The meaning of ROD is a straight slender stick growing on or cut from a tree or bush. How to use rod in a sentence.

The terms pole, perch, rod and rood have been used as units of area, and perch is also used as a unit of volume. As a unit of area, a square perch (the perch being standardized to equal 161⁄2 feet, or …

Idiom make a rod for your own back (Definition of rod from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

(Anatomy) Also called: retinal rod any of the elongated cylindrical cells in the retina of the eye, containing the visual purple (rhodopsin), which are sensitive to dim light but not to colour.

A rod is a long, thin metal or wooden bar. ...a 15-foot thick roof that was reinforced with steel rods. 2. See also fishing rod, lightning rod

Definition of rod noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.

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.

I do not remember what they all were; but I do know that mother, father, sister, teacher were among them--words that were to make the world blossom for me, "like Aaron's rod, with flowers."

rod′less, adj. rod′like′, adj. Rod (rod), n. a male given name, form of Roderick or Rodney.

Feb 21, 2026 · 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.