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Meaning rod meaning

What does rod mean?
Definitions in simple English

rod

A rod is a long, thin round thing, usually made of metal. They put rods on the window to keep people out.

rod

any rod-shaped bacterium a long thin implement made of metal or wood a visual receptor cell that is sensitive to dim light (= gat) a gangster's pistol (= perch) a linear measure of 16.5 feet a square rod of land

Synonyms rod synonyms

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Topics rod topics

What do people use rod to talk about?
  • What instruments are used to measure an area?
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  • What do people use to protect themselves from lightning?

Examples rod examples

How do I use rod in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Tom made a rod for his back.
Rod lives across the street from John.
Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me.
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.
He knows how to fish with a fishing rod.
The dowser used a dowsing rod to search for water.
I bought a new fishing rod.
Spare the rod and spoil the child.
There's a new long fishing rod in the shop.
He has a nice rod.
The parts are connected by an iron rod.
This building has a lightning rod.
In 2015, Novak Djokovic of Serbia became the third man in the Open Era of tennis (starting in 1968), after Rod Laver and Roger Federer, to reach all four Grand Slam finals in a single year.

Movie subtitles

But Helius is convinced that we'll find water with the divining rod!
He's taken the divining rod with him!
It's as if the rod is pulling him forward!
I guess you're good with a rod too, huh?
You and that rod of yours.
The first thing you know, you'll be arrested for firing a rod in the city limits.
A rod.
Memories of Rod and Lines?
My wife rules me with a rod of iron.
I'm too old, too tired and too hungry to go chasing some hot rod.
Here's a rod.
Thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me.
Nothing. You just lost a rod and reel.
Then there's the rod and reel.
I guess you're good with a rod too?
Now I'll take this rod to you. until there's not an inch of hide left on your dirty carcass.
I've told him fish stories that would curl your hair. and I've never even had a rod in my hand.
It's the natural spring of the rod, sir.
A new rod.
I haven't seen you this worried since I stole your favorite fishing rod.
We searched him before we brought him in just this rod and junk.
Lay off that stuff, Rod.
But Galubert is dead. Time to buy a fishing rod!
Give me that rod.
What do you expect me to bring, a fishing rod?
Personally, I'd feel more comfortable if I had a rod.
You just lost a rod and reel.
A dame with a rod is like a guy with a knitting needle.
With his fishing rod?
And Vilma Banky and Rod La Rocque.
It's something to do with the tappet rod.
So that rod, connected to the gearshift lever on the steering post, comes down here and is coupled to the bell crank here by a cotter pin.

News and current affairs

Some analysts argue that military power is of such restricted utility that it is no longer the ultimate measuring rod.
NAFTA became a lightning rod for complaints about globalization, capitalism, and the decline of organized labor.
After going to the cinema, she and her boyfriend were beaten, before she was brutally assaulted and attacked with an iron rod for more than an hour.
Because the biggest share of the US trade gap is with China, a country vilified as a currency-manipulating cheater, the bilateral trade deficit has become the lightening rod for China bashers.
Her internal injuries from the iron rod that her attackers used were so severe that doctors had to remove her intestines in their effort to save her life.
Ahn has already become a lightning rod for all of the country's anti-Park and anti-President Lee Myun-bak forces, attracting young people as well.
Certainly, few observers looking in 1978 at the smoldering embers of the Cultural Revolution, or at the seeming ruination of the post-1989 years, thought China would emerge as the lightning rod of the world's developmental hopes.