Definitions for Rod

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Rod rod

Spelling: [rod]

IPA: /rɒd/

Rod is a 3 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 4 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 4 points.

You can make 15 anagrams from letters in Rod (dor).

Definitions for Rod

noun

1. a stick, wand, staff, or the like, of wood, metal, or other material.
2. a straight, slender shoot or stem of any woody plant, whether still growing or cut from the plant.
3. fishing rod.
4. (in plastering or mortaring) a straightedge moved along screeds to even the plaster between them.
5. a stick used for measuring.
6. Archaic. a unit of linear measure, 5.5 yards or 16.5 feet (5.029 meters); linear perch or pole.
7. Archaic. a unit of square measure, 30.25 square yards (25.29 sq. m); square perch or pole.
8. a stick, or a bundle of sticks or switches bound together, used as an instrument of punishment.
9. punishment or discipline:
10. a wand, staff, or scepter carried as a symbol of office, authority, power, etc.
11. authority, sway, or rule, especially when tyrannical.
12. lightning rod.
13. a slender bar or tube for draping towels over, suspending a shower curtain, etc.
14. Bible. a branch of a family; tribe.
15. a pattern, drawn on wood in full size, of one section of a piece of furniture.
16. Slang. a pistol or revolver. Vulgar. the penis.
17. Anatomy. one of the rodlike cells in the retina of the eye, sensitive to low intensities of light. Compare cone (def 5).
18. Bacteriology. a rod-shaped microorganism.
19. Also called leveling rod, stadia rod. Surveying. a light pole, conspicuously marked with graduations, held upright and read through a surveying instrument in leveling or stadia surveying.
20. Metallurgy. round metal stock for drawing and cutting into slender bars.
21. a male given name, form of Roderick or Rodney.

verb (used with object)

1. to furnish or equip with a rod or rods, especially lightning rods.
2. to even (plaster or mortar) with a rod.
3. Metallurgy. to reinforce (the core of a mold) with metal rods.

Origin of Rod

before 1150; Middle English rodd, late Old English; akin to Old Norse rudda club

Examples for Rod

Creator rod Serling was compelled by the need “not to just entertain but to enlighten.”

What can you think of it, that such a family as ours, should have such a rod held over it?

The moral inculcated by it is, "Spare the rod and spoil the child."

I'm fit to melt—there is no strength left in me; here, come and take the rod!'

I promise you I will,' said the dowager—'here, take the rod!'

rod Stewart and Diane Sawyer This is just highly entertaining.

Many a rod, I grieve to say, was worn to the stump on that unlucky night.

rod Blagojevich auctioning off the seat to the highest bidder.

And of course, rod, being rod, goes for it a hundred percent; his mouth drops open and he says, ‘What?’

So I asked the driver to honk the horn, which he does, and rod looks over.