How to use rod in a sentence. Add to word list a long, thin pole made of wood, metal, or other material A fishing / curtain rod (definition of rod from the cambridge academic content dictionary © cambridge university press) Definition of rod noun in oxford advanced learner's dictionary Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more. Rod synonyms, rod pronunciation, rod translation, english dictionary definition of rod
A thin straight piece or bar of material, such as metal or wood, often having a particular function or use, as See also fishing rod, lightning rod There are 32 meanings listed in oed's entry for the noun rod, two of which are labelled obsolete See ‘meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence. 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. A rod is a bar or a stick, like the curtain rods in your windows or the steel rods inside the structure of a building that help make it sturdy
A long straight stick, wand, or staff Rod (rod), n., v., rod•ded, rod•ding A stick, wand, staff, or the like, of wood, metal, or other material Botany a straight, slender shoot or stem of any woody plant, whether still growing or cut from the plant
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