Substantiv
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A straight, round stick, shaft, bar, cane, or staff.
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A long slender usually tapering pole used for angling; fishing rod.
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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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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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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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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 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.
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A unit of area equal to a square rod, 30¼ square yards or 1/160 acre.
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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.
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Short for rod cell, a rod-shaped cell in the eye that is sensitive to light.
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Any of a number of long, slender microorganisms.
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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.
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A pistol; a gun.
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A penis; the male rod.
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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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Rod-shaped objects which appear in photographs and videos traveling at high speed, not seen by the person recording the event, often associated with extraterrestrial entities.
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A Cuisenarie rod.
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