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rod. noun. ˈräd. Synonyms of rod. 1. a (1) : a straight slender stick growing on or cut from a tree or bush. (2) : osier. (3) : a stick or bundle of twigs used to punish. also : punishment. (4) : a shepherd's cudgel. (5) : a pole with a line and usually a reel attached for fishing. b (1) : a slender bar (as of wood or metal) (2)
ROD definition: 1. a long, thin pole made of wood or metal: 2. a type of cell in the retina (= part at the back of…. Learn more.
noun. a stick, wand, staff, or the like, of wood, metal, or other material. a straight, slender shoot or stem of any woody plant, whether still growing or cut from the plant. fishing rod. (in plastering or mortaring) a straightedge moved along screeds to even the plaster between them. a stick used for measuring.
a long, thin pole made of wood or metal: He was given a fishing rod for his birthday. The concrete is strengthened with steel rods. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Poles, rods, shafts and sticks. bargepole. baton. billy club. boathook. bollard. cane. lathi-charge. litter grabber. litter picker. maypole. pointer. shaft. stake. tent pole
A rod is a bar or a stick, like the curtain rods in your windows or the steel rods inside the structure of a building that help make it sturdy. A rod can be a staff, like a walking stick, or a metal bar used in construction projects.
A thin straight piece or bar of material, such as metal or wood, often having a particular function or use, as: a. A fishing rod. b. A piston rod. c. An often expandable horizontal bar, especially of metal, used to suspend household items such as curtains or towels. d. A leveling rod.
the light-sensitive membrane forming the inner lining of the posterior wall of the eyeball, composed largely of a specialized terminal expansion of the optic nerve. Images focused here by the lens of the eye are transmitted to the brain as nerve impulses. retina rod blind spot.
A straight, slender shoot or stem cut from, or still part of, a bush or tree. Any straight, or almost straight, stick, shaft, bar, staff, etc., of wood, metal, or other material. Curtain rods, a lightning rod. An offshoot or branch of a family or tribe; stock or race.
punishment or discipline: Not one to spare the rod, I sent him to bed without dinner. a wand, staff, or scepter carried as a symbol of office, authority, power, etc. authority, sway, or rule, especially when tyrannical.
ROD definition: a thin, straight pole: . Learn more.
