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rod | strip |

As nouns the difference between rod and strip

is that rod is road, roadstead while strip is (countable|uncountable) material in long, thin pieces.

As a verb strip is

to remove or take away.

rod

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A straight, round stick, shaft, bar, cane, or staff.
  • :The circus strong man proved his strength by bending an iron rod , and then straightening it.
  • (fishing) A long slender usually tapering pole used for angling; fishing rod.
  • :When I hooked a snake and not a fish, I got so scared I dropped my rod in the water.
  • A stick, pole, or bundle of switches or twigs (such as a birch), used for personal defense or to administer corporal punishment by whipping.
  • *, II.8:
  • *:So was I brought up: they tell mee, that in all my youth, I never felt rod but twice, and that very lightly.
  • 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.
  • :The judge imposed on the thief a sentence of fifteen strokes with the rod .
  • 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.
  • :I notched a rod and used it to measure the length of rope to cut.
  • (senseid)(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).
  • *1842 , (Edgar Allan Poe), ‘The Mystery of Marie Rogêt’:
  • *:‘And this thicket, so full of a natural art, was in the immediate vicinity, within a few rods , of the dwelling of Madame Deluc, whose boys were in the habit of closely examining the shrubberies about them in search of the bark of the sassafras.’
  • *1865 , , '' Cape Cod
  • *:In one of the villages I saw the next summer a cow tethered by a rope six rods long.
  • *1900 , , (The House Behind the Cedars) , Ch.I:
  • *:A few rods farther led him past the old black Presbyterian church, with its square tower, embowered in a stately grove; past the Catholic church, with its many crosses, and a painted wooden figure of St. James in a recess beneath the gable; and past the old Jefferson House, once the leading hotel of the town, in front of which political meetings had been held, and political speeches made, and political hard cider drunk, in the days of "Tippecanoe and Tyler too."
  • 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.
  • (archaic) A unit of area equal to a square rod, 30¼ square yards or 1/160 acre.
  • :The house had a small yard of about six rods in size.
  • 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.
  • :The engine threw a rod , and then went to pieces before our eyes, springs and coils shooting in all directions.
  • (anatomy) Short for rod cell, a rod-shaped cell in the eye that is sensitive to light.
  • :The rods are more sensitive than the cones, but do not discern color.
  • (biology) Any of a number of long, slender microorganisms.
  • :He applied a gram positive stain, looking for rods indicative of ''Listeria''.
  • (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.
  • (slang) A pistol; a gun.
  • (slang) A penis.
  • (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.
  • (ufology) rod-shaped objects which appear in photographs and videos traveling at high speed, not seen by the person recording the event, often associated with extraterrestrial entities.
  • *2000 , Jack Barranger, Paul Tice, Mysteries Explored: The Search for Human Origins, Ufos, and Religious Beginnings , Book Three, p.37:
  • *:These cylindrical rods fly through the air at incredible speeds and can only be picked up by high-speed cameras.
  • *2009 , Barry Conrad, An Unknown Encounter: A True Account of the San Pedro Haunting , Dorrance Publishing, pp.129–130:
  • *:During one such broadcast in 1997, the esteemed radio host bellowed, “I got a fax earlier today from MUFON (Mutual UFO Network) in Arizona and they said what you think are rods are actually insects!”
  • *2010 , Deena West Budd, The Weiser Field Guide to Cryptozoology: Werewolves, Dragons, Skyfish, Lizard Men, and Other Fascinating Creatures Real and Mysterious , Weiser Books, p.15:
  • *:He tells of a home video showing a rod flying into the open mouth of a girl singing at a wedding.
  • (mathematics) A (w).
  • Synonyms

    * See also * See also * (objects in photographs and videos) skyfish

    Derived terms

    * divining rod * rodbuster * rod for one's back * rodman * rod-shaped * Lightning rod Lightning conductor or rod in OSM *

    See also

    * crook

    References

    Anagrams

    * (l), * (l) * (l) * (l)

    Verb

  • To penetrate sexually.
  • * 1968 , David Lynn, Bull nuts
  • On impulse he moved around to the opposite side of the couple, in the direction which Grace's broad buttocks were pointed, for a full view of the big boned woman's back side. Now Grace wouldn't mind one iota if he rodded her from the rear.
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    strip

    English

    Etymology 1

    From alteration of

    Noun

  • (countable, uncountable) Material in long, thin pieces.
  • * , chapter=19
  • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=At the far end of the houses the head gardener stood waiting for his mistress, and he gave her strips of bass to tie up her nosegay. This she did slowly and laboriously, with knuckly old fingers that shook.}}
  • A comic strip.
  • A landing strip.
  • A strip steak.
  • A street with multiple shopping or entertainment possibilities.
  • (fencing) The fencing area, roughly 14 meters by 2 meters.
  • (UK football) the uniform of a football team, or the same worn by supporters.
  • Striptease.
  • (mining) A trough for washing ore.
  • The issuing of a projectile from a rifled gun without acquiring the spiral motion.
  • (Farrow)
    Derived terms
    * bimetal strip * clip strip * comic strip * electronic strip * landing strip * * nature strip * rubbing strip * strip cartoon * strip mall

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl)

    Verb

  • To remove or take away.
  • Norm will strip the old varnish before painting the chair.
  • (usually) To take off clothing.
  • * {{quote-news
  • , date = 21 August 2012 , first = Ed , last = Pilkington , title = Death penalty on trial: should Reggie Clemons live or die? , newspaper = The Guardian , url = http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/aug/21/death-penalty-trial-reggie-clemons?newsfeed=true , page = , passage = The prosecution case was that the men forced the sisters to strip , threw their clothes over the bridge, then raped them and participated in forcing them to jump into the river to their deaths. As he walked off the bridge, Clemons was alleged to have said: "We threw them off. Let's go."}}
  • To perform a striptease.
  • To take away something from (someone or something); to plunder; to divest.
  • * Bible, Genesis xxxvii. 23
  • They stripped Joseph out of his coat.
  • * Macaulay
  • opinions which no clergyman could have avowed without imminent risk of being stripped of his gown
  • * The robbers stripped Norm of everything he owned.
  • * 1856 : (Gustave Flaubert), (Madame Bovary), Part III Chapter XI, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling
  • He was obliged to sell his silver piece by piece; next he sold the drawing-room furniture. All the rooms were stripped ; but the bedroom, her own room, remained as before.
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2012 , date=April 23 , author=Angelique Chrisafis , title=François Hollande on top but far right scores record result in French election , work=the Guardian citation , page= , passage=The lawyer and twice-divorced mother of three had presented herself as the modern face of her party, trying to strip' it of unsavoury overtones after her father's convictions for saying the Nazi occupation of France was not "particularly inhumane".}}
    • '2013 , Paul Harris, ''Lance Armstrong faces multi-million dollar legal challenges after confession'' (in
    The Guardian
    , 19 January 2013)[http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2013/jan/19/lance-armstrong-legal-challenges-confession]
    After the confession, the lawsuits. Lance Armstrong's extended appearance on the Oprah Winfrey network, in which the man stripped of seven Tour de France wins finally admitted to doping, has opened him up to several multi-million dollar legal challenges.
  • To remove (the thread or teeth) from a screw, nut, or gear.
  • The thread is stripped .
  • To remove the thread or teeth from (a screw, nut, or gear).
  • The screw is stripped .
  • To fail in the thread; to lose the thread, as a bolt, screw, or nut.
  • To remove color from hair, cloth, etc. to prepare it to receive new color.
  • (bridge) To remove all cards of a particular suit from another player. (See also, strip-squeeze.)
  • To empty (tubing) by applying pressure to the outside of (the tubing) and moving that pressure along (the tubing).
  • To milk a cow, especially by stroking and compressing the teats to draw out the last of the milk.
  • (television) To run a television series at the same time daily (or at least on Mondays to Fridays), so that it appears as a strip straight across the weekly schedule.
  • (agriculture) To pare off the surface of (land) in strips.
  • (obsolete) To pass; to get clear of; to outstrip.
  • * Chapman
  • when first they stripped the Malean promontory
  • * Beaumont and Fletcher
  • Before he reached it he was out of breath, / And then the other stripped him.
  • To remove the metal coating from (a plated article), as by acids or electrolytic action.
  • To remove fibre, flock, or lint from; said of the teeth of a card when it becomes partly clogged.
  • To pick the cured leaves from the stalks of (tobacco) and tie them into "hands"; to remove the midrib from (tobacco leaves).
  • Synonyms
    * deprive * peel * uncover
    Derived terms
    * strip away * strip down * strip off * striptease * stripped down * stripper
    References
    * OED 2nd edition 1989 * Funk&Wagnalls Standard College Dictionary

    Anagrams

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