Rod

English

Etymology

From Template:Inh, from Template:Inh or Template:M (attested in dative plural Template:M), of Template:Unc origin, but probably from Template:Inh, from Template:Der. Compare Template:Cog. For the root, compare Template:Cog. Presumably unrelated to Template:Noncog.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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

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2. A longitudinal pole used for forming part of a framework such as an awning or tent.
3. Template:Lb A long slender usually tapering pole used for angling; fishing rod.

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4. A stick, pole, or bundle of switches or twigs (such as a birch), used for personal defense or to administer corporal punishment by whipping.
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5. 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.

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6. 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.

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7. Template:Senseid Template:Lb A unit of length equal to 1 pole, a perch, Template:Frac chain, Template:Frac yards, Template:Frac feet, or exactly 5.0292 meters (these being all equivalent).
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8. 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, surveying rod, leveling rod, ranging rod. The modern Template:Lb 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, Template:Frac yards.
9. Template:Lb A unit of area equal to a square rod, Template:Frac square yards or Template:Frac acre.

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10. A straight bar that unites moving parts of a machine, for holding parts together as a connecting rod or for transferring power as a driveshaft.

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11. Template:Lb A rod cell: a rod-shaped cell in the eye that is sensitive to light.

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12. Template:Lb Any of a number of long, slender microorganisms.

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13. Template:Lb A stirring rod: a glass rod, typically about 6 inches to 1 foot long and Template:Frac to Template:Frac inch in diameter that can be used to stir liquids in flasks or beakers.
14. Template:Lb A pistol; a gun.
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15. Template:Lb The penis.
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16. Template:Lb 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.
17. Template:Lb A rod-shaped object that appears in photographs or videos traveling at high speed, not seen by the person recording the event, often associated with extraterrestrial entities.

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19. Template:Lb A Template:W or connecting rod, which links the driving wheels of a steam locomotive, and some diesel shunters and early electric locomotives.
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Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:stick
• See also Thesaurus:penis

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See also

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Further reading

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Verb

1. Template:Lb To reinforce concrete with metal rods.
2. Template:Lb To furnish with rods, especially lightning rods.
3. Template:Lb To penetrate sexually.
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4. Template:Lb To hot rod.
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Anagrams

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Breton

Etymology

From Template:Inh, from Template:Inh, from Template:Inh.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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Czech

Etymology

Template:Inh+, from Template:Inh. Template:Surf.

Pronunciation

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Noun

1. family, stock, lineage
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3. Template:Lb gender
4. Template:Lb voice

Further reading

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Danish

Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

From Template:Inh, from Template:Inh, from Template:Inh. Template:Cog is borrowed from Old Norse.

Noun

1. root
2. yob
3. Template:Lb root, zero (element $x$ in the domain of a function such that $f(x)=0$)

Synonyms

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Related terms

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Etymology 2

From the verb Template:M.

Noun

1. disorder, mess, muddle

Etymology 3

Verb

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East Franconian

Alternative forms

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Adjective

1. red

German Low German

Alternative forms

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Etymology

From Template:Inh, from Template:Inh, from Template:Inh, from Template:Inh < Template:M. Compare Template:Cog, Template:Cog, Template:Cog, Template:Cog, Template:Cog.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

1. Template:Lb red

Hunsrik

Alternative forms

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Etymology

From Template:Inh, from Template:Inh, from Template:Inh, from Template:Inh, from Template:Inh, from Template:M.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

1. red

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Derived terms

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Further reading

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Latvian

Verb

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Lower Sorbian

Etymology

From Template:Inh, from Template:Inh, from Template:Inh.

Pronunciation

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Noun

1. sex Template:Gloss
2. lineage, family
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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Template:Inh.

Pronunciation

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Noun

1. fish skin

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Etymology 2

From Template:Inh, from Template:Inh.

Pronunciation

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Noun

1. praise, fame, honour Template:Q

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Old English

Etymology

From Template:Inh. Cognate with Template:Cog, Template:Cog, Template:Cog, Template:Cog (Template:Cog), Template:Cog (Template:Cog).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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

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Descendants

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Old Saxon

Etymology

From Template:Inh, from Template:Inh, whence also Template:Cog, Template:Cog, Template:Cog, Template:Cog, Template:Cog. Ultimately from Template:Inh < Template:M.

Adjective

1. red

Descendants

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Polish

Etymology

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Noun

1. rhodium Template:Gl

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Romanian

Etymology 1

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Noun

1. fruit
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Synonyms

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Etymology 2

Verb

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

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Pronunciation

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Noun

1. gender
2. Template:Lb genus
3. relative, relation
4. fruit, crop, extraction Template:Qualifier
5. family, stock, lineage, kin, race
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Veps

Etymology 1

From Template:Der.

Noun

1. fishbone

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Template:Bor.

Noun

1. kind, race, breed

Welsh

Pronunciation

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Noun

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