Dag vs. Rod — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Dag and Rod
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Dag
A lock of matted or dung-coated wool.
Rod
A fishing rod.
Dag
A hanging end or shred.
Rod
A piston rod.
Dag
A hanging end or shred, in particular a long pointed strip of cloth at the edge of a piece of clothing, or one of a row of decorative strips of cloth that may ornament a tent, booth or fairground.
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Rod
An often expandable horizontal bar, especially of metal, used to suspend household items such as curtains or towels.
Dag
A dangling lock of sheep’s wool matted with dung.
Rod
A leveling rod.
Dag
A skewer.
Rod
A lightning rod.
Dag
A spit, a sharpened rod used for roasting food over a fire.
Rod
A divining rod.
Dag
(obsolete) A dagger; a poniard.
Rod
A measuring stick.
Dag
(obsolete) A kind of large pistol.
Rod
One of the horizontal elements in a truss system underneath a rail car, especially a freight car.
Dag
The unbranched antler of a young deer.
Rod
A shoot or stem cut from or growing as part of a woody plant.
Dag
One who dresses unfashionably or without apparent care about appearance; someone who is not cool; a dweeb or nerd.
Rod
A stick or bundle of sticks or switches used to give punishment by whipping.
Dag
An odd or eccentric person; someone who is a bit strange but amusingly so.
Rod
Punishment; correction.
Dag
(graph theory) A directed acyclic graph; an ordered pair such that is a subset of some partial ordering relation on .
Rod
A scepter, staff, or wand symbolizing power or authority.
Dag
A misty shower; dew.
Rod
Power or dominion, especially of a tyrannical nature
"under the rod of a cruel slavery" (John Henry Newman).
Dag
To shear the hindquarters of a sheep in order to remove dags or prevent their formation.
Rod
A linear measure equal to 5.5 yards or 16.5 feet (5.03 meters). Also called pole2.
Dag
To sully; to make dirty; to bemire.
Rod
The square of this measure, equal to 30.25 square yards or 272.25 square feet (25.30 square meters).
Dag
(transitive) To skewer food, for roasting over a fire
Rod
(Anatomy) Any of various rod-shaped cells in the retina that respond to dim light. Also called rod cell.
Dag
(transitive) To cut or slash the edge of a garment into dags
Rod
(Microbiology) An elongated bacterium; a bacillus.
Dag
To be misty; to drizzle.
Rod
(Slang) A pistol or revolver.
Dag
Expressing shock, awe or surprise; used as a general intensifier.
Rod
Vulgar Slang A penis, especially when erect.
Dag
A dagger; a poniard.
Rod
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.
Dag
A large pistol formerly used.
The Spaniards discharged their dags, and hurt some.
A sort of pistol, called dag, was used about the same time as hand guns and harquebuts.
Rod
A longitudinal pole used for forming part of a framework such as an awning or tent.
Dag
The unbranched antler of a young deer.
Rod
(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.
Dag
A misty shower; dew.
Rod
A stick, pole, or bundle of switches or twigs (such as a birch), used for personal defense or to administer corporal punishment by whipping.
Dag
A loose end; a dangling shred.
Daglocks, clotted locks hanging in dags or jags at a sheep's tail.
Rod
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.
Dag
To daggle or bemire.
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.
Dag
To cut into jags or points; to slash; as, to dag a garment.
Rod
(archaic) A unit of length equal to 1 pole, a perch, 4 chain, 2 yards, 2 feet, or exactly 5.0292 meters (these being all equivalent).
Dag
To be misty; to drizzle.
Rod
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, 2 yards.
Dag
10 grams
Rod
(archaic) A unit of area equal to a square rod, 4 square yards or 160 acre.
The house had a small yard of about six rods in size.
Dag
A flap along the edge of a garment; used in medieval clothing
Rod
A straight bar that unites moving parts of a machine, for holding parts together as a connecting rod or for transferring power as a driveshaft.
The engine threw a rod, and then went to pieces before our eyes, springs and coils shooting in all directions.
Rod
(anatomy) A 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.
Rod
(biology) Any of a number of long, slender microorganisms.
He applied a gram positive stain, looking for rods indicative of Listeria.
Rod
(chemistry) A stirring rod: a glass rod, typically about 6 inches to 1 foot long and 8 to 4 inch in diameter that can be used to stir liquids in flasks or beakers.
Rod
(slang) A pistol; a gun.
Rod
A penis.
Rod
(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.
Rod
(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.
Rod
(mathematics) A Cuisenaire rod.
Rod
(rail transport) A coupling rod or connecting rod, which links the driving wheels of a steam locomotive, and some diesel shunters and early electric locomotives.
Rod
(construction) To reinforce concrete with metal rods.
Rod
(transitive) To furnish with rods, especially lightning rods.
Rod
To penetrate sexually.
Rod
(slang) To hot rod.
Rod
A straight and slender stick; a wand; hence, any slender bar, as of wood or metal (applied to various purposes).
He that spareth his rod hateth his son.
Rod
A kind of sceptor, or badge of office; hence, figuratively, power; authority; tyranny; oppression.
Rod
A measure of length containing sixteen and a half feet; - called also perch, and pole.
Rod
A linear measure of 16.5 feet
Rod
A long thin implement made of metal or wood
Rod
Any rod-shaped bacterium
Rod
A square rod of land
Rod
Visual receptor cell sensitive to dim light
Rod
A gangster's pistol
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