (baton, staff, truncheon, verge, wand, warder), род (breed, clan, family, gender, genus, house, kin, kind, kindred, line, manner, name, order, origin, parentage, race, sort, species, stamp, stock, strain, tribe), мярка за дължина (chain, furlong, link, nail, pole), вейка (offset, shoot, sprig, switch, twig, windle-straw), въдичар, въдичарски прът, теглич (beam, shaft, shank, tongue), щанга (weight), револвер (heater, pistol, repeater, repeating rifle, revolver), бутален прът. (various references) | |
Chinese | 棍子 (stick), 标尺. (various references) | |
Czech | tyè (bar, pole, post, rail, scape, shank, staff, stick, upright), táhlo (piston rod, pull), prut (bar, stick, wand, weal), hùl (baton, crook, staff, stick). (various references) | |
Danish | valsetråd, stang (bar, bars and rods, finger, horizontal, horizontal bar, member, pole, select bar, selecting bar, vaulting pole), skud (bang, blast, clump shoots, filling, filling weft, flush, fruit cane, green shoot, pick, shoot, shot, shute, sprout, tiller, weft, woof), landmålerstok (flag, level rod, leveling rod, pole, range-pole, surveying rod, surveyor's rod), krumtapstang, jalon (level rod, leveling rod, range-pole, surveying rod, surveyor's rod), forbindelsesstang (articulated rod, cross rod, hinge rod, link, steering connecting rod, steering tie bar, steering tie rod, steering track rod, tie rod). (various references) | |
Dutch | stang (pole), schacht (pole, shaft), roede (decametre, pole, switch, wand), paal (pole, post, stake, stanchion), baar (cash, in cash, litter, pole, strecher, wave). (various references) | |
Esperanto | vergo (switch, wand), stango (pole). (various references) | |
Faeroese | rís (rice, switch, wand), stong (pole), stólpi (pole, post, stake, stanchion), greinar (switch, wand). (various references) | |
Farsi | میله دارکردن (Pale, Spoke), میله (Axle, Bar, Beam, Filament, Gad, Lever, Pivot, Shaft, Slat, Spike, Stem, Stilt, Style), میل (Bar, Delight, Desire, Goo, List, Perch, Ramrod, Stanchion, Stomach, Streak, Tendency, Turquoise, Will, Zest), چوب (Shaft, Spunk, Stave, Stick, Timber, Wood), قدرت (Authority, Godown, Might, Nerve, Posse, Potency, Power, Sovereignty, Vim, Vis, Zing), ترکه (Bequest, Bough, Heirloom, Offshoot, Scion, Spray, Sprig, Switch, Twig, Wand, Wattle), عصا (Bat, Cane, Stick, Wand), برق گیر. (various references) | |
Finnish | raippa (lash, whip), vapa, valssilanka (rolled wire, wire rod), tanko (bar, pole, staff, stick), sauva (baton, crosier, staff, stick, wand), satoverso (fruit cane, fruiting canes, porter), mittatanko (level rod, leveling rod, range-pole, surveying rod, surveyor's rod), latta (graduated staf, level rod, leveling rod, range-pole, stadia rod, surveying rod, surveyor's rod). (various references) | |
French | baguette, barre (rolled bar), tringle (curtain rod), perche, gaule, badine. (various references) | |
Frisian | stange (pole). (various references) | |
German | Stange (bar, Barre, bit, bone, branch, brush, crossbar, perch, pole, rail, roost, stick), Stab (bar, baton, cane, crook, crosier, dipstick, headquarters, Mace, panel, pole, rail, staff, stave, stick, stump, swab, wand), Rute (birch, cane, penis, pizzle, pole, prick, rood, stick, switch, tail, wand), Gerte (crop, riding crop, switch, wand, whip). (various references) | |
Greek | κοντάρι (boat hook, pikestaff, pole, shaft, spar, spear), ράβδοσ (bandy, bar, baton, crook, drub, ferule, ingot, perch, shaft, staff, stick, truncheon, verge, walking stick, wand), ράβδος (bar), ραβδί (cane, stick), βέργα (ferule, pointer, rail, switch, twig, wattle, with), μπιέλα (connecting rod, conn-rod, con-rod, piston rod, pitman, push rod), μήκοσ μισών υαρδών, μακρού μήκους παραγωγική μονάδα (fruit cane), μοχλός (lever), πιστόλι (gun, pistol), χωροσταθμική ράβδος (level rod, leveling rod, range-pole, surveying rod, surveyor's rod), χωροσταθμική πήχυς (level rod, leveling rod, range-pole, surveying rod, surveyor's rod), χονδρόσυρμα, αμολητή (fruit cane), διωστήρας (connecting rod, conn-rod, con-rod, control rod, piston rod, pitman, push rod, pusher). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מוט (bar, boom, gad, pole, roost, shaft, staff, stake, yoke), מקל (extenuating, ferule, indulgent, lenient, palliative, staff, stave, stick, switch), שבט (baton, clan, family, sceptre, stick, tribe), שרביט (staff, wand), קנה (cane, Reed, stalk, stem, stick), חוטר (branch, pointer, shaft, shoot, slip, twig), בדיד (spade). (various references) | |
Hungarian | rúd (balk, bar, beam, handle, ingot, pole, shank, slot, spar, staff, stave, stele, stick). (various references) | |
Indonesian | tangkai (culm, stalk, stem), batang (corpse, log, pole, stem, stick, trunk). (various references) | |
Italian | barra (bar, helm, pole, slash, stick), verga (bar, birch, cane, ferule, rood, staff, verge). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 竿 (pole), ロッグウッドの木 (lodge, logwood, lotte, Lotteria, robber, rod antenna, rodeo, Rosser, Rossini, rot, Rotring), 棹 (pole, violin neck), 棒 (pole, stick). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ロッド , ぼう (ancient Chinese imperial jewels, certain, divide, fourth sign of Chinese zodiac, length, net, one, people, pole, shaggy dog, shaggy hair, stick), さお (pole, violin neck). (various references) | |
Korean | 막대. (various references) | |
Manx | persh, maidjey (bail, bail in stable, bar, bar on doorway, bat, boarding, club, cue, lever, pitprop, pointer, pole, stick, straddle, wooden). (various references) | |
Norwegian | stang (pole). (various references) | |
Papiamen | bara (pole). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | odray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | vara (baton, cane, ell, fish rod, herd, pole, staff, stalk, stick, switch, wand, wattle), haste (bar, bind, bine, fish rod, halm, haulm, spindle, stalk, stem, stock, wattle), biela (connect, connecting rod). (various references) | |
Romanian | pedeapsã (calamity, castigation, chastisement, cuss, discipline, imposition, lag, pain, payment, pedate, penalty, penance, performance, plague, punishment, retribution, sanction, trouble), bãţ (bat, club, gad, stick, switch), baghetã (stick, switch, wand), baston (bat, baton, cane, cudgel, Mace, staff, stave, stick, walking stick), mãsurã de lungime (chain, linear measure, long measure), mirã, ştangã (bar), nuia (switch, whip), vergea (birch, rolling pin, wand, whip), pistol (gat, pistol), sceptru (authority, crown, power, scepter, sceptre, sway), tijã (stem), toiag (baton, staff, stick, truncheon, wand), undiţã (angle, fish hook, fishing rod, hook, line), vargã (stick, wand), nenorocire (accident, affliction, bale, bane, blow, calamity, catastrophe, curse, disaster, distress, evil, ill, misadventure, misery, misfortune, need, reverse, scourge, sore, trouble). (various references) | |
Russian | прут (switch, twig). (various references) | |
Scottish | slat (a rod, switch, twig, wand, yard). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | telesna kazna (corporal punishment), prut (birch, switch, with), batina (bludgeon, club, cudgel, paddle, stick), štap (billy, cane, crook, goad, prod, stick, truncheon, verge), šipka (bar, ingot, stick). (various references) | |
Spanish | vara (birch rod, cane, rood, switch), jalón (flag, level rod, leveling rod, peg, picket, pole, range-pole, stake, surveying rod, surveyor's rod), biela (connecting rod), barra (bar, counter, desk, loaf, pole, quarterstaff, stick, wand). (various references) | |
Swedish | stav (baton, cane, staff, stave, stick), stång (bar, Barling, baton, cane, pole, staff, stick), spö (cane, switch, twig, whip). (various references) | |
Thai | ไม้เรียว, ไม้วัด, ไม้หรือโลหะแท่งยาวๆ, ปืนเล็ก, คันเบ็ด. (various references) | |
Turkish | tabanca (colt, equalizer, gat, gun, heater, peashooter, persuader, pistol, pop, revolver), sopa (bashing, bat, baton, beating, birc-rod, bludgeon, cane, caning, club, cosh, cudgel, drubbing, ferule, fescue, flogging, shillelagh, stick, switch), sırık (giant stride, pole, stick), penis (Dick, Dong, joystick, knob, pecker, penis, Peter, phallus, prick, tool), kol (arm, branch, crank, embranchment, flipper, foreleg, handle, limb, offset, ramification, rounds, sleeve, stick, stolon, subsection, tappet, wing), kamış (bulrush, cane, penis, Reed, sedge, straw, wattles), ince dal (sprig, switch, twig, vimen), güç (ability, arduous, arm, baffling, capability, capacity, clout, clutch, clutches, command, control, difficult, dominance, energy, force, forcefulness, hard, intensity, iron, might, pep, pith, potency, potential, power, punch, sinew, spirit, stamina, steam, sting, strength, stuffing, sword, tone, tricksy, vigor, vigour, vim, vis, vitality, zing), filiz (bud, burgeon, button, cion, growth, offshoot, ore, outgrowth, shoot, spine, spray, sprig, sprout, tendril, tiller), değnek (cane, cudgel, ferule, staff, stick), dayak (bashing, basting, beating, birching, caning, chastisement, corporal punishment, dressing down, drubbing, dusting, flogging, fustigation, hiding, lacing, licking, prop, rubdown, sock, the works, thrashing, trimming, wallop, whacking, whaling, whipping), baston (staff, stick, walking stick), asa (baton, scepter, sceptre, staff, stick, wand), çubuk (baton, chopstick, rib, stave, stick, strip, stripe, switch, tobacco pipe, wand), çük (joystick, knob, pecker, penis, phallus, prick). (various references) | |
Turkmen | зybyk (switch). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | скіпетр (scepter, sceptre), влада (arm, ascendance, ascendancy, ascendant, attribution, authority, cathedra, command, domination, faculty, grip, gripe, hold, in, lordship, reign), жезл (baculus, baton, staff, truncheon, wand, warder), прут (whip). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | thanh kéo, ghét cho chơi, cần (necessary, needful, wanted), cái que, cái gậy, cái cần cái roi, bó roi. (various references) | |
Welsh | gwialen (switch), gwaell (knitting needle). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | rhabdos. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | asser, bacillum, contus, falangas, festuca, hasta, pertica, radi, radii, radiis, radio, radios, radius, regula, regulae, regulam, regulamque, talea, trudis, virga. (various references) |
| Old French | 900-1400 | guaroc. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Proverbs Chapter 23, Verse 14 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Su men gar pataxeiV auton rabdw thn de yuchn autou ek qanatou rush |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Tu virga percuties eum et animam eius de inferno liberabis |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Thou with a yerde shalt smite hym, and the soule of hym fro helle thou shalt deliueren. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | Give him blows with the rod, and keep his soul safe from the underworld. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Proverbs Chapter 23, Verse 14 |
| Cebuano | Imong pagahampakon gayud siya uban sa bunal, Ug maluwas ang iyang kalag gikan sa Sheol. |
| Chinese | 你 要 用 杖 打 他 、 就 可 以 救 他 的 靈 魂 免 下 陰 間 。 |
| Croatian | biješ ga šibom, ali mu dušu iz Podzemlja izbavljaš. |
| Danish | du slår ham vel med Riset, men redder hans Liv fra Dødsriget. |
| Dutch | Gij zult hem met de roede slaan, en zijn ziel van de hel redden. |
| Finnish | Vitsalla sinä häntä lyöt, tuonelasta hänen sielunsa pelastat. |
| French | En le frappant de la verge, Tu délivres son âme du séjour des morts. |
| German | Du haust ihn mit der Rute; aber du errettest seine Seele vom Tode. |
| Haitian Creole | Okontrè, si ou bat li, w'a sove nanm li pou l' pa mouri. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | malah akan selamat. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | melainkan apabila engkau memukul akan dia, barangkali engkau melepaskan nyawanya dari pada neraka. |
| Italian | anzi, se lo batti con la verga, lo salverai dagli inferi. |
| Korean | 그 를 채 찍 으 로 때 리 면 그 영 혼 을 음 부 에 서 구 원 하 리 라 |
| Maori | Tatatia ia e koe ki te rakau, a ka whakaorangia e koe tona wairua i te reinga. |
| Norwegian | Du slår ham med riset, men du frelser hans sjel fra dødsriket. |
| Portuguese | Tu a fustigarás com a vara e livrarás a sua alma do Seol. |
| Rumanian | Lovindu -l cu nuiaua, ki scoyi sufletul din locuinya moryilor. |
| Russian | ФЩ ОБЛБЦЕЫШ ЕЗП ТПЪЗПА Й УРБУЕЫШ ДХЫХ ЕЗП ПФ РТЕЙУРПДОЕК. |
| Spanish | Tú lo castigarás con vara y librarás su alma del Seol. |
| Swedish | ja, om du slår honom med riset, så räddar du hans själ undan dödsriket. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "rod": rodded, rodding, rode, rodent, rodenticide, rodenticides, rodents, rodeo, rodeoed, rodeoing, rodeos, rodless, rodlike, rodman, rodmen, rodomontade, rodomontades, rods, rodsman, rodsmen. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "rod": downtrod, emerod, goldenrod, hotrod, nimrod, prod, pushrod, ramrod, sarod, schrod, scrod, trod, untrod. (additional references) | |
Words containing "rod": acrodont, acrodonts, aerodrome, aerodromes, aeroduct, aeroducts, aerodynamic, aerodynamical, aerodynamically, aerodynamicist, aerodynamicists, aerodynamics, aerodyne, aerodynes, anaphrodisiac, anaphrodisiacs, antiaphrodisiac, antiaphrodisiacs, aphrodisiac, aphrodisiacal, aphrodisiacs, arthrodeses, arthrodesis, astrodome, astrodomes, bestrode, byproduct, byproducts, coproduce, coproduced, coproducer, coproducers, coproduces, coproducing, coproduct, coproduction, coproductions, coproducts, corodies, corody, corrode, corroded, corrodes, corrodible, corrodies, corroding, corrody, counterproductive, dichlorodifluoromethane, dichlorodifluoromethanes, downtrodden. (additional references) | |
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"Rod" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: arod, arood, drood, eod, erod, grodd, hrood, orda, Ordu, ordy, rad, Radd, raod, Rdo, rdp, redd, rfd, rhd, rhod, ridd, riod, rlo, rmd, Rnoc, ro, roa, Roddi, rodi, rof, rog, roh, roi, Roid, roj, rok, romdy, rond, roo, roq, Ror, rou, rov, rowd, rox, roz, rsd, rtd, rud, rudd, Rudp, ruod, rvd, srod, urdo, vod, yod. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "rod" (pronounced rÄ"d) |
| 3 | r Ä" d | prod, scrod, trod. |
| 2 | -Ä" d | Ballade, cod, esplanade, facade, God, nod, odd, plod, pod, quad, roughshod, shod, sod, squad, Tod, wad. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: dor. | |
| Words within the letters "d-o-r" | |
-1 letter: do, od, or. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-o-r" | |
+1 letter: cord, doer, door, dore, dork, dorm, dorp, dorr, dors, dory, dour, drop, duro, ford, lord, odor, orad, ordo, prod, redo, road, rode, rods, rood, sord, trod, word. | |
+2 letters: adore, adorn, ardor, aroid, board, bored, broad, brood, chord, coder, cords, cored, credo, crowd, decor, dobra, dobro, doers, dolor, donor, doors, doper, dorks, dorky, dorms, dormy, dorps, dorrs, dorsa, dorty, doser, doter, doura, dower, dowry, dozer, droid, droit, droll, drone, drool, droop, drops, dropt, dross, drouk, drove, drown, duroc, duros, erode, fiord, fjord, fordo, fords, frond, gored, gourd, grody, hoard, horde, hydro, lords, oared, odder, odors, odour, older, orbed, order, ordos, oread, pedro, pored, prods, proud, radio, radon, redon, redos, redox, resod, roads, robed, rodeo, rondo, roods, roped, rosed, round, roved, rowdy, rowed, sarod, scrod, sords, sudor, sword, tardo, trode, uredo, words, wordy, world. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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