All Definitions for Rod
Below are all the dictionary definitions of rod:
1A straight, round stick, shaft, bar, cane, or staff.
2A longitudinal pole used for forming part of a framework such as an awning or tent.
3A long slender usually tapering pole used for angling
4Fishing rod.
5A stick, pole, or bundle of switches or twigs (such as a birch), used for personal defense or to administer corporal punishment by whipping.
6An implement resembling and/or supplanting a rod (particularly a cane) that is used for corporal punishment, and metonymically called the rod, regardless of its actual shape and composition.
7A stick used to measure distance, by using its established length or task-specific temporary marks along its length, or by dint of specific graduated marks.
8An implement held vertically and viewed through an optical surveying instrument such as a transit, used to measure distance in land surveying and construction layout
9An engineer's rod, surveyor's rod, surveying rod, leveling rod, ranging rod. The modern (US) engineer's or surveyor's rod commonly is eight or ten feet long and often designed to extend higher. In former times a surveyor's rod often was a single wooden pole or composed of multiple sectioned and socketed pieces, and besides serving as a sighting target was used to measure distance on the ground horizontally, hence for convenience was of one rod or pole in length, that is, 5+¹⁄₂ yards.
10A straight bar that unites moving parts of a machine, for holding parts together as a connecting rod or for transferring power as a driveshaft.
11A rod cell: a rod-shaped cell in the eye that is sensitive to light.
12Any of a number of long, slender microorganisms.
13A stirring rod: a glass rod, typically about 6 inches to 1 foot long and ¹⁄₈ to ¹⁄₄ inch in diameter that can be used to stir liquids in flasks or beakers.
14A pistol
15A gun.
16The penis.
17A hot rod, an automobile or other passenger motor vehicle modified to run faster and often with exterior cosmetic alterations, especially one based originally on a pre-1940s model or (currently) denoting any older vehicle thus modified.
18A rod-shaped object that appears in photographs or videos traveling at high speed, not seen by the person recording the event, often associated with extraterrestrial entities.
19A Cuisenaire rod.
20A coupling rod or connecting rod, which links the driving wheels of a steam locomotive, and some diesel shunters and early electric locomotives.
21A drain rod, being a set of segmented rods with interlocking connectors designed to remain attached even under rotation in use.
22To reinforce concrete with metal rods.
23To furnish with rods, especially lightning rods.
24To penetrate sexually.
25To hot rod.
26A unit of length equal to 1 pole, a perch, ¹⁄₄ chain, 5+¹⁄₂ yards, 16+¹⁄₂ feet, or exactly 5.0292 meters (these being all equivalent).
27A unit of area equal to a square rod, 30+¹⁄₄ square yards or ¹⁄₁₆₀ acre.
28A nickname for the male given names Rodney and Roderick.
29The god of the family, ancestors and fate in Slavic mythology.
30Abbreviation of run-out date (“date on which one completes one's national service”).
About antonyms for rod
Finding the right antonym for rod helps writers create contrast, clarify meaning, and add depth to their work. Defined as "A straight, round stick, shaft, bar, cane, or staff.", rod has 0 opposite words that can be used to express contrasting ideas.
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