Word Finder - rods

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A straight, round stick, shaft, bar, cane, or staff.

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A longitudinal pole used for forming part of a framework such as an awning or tent.

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A long slender usually tapering pole used for angling; fishing rod.

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When I hooked a snake and not a fish, I got so scared I dropped my rod in the water.

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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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The judge imposed on the thief a sentence of fifteen strokes with the rod.

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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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I notched a rod and used it to measure the length of rope to cut.

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A unit of length equal to 1 pole, a perch, 1/4 chain, 5 1/2 yards, 16 1/2 feet, or exactly 5.0292 meters (these being all equivalent).

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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, surveying 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, 5 1/2 yards.

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A unit of area equal to a square rod, 30 1/4 square yards or 1/160 acre.

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The house had a small yard of about six rods in size.

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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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The engine threw a rod, and then went to pieces before our eyes, springs and coils shooting in all directions.

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A rod cell: a rod-shaped cell in the eye that is sensitive to light.

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The rods are more sensitive than the cones, but do not discern color.

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Any of a number of long, slender microorganisms.

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He applied a gram positive stain, looking for rods indicative of Listeria.

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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.

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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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A rod-shaped object that appears in photographs or videos traveling at high speed, not seen by the person recording the event, often associated with extraterrestrial entities.

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A Cuisenaire rod.

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A coupling rod or connecting rod, which links the driving wheels of a steam locomotive.

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To reinforce concrete with metal rods.

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To furnish with rods, especially lightning rods.

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To penetrate sexually.

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To hot rod.

In the red variety of Cucurbita pepo these crystals may consist of rods, thin plates, flat ribbons or spirals.

For experiments with long thin rods or wires it has an advantage over the other arrangements in that the position of the poles need not be known with great accuracy, a small upward or downward displacement having little effect upon the magnetometer deflection.

A man-engine consists of two heavy wooden rods (like the rods of a Cornish pumping plant), placed parallel and close to each other in a special shaft compartment, and suspended at the surface from a pair of massive walking beams (or " bobs ").

The rood varies locally but is generally taken as = 40 square rods,.

If, however, the permeability of the test rod differs from that of the standard, the number of lines of induction flowing in opposite directions through the two rods will differ, and the excess will flow from one yoke to the other, partly through the air, and partly along the path provided by the bent bars, deflecting the compass needle.

By the short-rod system, short instead of long rods are retained; they are dealt with in a similar manner.

A thin carbon pencil, forming a bridge between two stout carbon rods, is set in the midst of the mixture to be heated.

Later in that year they patented a process for the reduction of aluminium by carbon, and in 1886 an electric furnace with sliding carbon rods passed through the end walls to the centre of a rectangular furnace.

The current, either continuous or alternating, is then started, and continued for about 1 to 12 hours, until the operation is complete, the carbon rods being gradually withdrawn as the action proceeds.

Most of the earlier astronomical work was done in a darkened room, but here we first find the dark chamber constructed of wooden rods covered with cloth or paper, and used separately to screen the observing-tablet.

This ring is necessary in order to allow the rods to follow the micrometer heads when the position angle is changed.

Complete rotation of the head is obviously impossible because of the interference of the declination axis with the rods, and therefore, in some angles, objects cannot be measured in two positions of the circle.

The screw, turned by the wheels at g', acts in a toothed arc, whence, as shown in the figure, equal and opposite motion is communicated to the slides by the jointed rods v, v.

This ring is provided with a clamping screw, which, through the intervention of bevel-gear and rods, is operated by means of the hand-wheel 78.

With similar bevel-gear and rods the tangent screw is connected to the hand-wheel, 79, by which the observer communicates the fourth or slowest motion in position angle.

The tubbing, which is considerably less in diameter than the borehole, is suspended by rods from the surface until a bed suitable for a foundation is reached, upon which a sliding length of tube, known as the moss box, bearing a shoulder, which is filled with dried moss, is placed.

The pumps, placed close to the point where the water accumulates, may be worked by an engine on the surface by means of heavy reciprocating rods which pass down the shaft, or by underground motors driven by steam, compressed air or electricity.

Thus they have secretly stolen our three rods that they may go unpunished, and have entrenched themselves safely behind these three walls in order to carry on all the rascality and wickedness that we now see."

In the Arctic and Pacific coast provinces, about Lake Superior, in Virginia and North Carolina, as well as in ruder parts of Mexico and South America, metals were cold-hammered into plates, weapons, rods and wire, ground and polished, fashioned into carved blocks of hard, tenacious stone by pressure or blow, overlaid, cold-welded and plated.

In the manufacture of these the substances were reduced to the form of slender filaments, shreds, rods, splints, yarn, twine and sennit or braid.

To ensure the sights on each side reading together they are connected by rods.

A level platform is hung from the chains by suspension rods.

Cast steel clamps hold the cable together, and to these the suspending rods are attached.

The suspending rods and cross bracing are very light.

Minute rods or needles of rutile are also common in slates, and well-formed cubes of pyrites are often visible on the splitting faces.

It is used in the manufacture of carbon rods for arc lights, and for the negative element in the Bunsen battery.

The average of several cubit rods remaining is 20.65, age in general about 2500 B.C. (33).

The more so as the half of this foot, or 8 digits, is marked off as a measure on the Egyptian cubit rods (33).

In two families motile articulated rods occur; in Triarthridae they probably simply expand the dimensions of the body in adaptation to life at the surface; or as a protection against being swallowed by their smaller foes.

Yearling sets are largely planted, but the experiments of Krabe tend to prove, and the practice of the best Midland and West of England growers confirms, the superior productiveness of sets cut from two yearling rods.

These are known as brown rods.

The finer kinds, after the more shrubby or ill-grown rods, termed Ragged, have been rejected, are peeled or buffed.

By the former method the rods are left on the ground until spring advances, when a rapid growth of the cork cambium begins.

They are then cut direct from the head and the bark is easily removed by drawing the rods through a bifurcated hand-brake of smooth, well-rounded steel, framed in wood.

Improved brakes worked by a treadle strip two rods at a time.

This method ensures a clean-butted unfractured rod, but unless great judgment is exercised in selecting the proper time for cutting, the rods will remain double-skinned and the head may bleed.

By the "pit" process the green rods are stood upright in shallow pits of water at a depth of about 6 to 9 in.

After stripping, the rods are bleached in the sun and stored for sale as White.

If the rods are to be buffed they are immersed in large tanks of boiling water from 4 to 6 hours.

Brown rods may also be buffed by sinking them in cold water which is heated to boiling point, and maintained at that temperature for the requisite period.

White rods, costing from £3, to £3, 7s.

From the cephalic part of this primary diverticulum solid rods of cells called the hepatic cylinders grow out, and these branch again and again until a cellular network is formed surrounding and breaking up the umbilical and vitelline veins.

Its pliant and flexible branches are made into brooms; and in ancient Rome the fasces of the lictors, with which they cleared the way for the magistrates, were made up of birch rods.

A similar use of birch rods has continued among pedagogues to times so recent that the birch is yet, literally or metaphorically, the instrument of school-room discipline.

Bobbins to the number of strands which are to be twisted into one are mounted in a creel on the doubling frame, and the strands are passed over smooth rods of glass or metal through a reciprocating guide to the bobbin on which they are wound.

In order to reduce the thickness of the walls and floor he conceived the idea of strengthening them by building in a network of iron rods.

The steel reinforcement is generally applied in the form of vertical rods built in the wall at intervals, with lighter horizontal rods which cross the vertical ones, and thus form a network of steel which is buried in the concrete.

These rods assist in taking the weight, and the whole network binds the concrete together and prevents it from FIG.

Care must be taken, hcwever, that all the rods are covered by at least an Expanded Metal.

In the Cottancin system the concrete is replaced by bricks pierced with holes through which the vertical rods are threaded; the horizontal tie-rods are also used, but these do not merely cross the vertical ones, but are woven in and out of them.