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Rod

Definition: Rod

Rod

Noun

1. (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)

 

Specialty Definition: Rod

DomainDefinition

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)

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

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Specialty Definition: Fishing rod

(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."

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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."

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: 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.
EntrySourceExpressionField

ROD

EnglishRefused on deliveryBusiness

ROD

ItalianRaggruppamenti omogenei per diagnosiMedicine

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Synonyms: Rod

Synonyms: gat (n), perch (n), pole (n), retinal rod (n), rod cell (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Rod

ContextSynonyms 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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Crosswords: Rod

English words defined with "rod": Black RodConnecting rod, control rodDivining rod, dowsing rodEccentric rodfishing rod, Fit rod, fly rodGauge rod, Gauging rodLifting rod, lightning rodParallel rod, Piston rod, Plug rod, Pump rodSide rod, Sounding rod, spinning rod, Stair rod, Stay rod, Sucker rodTension rod, Thunder rod, Truss rodWire rod. (references)
Specialty definitions using "rod": absorber rod worth, articulated rodbore rodcharging rod, control rod follower, control rod shadowing, control rod worth, curtain rodearth rodfollower rod, foot rod, forked rodground rodhand and rod puppet, hinge rodKiss the Rodlengthening rod, leveling rod, link rodmain rod, Moses' RodNew York rod, nonmagnetic rodPhiladelphia rod, plastic tamping rod, pneumatic rod puller, puller rod, push rodrod bit, rod cover, rod dope, rod end, Rod in Pickle, rod mill, Rod Outer Segments, rod proof, rod pull, rod puller, rod reaming shell, rod reducing bushing, rod reducing coupling, rod restraint, rod sag, rod stock, ROD TAPE OPERATOR, ROD TRANSFER DEVICEseismograph rod, Spare the Rod and Spoil the Child, stadia rod, stemming rod, stopper rod, stopper rod assembly, stuck rod worthtamping rod, telemeter rod, top rod, torsion rod springunlockable rodWELT ROD, wire-line drill rod. (references)
Etymologies containing "rod": Wale. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Rod" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Czech (ancestry, clan, gender, generation, genus, kin, parentage, species, stock, tribe), Danish (chaos, confusion, disorder, root, tangle), Romanian (bearing, fruit, harvest, outgrowth, result), Serbo-Croatian (crop, gender, genus, harvest, kind, kindred, lineage, sex, yield).

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Modern Usage: Rod

DomainUsage

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)

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

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Commercial Usage: Rod

DomainTitle

References

  • Lightning Rod Software, Inc.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  • The 2000 Import and Export Market for Iron and Steel Wire Rod in Africa (reference)

  • The 2002 World Forecasts of Iron and Steel Wire Rod Export Supplies (reference)

  • The 2003 World Forecasts of Iron and Steel Wire Rod Export Supplies (reference)

    (more reference examples)

  

Books

  • Advanced Custom Rod Building (reference)

  • The Sporting Road: Travels Across America in an Airstream Trailer, With Fly Rod, Shotgun, and a Yellow Lab Named Sweetzer (reference)

  • The Rod of an Almond Tree in God's Master Plan (reference)

  • Rod MacHado's Instrument Pilot's Survival Manual: Serious Book Written in a Fun Refreshing Style (reference)

  • Rod MacHado's Private Pilot Handbook: The Ultimate Private Pilot Book (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

  

Theater & Movies

  • Rod Serling: Submitted For Your Approval (reference)

  • Great Racing Movies (The Fast and the Furious-1954/The Big Wheel/Hot Rod Girl) (reference)

  • Hot Rod Girl (reference)

  • Great Racing Movies (The Fast and the Furious-1954/The Big Wheel/Hot Rod Girl) - EP Mode (reference)

  • Hot Rod Magazine's Top 10 (reference)

    (more DVD examples; more video examples)

  

Music

  

High Tech

  

Consumer Goods

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

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Image Slideshow: Rod

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Photo Album: Rod

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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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Digital Photo Gallery: Rod
 

"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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Sounds Captioned with "Rod".

PlayCaption
Starting up hot rod.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Familiar Quotations: Rod

AuthorQuotation

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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Use in Literature: Rod

TitleAuthorQuote

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Rod

SubjectTopicQuote

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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Spoken Usage: Rod

SpeakerPhrase(s)

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.

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Usage Frequency: Rod

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)65.95%7938,741
Noun (proper)32.23%38814,252
Lexical Verb (base form)1.33%1687,710
Lexical Verb (infinitive)0.42%5157,705
Noun (common)0.08%1339,140
                    Total100.00%1,203N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Name Usage Frequency: Rod

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.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
RodFirst name Male13,000599
RodLast name30026,120
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Derived & Related Names: Rod

"Rod" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "famous power".
 
The following table summarizes names related to "Rod."
NameGenderLanguageRelated Name
RodMaleEnglishRoderick
RoddyMaleEnglishRoderick
RodericMaleEnglishRoderick
RoderickMaleEnglishN/A
RodrigueMaleFrenchRoderick
RodrigoMaleItalianRoderick
RurikMaleRussianRoderick
RodinaFemaleScottishRoderick
RodrigoMaleSpanishRoderick
RhydderchMaleWelshRoderick
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage in Company Names: Rod

CountryName
USA

Lightning Rod Software, Inc.

 (more examples...)

Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.

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Expressions: Rod

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.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Rod

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
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.

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Modern Translation: Rod

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), (pole, violin neck), (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.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Rod

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Greek700 BCE-300 CE

rhabdos. (various references)

Latin500 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 French900-1400

guaroc. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Bible Trace: Rod

LanguageDateSourceProverbs Chapter 23, Verse 14
Greek (transliterated)250 BCSeptuagintSu men gar pataxeiV auton rabdw thn de yuchn autou ek qanatou rush
Latin405VulgateTu virga percuties eum et animam eius de inferno liberabis
Middle English1395WyclifThou with a yerde shalt smite hym, and the soule of hym fro helle thou shalt deliueren.
Jacobean English1611King JamesThou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell.
Victorian English1833WebsterThou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell.
Basic English1964OgdenGive him blows with the rod, and keep his soul safe from the underworld.

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

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Matched Bible Translations: Rod

LanguageProverbs Chapter 23, Verse 14
CebuanoImong 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 。
Croatianbiješ ga šibom, ali mu dušu iz Podzemlja izbavljaš.
Danishdu slår ham vel med Riset, men redder hans Liv fra Dødsriget.
DutchGij zult hem met de roede slaan, en zijn ziel van de hel redden.
FinnishVitsalla sinä häntä lyöt, tuonelasta hänen sielunsa pelastat.
FrenchEn le frappant de la verge, Tu délivres son âme du séjour des morts.
GermanDu haust ihn mit der Rute; aber du errettest seine Seele vom Tode.
Haitian CreoleOkontrè, si ou bat li, w'a sove nanm li pou l' pa mouri.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-harimalah akan selamat.
Indonesian-Terjemahan Lamamelainkan apabila engkau memukul akan dia, barangkali engkau melepaskan nyawanya dari pada neraka.
Italiananzi, se lo batti con la verga, lo salverai dagli inferi.
Korean그 를 채 찍 으 로 때 리 면 그 영 혼 을 음 부 에 서 구 원 하 리 라
MaoriTatatia ia e koe ki te rakau, a ka whakaorangia e koe tona wairua i te reinga.
NorwegianDu slår ham med riset, men du frelser hans sjel fra dødsriket.
PortugueseTu a fustigarás com a vara e livrarás a sua alma do Seol.   
RumanianLovindu -l cu nuiaua, ki scoyi sufletul din locuinya moryilor.
RussianФЩ ОБЛБЦЕЫШ ЕЗП ТПЪЗПА Й УРБУЕЫШ ДХЫХ ЕЗП ПФ РТЕЙУРПДОЕК.
SpanishTú lo castigarás con vara y librarás su alma del Seol.
Swedishja, om du slår honom med riset, så räddar du hans själ undan dödsriket.

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

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Derivations & Misspellings: Rod

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)


Misspellings

"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).

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Rhyming with "Rod"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "rod" (pronounced rÄ"d)
3r Ä" dprod, scrod, trod.
2-Ä" dBallade, cod, esplanade, facade, God, nod, odd, plod, pod, quad, roughshod, shod, sod, squad, Tod, wad.

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

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Anagrams: Rod

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.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Images: Digital Art
9. Sounds
10. Quotations: Familiar
11. Quotations: Fiction
12. Quotations: Non-fiction
13. Quotations: Spoken
14. Usage Frequency
15. Names: Frequency
16. Names: Derived from
17. Names: Company Usage
18. Expressions
19. Expressions: Internet
20. Translations: Modern
21. Translations: Ancient
22. Bible Trace
23. Abbreviations
24. Acronyms
25. Derivations
26. Rhymes
27. Anagrams
28. Bibliography


  

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