rod
杆件,拉杆,杆状物,杆子
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Definitions
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- : a stick, wand, staff, or the like, of wood, metal, or other material.
- : a straight, slender shoot or stem of any woody plant, whether still growing or cut from the plant.
- : fishing rod.
- : a straightedge moved along screeds to even the plaster between them.
- : a stick used for measuring.
- : Archaic. a unit of linear measure, 5.5 yards or 16.5 feet; linear perch or pole.
- : Archaic. a unit of square measure, 30.25 square yards; square perch or pole.
- : a stick, or a bundle of sticks or switches bound together, used as an instrument of punishment.
- : punishment or discipline: Not one to spare the rod, I sent him to bed without dinner.
- : a wand, staff, or scepter carried as a symbol of office, authority, power, etc.
- : authority, sway, or rule, especially when tyrannical.
- : lightning rod.
- : a slender bar or tube for draping towels over, suspending a shower curtain, etc.
- : Bible. a branch of a family; tribe.
- : a pattern, drawn on wood in full size, of one section of a piece of furniture.
- : Slang. a pistol or revolver.Vulgar.the penis.
- : Anatomy. one of the rodlike cells in the retina of the eye, sensitive to low intensities of light.Compare cone.
- : Bacteriology. a rod-shaped microorganism.
- : Also called leveling rod, stadia rod. Surveying. a light pole, conspicuously marked with graduations, held upright and read through a surveying instrument in leveling or stadia surveying.
- : Metallurgy. round metal stock for drawing and cutting into slender bars.
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rod·ded, rod·ding.
- : to furnish or equip with a rod or rods, especially lightning rods.
- : to even with a rod.
- : Metallurgy. to reinforce with metal rods.
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Examples
Adjust the resistance of these ankle weights by adding or removing the iron rods, which total between three to five pounds.
One of the darkest incidents of last year’s protests took place on July 21, when dozens of thugs armed with sticks and metal rods launched an indiscriminate attack on civilians at the suburban subway station of Yuen Long.
Since then, Shapery has cited his partnership with Doug Manchester, a political lightning rod and donor to the mayor, as a major obstacle.
The retina’s rod cells aren’t part of the cone coloring system.
They are so sensitive that a rod cell can detect a single photon of light — the smallest possible particle.
So I asked the driver to honk the horn, which he does, and Rod looks over.
And of course, Rod, being Rod, goes for it a hundred percent; his mouth drops open and he says, ‘What?’
Rod Stewart and Diane Sawyer This is just highly entertaining.
Creator Rod Serling was compelled by the need “not to just entertain but to enlighten.”
The painting is of a human heart set inside a wind-up music box that has a metal rod poking out of the pulmonary artery.
And there shall come forth a rod out of the root of Jesse, and a flower shall rise up out of his root.
A connecting rod worked a balance-beam, which worked the air-pump, feed-pump, and plug-rod for moving the valves.
A piece of iron sticking out from the cross-head carried the plug-rod for working the gear-handles.
Thereafter we were buffeted like chips in the swirling maw of a whirlpool; we fought our way rod by rod.
This is a minute, slender rod, which lies within and between the pus-corpuscles (Fig. 125), and is negative to Gram's stain.