Rod vs. Scepter

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

Scepternoun

A staff or baton borne by a sovereign, as a ceremonial badge or emblem of authority; a royal mace.

Scepternoun

Hence, royal or imperial power or authority; sovereignty; as, to assume the scepter.

Scepterverb

To endow with the scepter, or emblem of authority; to invest with royal authority.

Scepternoun

the imperial authority symbolized by a scepter

Scepternoun

a ceremonial or emblematic staff