rod

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[edit] English

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[edit] Etymology

Old English *rodd or *rodde (attested in dative plural roddum), of uncertain origin.

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[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 [...]
    • 1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, The House Behind the Cedars, Chapter I,
      A few rods farther led him past the old black Presbyterian church, with its square tower, embowered in a stately grove; past the Catholic church, with its many crosses, and a painted wooden figure of St. James in a recess beneath the gable; and past the old Jefferson House, once the leading hotel of the town, in front of which political meetings had been held, and political speeches made, and political hard cider drunk, in the days of "Tippecanoe and Tyler too."
  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.

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Terms derived from rod

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[edit] Translations

straight round stick, shaft, or bar
fishing rod or pole
stick or bundle used for punishment
stick to measure length
archaic: unit of length
archaic: unit of area
connector, part of a machine
part of the retina of the eye
microbiology: rod shaped microorganism
stirring rod
slang: pistol — see pistol
slang: penis
hot rod — see hot rod
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[edit] Breton

[edit] Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *roto- (“wheel, chariot”) (compare Welsh rhod, Old Irish roth), from Proto-Indo-European *Hroth₂-o-.

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  • IPA: /ˈroːt/

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rod f. (plural rodoù)

  1. wheel

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rod m.

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

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[edit] Danish

[edit] Etymology 1

From the verb rode.

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  • IPA: /roːd/, [ʁoðˀ]

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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]

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

  1. root
  2. yob
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[edit] Inflection
    Inflection of rod
common gender Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative, dative and accusative rod roden rødder rødderne
genitive rods rodens rødders røddernes

[edit] Low German

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  • IPA: /ˈɾɔu̯t/

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rod

  1. red

[edit] Old English

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Proto-Germanic *rōdō. 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’).

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rōd f.

  1. cross (method of execution)
  2. a measure of land length, equal to a perch
  3. a measure of land area, equal to a quarter of an acre

[edit] Declension

    Declension of rod (strong ō-stem)
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.

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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

[edit] Romanian

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From a Slavic 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

[edit] Declension

    declension of rod
singular plural
nominative rȏd ròdovi
genitive rȍda rodova
dative rodu rodovima
accusative rod rodove
vocative rode rodovi
locative rodu rodovima
instrumental rodom rodovima

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