Pole vs. Rod

Polenoun

Originally, a stick; now specifically, a long and slender piece of metal or (especially) wood, used for various construction or support purposes.

Polenoun

(angling) A type of basic fishing rod.

Polenoun

A long sports implement used for pole-vaulting; now made of glassfiber or carbon fiber, formerly also metal, bamboo and wood have been used.

Polenoun

A telescope used to identify birds, aeroplanes or wildlife.

Polenoun

(historical) A unit of length, equal to a perch (¼ chain or 5½ yards).

Polenoun

(motor racing) Pole position.

Polenoun

A gun.

Polenoun

Either of the two points on the earth's surface around which it rotates; also, similar points on any other rotating object.

Polenoun

A point of magnetic focus, especially each of the two opposing such points of a magnet (designated north and south).

Polenoun

(geometry) A fixed point relative to other points or lines.

Polenoun

(electricity) A contact on an electrical device (such as a battery) at which electric current enters or leaves.

Polenoun

(complex analysis) For a meromorphic function f(z), any point a for which f(z) \rightarrow \infty as z \rightarrow a.

Polenoun

(obsolete) The firmament; the sky.

Polenoun

Either of the states that characterize a bipolar disorder.

Poleverb

To propel by pushing with poles, to push with a pole.

Poleverb

To identify something quite precisely using a telescope.

Poleverb

(transitive) To furnish with poles for support.

Poleverb

(transitive) To convey on poles.

Poleverb

(transitive) To stir, as molten glass, with a pole.

Poleverb

(transitive) To induce piezoelectricity in (a substance) by aligning the dipoles.

Polenoun

A native or inhabitant of Poland; a Polander.

Polenoun

A long, slender piece of wood; a tall, slender piece of timber; the stem of a small tree whose branches have been removed; as, specifically: (a) A carriage pole, a wooden bar extending from the front axle of a carriage between the wheel horses, by which the carriage is guided and held back. (b) A flag pole, a pole on which a flag is supported. (c) A Maypole. See Maypole. (d) A barber's pole, a pole painted in stripes, used as a sign by barbers and hairdressers. (e) A pole on which climbing beans, hops, or other vines, are trained.

Polenoun

A measuring stick; also, a measure of length equal to 5 yards, or a square measure equal to 30 square yards; a rod; a perch.

Polenoun

Either extremity of an axis of a sphere; especially, one of the extremities of the earth's axis; as, the north pole.

Polenoun

A point upon the surface of a sphere equally distant from every part of the circumference of a great circle; or the point in which a diameter of the sphere perpendicular to the plane of such circle meets the surface. Such a point is called the pole of that circle; as, the pole of the horizon; the pole of the ecliptic; the pole of a given meridian.

Polenoun

One of the opposite or contrasted parts or directions in which a polar force is manifested; a point of maximum intensity of a force which has two such points, or which has polarity; as, the poles of a magnet; the north pole of a needle.

Polenoun

The firmament; the sky.

Polenoun

See Polarity, and Polar, n.

Poleverb

To furnish with poles for support; as, to pole beans or hops.

Poleverb

To convey on poles; as, to pole hay into a barn.

Poleverb

To impel by a pole or poles, as a boat.

Poleverb

To stir, as molten glass, with a pole.

Polenoun

a long (usually round) rod of wood or metal or plastic

Polenoun

a native or inhabitant of Poland

Polenoun

one of two divergent or mutually exclusive opinions;

Polenoun

a linear measure of 16.5 feet

Polenoun

a square rod of land

Polenoun

one of two points of intersection of the Earth's axis and the celestial sphere

Polenoun

one of two antipodal points where the Earth's axis of rotation intersects the Earth's surface

Polenoun

a contact on an electrical device (such as a battery) at which electric current enters or leaves

Polenoun

a long fiberglass sports implement used for pole vaulting

Polenoun

one of the two ends of a magnet where the magnetism seems to be concentrated

Poleverb

propel with a pole;

Poleverb

support on poles;

Poleverb

deoxidize molten metals by stirring them with a wooden pole

Rodnoun

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

Rodnoun

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

Rodnoun

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

Rodnoun

A stick, pole, or bundle of switches or twigs (such as a birch), used for personal defense or to administer corporal punishment by whipping.

Rodnoun

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.

Rodnoun

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.

Rodnoun

(archaic) A unit of length equal to 1 pole, a perch, ¼ chain, 5½ yards, 16½ feet, or exactly 5.0292 meters (these being all equivalent).

Rodnoun

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 (US) 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, 5½ yards.

Rodnoun

(archaic) A unit of area equal to a square rod, 30¼ square yards or 1/160 acre.

Rodnoun

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.

Rodnoun

(anatomy) Short for rod cell, a rod-shaped cell in the eye that is sensitive to light.

Rodnoun

(biology) Any of a number of long, slender microorganisms.

Rodnoun

(chemistry) 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.

Rodnoun

(slang) A pistol; a gun.

Rodnoun

A penis.

Rodnoun

(slang) 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.

Rodnoun

(ufology) 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.

Rodnoun

(mathematics) A Cuisenaire rod.

Rodnoun

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

Rodverb

(construction) To reinforce concrete with metal rods.

Rodverb

To penetrate sexually.

Rodverb

(slang) To hot rod.

Rodnoun

A straight and slender stick; a wand; hence, any slender bar, as of wood or metal (applied to various purposes).

Rodnoun

A kind of sceptor, or badge of office; hence, figuratively, power; authority; tyranny; oppression.

Rodnoun

A measure of length containing sixteen and a half feet; - called also perch, and pole.

Rodnoun

a linear measure of 16.5 feet

Rodnoun

a long thin implement made of metal or wood

Rodnoun

any rod-shaped bacterium

Rodnoun

a square rod of land

Rodnoun

visual receptor cell sensitive to dim light

Rodnoun

a gangster's pistol