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Definitions for Rod

[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: Not one to spare the rod, I sent him to bed without dinner.
[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] to furnish or equip with a rod or rods, especially lightning rods.
[22] to even (plaster or mortar) with a rod.
[23] Metallurgy . to reinforce (the core of a mold) with metal rods.
[24] a male given name, form of Roderick or Rodney.
[25] a slim cylinder of metal, wood, etc; stick or shaft
[26] a switch or bundle of switches used to administer corporal punishment
[27] any of various staffs of insignia or office
[28] power, esp of a tyrannical kind a dictator's iron rod
[29] a straight slender shoot, stem, or cane of a woody plant
[30] See fishing rod
[31] Also called: pole , perch a unit of length equal to 5 1 /2 yards a unit of square measure equal to 30 1 /4 square yards
[32] a straight narrow board marked with the dimensions of a piece of joinery, as the spacing of steps on a staircase
[33] a metal shaft that transmits power in axial reciprocating motion piston rod, con(necting) rod Compare shaft (def. 5)
[34] surveying another name (esp US) for staff 1 (def. 8)
[35] Also called: retinal rod any of the elongated cylindrical cells in the retina of the eye, containing the visual purple (rhodopsin), which are sensitive to dim light but not to colour Compare cone (def. 5)
[36] any rod-shaped bacterium
[37] a slang word for penis
[38] US slang name for pistol (def. 1)
[39] short for hot rod

Words related to Rod

shaft, cylinder, cane, ingot, pin, baton, stick, slab, scepter, wand, billet, stave, mace, strip, switch, dowel, spike, staff, sceptre, birch

Words nearby Rod

rocky mountain states, rocky mountain whitefish, rocky mountains, rocky river, rococo, rod, rod bolt, rod cell, rod granule, rod mill, rodchenko

Origin of Rod

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

Other words from Rod

rod·less , adjective
rod·like , adjective

Word origin for Rod

Old English rodd ; related to Old Norse rudda club, Norwegian rudda, rydda twig

Synonyms for Rod

baton, cane, cylinder, ingot, pin, shaft, slab, stick, billet, birch, dowel, mace, scepter, sceptre, spike, staff, stave, strip, switch, wand, rodule