Rod vs Tube - What's the difference?
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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.
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*: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.’
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*: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).
To penetrate sexually.
* 1968 , David Lynn, Bull nuts
Anything that is hollow and cylindrical in shape.
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*:But then I had the [massive] flintlock by me for protection. ¶The linen-press and a chest on the top of it formed, however, a very good gun-carriage; and, thus mounted, aim could be taken out of the window […], and a 'bead' could be drawn upon Molly, the dairymaid, kissing the fogger behind the hedge, little dreaming that the deadly tube was levelled at them.
An approximately cylindrical container, usually with a crimped end and a screw top, used to contain and dispense semi-liquid substances.
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The London Underground railway system, originally referred to the lower level lines that ran in tubular tunnels as opposed to the higher ones which ran in rectangular section tunnels. (Often the tube .)
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*1995 , Sue Butler, Lonely Planet Australian Phrasebook: Language Survival Kit
*:Tinnie: a tin of beer — also called a tube .
*2002 , Andrew Swaffer, Katrina O'Brien, Darroch Donald, Footprint Australia Handbook: The Travel Guide'' [text repeated in ''Footprint West Coast Australia Handbook (2003)]
*:Beer is also available from bottleshops (or bottle-o's) in cases (or 'slabs') of 24-36 cans (‘tinnies' or ‘tubes' ) or bottles (‘stubbies') of 375ml each.
*2004 , Paul Matthew St. Pierre, Portrait of the Artist as Australian: L'Oeuvre Bizarre de Barry Humphries
*:That Humphries should imply that, in the Foster's ads, Hogan's ocker appropriated McKenzie's discourse (specifically the idiom "crack an ice-cold tube ") reinforces my contention.
(lb) A wave which pitches forward when breaking, creating a hollow space inside.
A television. Also, derisively, boob tube. British: telly.
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To make or use tubes
As a noun rod
is road, roadstead.As a verb tube is
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* See also * See also * (objects in photographs and videos) skyfishDerived terms
* divining rod * rodbuster * rod for one's back * rodman * rod-shaped * Lightning rodLightning conductor or rod in OSM*
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* crookReferences
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- 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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(wikipedia tube)Noun
(en noun)Usage notes
Use for beer can was popularised in UK by a long-running series of advertisements for Foster's lager, where Paul Hogan used a phrase "crack an ice-cold tube" previously associated with Barry Humphries' character Barry McKenzie. (For discussion of this see Paul Matthew St. Pierre's book cited above.)Hyponyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* buckytube * cathode ray tube * Fallopian tube * inner tube * intubate * knob-and-tube * nanotube * picture tube * test tube * tubal * tubing * tuboplasty * tubular * vacuum tubeVerb
- She tubes lipstick.
- They tubed down the Colorado River.