rod

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Pronunciation 1.3 Noun 1.3.1 Synonyms 1.3.2 See also 1.3.3 Translations 1.4 Anagrams 2 Breton 2.1 Noun 3 Czech 3.1 Noun 3.1.1 Derived terms 4 Danish 4.1 Etymology 1 4.1.1 Pronunciation 4.1.2 Noun 4.1.3 Verb 4.2 Etymology 2 4.2.1 Pronunciation 4.2.2 Noun 4.2.2.1 Related terms 4.2.2.2 Inflection 5 Old English 5.1 Etymology 5.2 Pronunciation 5.3 Noun 5.3.1 Declension 5.3.1.1 Usage notes 5.3.2 Related terms 5.3.3 Descendants 6 Polish 6.1 Noun 6.1.1 Declension 7 Romanian 7.1 Etymology 7.2 Noun 8 Serbo-Croatian 8.1 Etymology 8.2 Noun 8.2.1 Declension 8.2.2 Derived terms

[edit] English

[edit] Etymology

Old English (Anglo-Saxon) rodd, Norse rudda

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• Rhymes: -ɒd

[edit] Noun

rod (plural rods)

1. A straight, round stick, shaft, bar, cane, or staff.

   The circus strong man proved his strength by bending an iron rod, and then straightening it.

2. (fishing) A long slender usually tapering pole used for angling; fishing rod.

   When I hooked a snake and not a fish, I got so scared I dropped my rod in the water.

3. A stick, pole, or bundle of switches or twigs (such as a birch), used for personal defense or to administer corporal punishment by whipping.
4. An 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.
   • The judge imposed on the thief a sentence of fifteen strokes with the rod.
5. A 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.
   • I notched a rod and used it to measure the length of rope to cut.
6. (archaic) A unit of length. Equal to a pole, a perch, ¼ chain, 5½ yards, 16½ feet, or exactly 5.0292 meters.

   1865 Henry David Thoreau, Cape Cod [1]

   • In one of the villages I saw the next summer a cow tethered by a rope six rods long [...]

7. An implement held vertically and viewed through an optical surveying instrument such as a transit, used to measure distance in land surveying and construction layout; an engineer's rod, surveyor's 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, 5½ yards.
8. (archaic) A unit of area equal to a square rod, 30¼ square yards or 1/160 acre.

   The house had a small yard of about six rods in size.

9. A straight bar that unites moving parts of a machine, for holding parts together as a connecting rod or for transferring power as a drive-shaft.

   The engine threw a rod, and then went to pieces before our eyes, springs and coils shooting in all directions.

10. (anatomy) Short for rod cell, a rod-shaped cell in the eye that is sensitive to light.

    The rods are more sensitive than the cones, but do not discern color.

11. (biology) Any of a number of long, slender microorganisms.

    He applied a gram positive stain, looking for rods indicative of Listeria.

12. (chemistry) A 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.
13. (slang) A pistol; a gun.
14. (slang) A penis; the male rod.
15. (slang) A 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.

[edit] Synonyms

• See also Wikisaurus:penis

[edit] See also

• crook
• divining rod, rod-shaped, rodman
• spare the rod, spoil the child

[edit] Translations

[edit] Anagrams

• Alphagram: dor , D. Or.
• dro
• ord
• RDO

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[edit] Breton

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rod

1. wheel

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[edit] Czech

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rod m.

1. family, stock, lineage
2. genus (botany)
3. gender (grammar)
4. voice (grammar)

[edit] Derived terms

• ženský rod m.
• mužský rod m.
• činný rod m.
• trpný rod m.

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[edit] Danish

[edit] Etymology 1

From the verb rode.

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /roːd/, [ʁoðˀ]

[edit] Noun

rod n. (singular definite rodet, not used in plural form)

1. disorder, mess, muddle

[edit] Verb

rod

1. Imperative of rode.

[edit] Etymology 2

From Old Norse rót.

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• IPA: /roːd/, [ʁoðˀ]

[edit] Noun

rod c. (singular definite roden, plural indefinite rødder)

1. root
2. yob

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• gulerod
• rodbehandling
• rodfrugt
• tandrod

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[edit] Old English

[edit] Etymology

Proto-Germanic *roda-. Cognate with Old Frisian rōd, Old Saxon rōda (Dutch roede ‘rod’), Old High German ruota (German Rute), Old Norse róða ‘rod, cross’ (Danish rode ‘gauge, rod’).

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /roːd/

[edit] Noun

rōd f.

1. cross (method of execution)
2. the Cross on which Jesus suffered
3. a measure of land length, equal to a perch
4. a measure of land area, equal to a quarter of an acre

[edit] Declension

	Singular	Plural
nominative	rōd	rōda, rōde
accusative	rōde	rōda, rōde
genitive	rōde	rōda
dative	rōde	rōdum

[edit] Usage notes

• An archaic locative singular form, ᚱᚩᛞᛁ, appears on the Ruthwell Cross inscription.

[edit] Related terms

• rōdfæstnian

[edit] Descendants

• English: rood

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[edit] Polish

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rod m.

1. rhodium (chemical element, Rh, atomic number 45)

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	Singular only
Nominative	rod
Genitive	rodu
Dative	rodowi
Accusative	rod
Instrumental	rodem
Locative	rodzie
Vocative	rodzie

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[edit] Romanian

[edit] Etymology

From a Slavonic language.

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rod f and m

1. fruit

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[edit] Serbo-Croatian

[edit] Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *rodъ.

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rȏd m. (Cyrillic spelling ро̑д)

1. gender
2. (botany) genus
3. relative, relation
4. fruit, crop, extraction (rarely used in these senses)
5. family, stock, lineage, kin

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[edit] Derived terms

• rȍdnī
• ròdovskī
• roðen born, native
• narod people