Rod Definition–noun | 1. | a stick, wand, staff, or the like, of wood, metal, or other material. | | 2. | a straight, slender shoot or stem of any woody plant, whether still growing or cut from the plant. | | 4. | (in plastering or mortaring) a straightedge moved along screeds to even the plaster between them. | | 5. | a stick used for measuring. | | 6. | a unit of linear measure, 5 1/2 yards or 16 1/2 feet (5.029 m); linear perch or pole. | | 7. | a unit of square measure, 30 1/4 square yards (25.29 sq. m); square perch or pole. | | 8. | a stick, or a bundle of sticks or switches bound together, used as an instrument of punishment. | | 9. | punishment or discipline: Not one to spare the rod, I sent him to bed without dinner. | | 10. | a wand, staff, or scepter carried as a symbol of office, authority, power, etc. | | 11. | authority, sway, or rule, esp. when tyrannical. | | 13. | a slender bar or tube for draping towels over, suspending a shower curtain, etc. | | 14. | Bible. a branch of a family; tribe. |
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| 15. | a pattern, drawn on wood in full size, of one section of a piece of furniture. | | 17. | Anatomy. one of the rodlike cells in the retina of the eye, sensitive to low intensities of light. Compare cone (def. 5). | | 18. | Bacteriology. a rod-shaped microorganism. | | 19. | 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. | | 20. | Metallurgy. round metal stock for drawing and cutting into slender bars. | –verb (used with object) | 21. | to furnish or equip with a rod or rods, esp. lightning rods. | | 22. | to even (plaster or mortar) with a rod. | | 23. | Metallurgy. to reinforce (the core of a mold) with metal rods. | |
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Stewart Definition–noun | 3. | James Maitland (Jimmy ), 1908–97, U.S. actor. | | 4. | Potter, 1915–85, U.S. jurist: associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1958–81. | | 5. | a river in central Yukon Territory, Canada, flowing from the Mackenzie Mountains W to the Yukon River. 331 mi. (533 km) long. | |
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