Rod vs. Bacillus — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Rod and Bacillus
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Rod
A fishing rod.
Bacillus
Bacillus (Latin "stick") is a genus of Gram-positive, rod-shaped bacteria, a member of the phylum Firmicutes, with 266 named species. The term is also used to describe the shape (rod) of certain bacteria; and the plural Bacilli is the name of the class of bacteria to which this genus belongs.
Rod
A piston rod.
Bacillus
Any of various bacteria, especially a rod-shaped bacterium.
Rod
An often expandable horizontal bar, especially of metal, used to suspend household items such as curtains or towels.
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Bacillus
Any of various rod-shaped, spore-forming, aerobic bacteria of the genus Bacillus that often occur in chains and include B. anthracis, the causative agent of anthrax.
Rod
A leveling rod.
Bacillus
Any of various rod-shaped, spore-forming aerobic bacteria in the genus Bacillus, some of which cause disease.
Rod
A lightning rod.
Bacillus
Any bacilliform (rod-shaped) bacterium.
Rod
A divining rod.
Bacillus
Something which spreads like bacterial infection.
Rod
A measuring stick.
Bacillus
A variety of bacterium; a microscopic, rod-shaped vegetable organism.
Rod
One of the horizontal elements in a truss system underneath a rail car, especially a freight car.
Bacillus
Aerobic rod-shaped spore-producing bacterium; often occurring in chainlike formations; found primarily in soil
Rod
A shoot or stem cut from or growing as part of a woody plant.
Rod
A stick or bundle of sticks or switches used to give punishment by whipping.
Rod
Punishment; correction.
Rod
A scepter, staff, or wand symbolizing power or authority.
Rod
Power or dominion, especially of a tyrannical nature
"under the rod of a cruel slavery" (John Henry Newman).
Rod
A linear measure equal to 5.5 yards or 16.5 feet (5.03 meters). Also called pole2.
Rod
The square of this measure, equal to 30.25 square yards or 272.25 square feet (25.30 square meters).
Rod
(Anatomy) Any of various rod-shaped cells in the retina that respond to dim light. Also called rod cell.
Rod
(Microbiology) An elongated bacterium; a bacillus.
Rod
(Slang) A pistol or revolver.
Rod
Vulgar Slang A penis, especially when erect.
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.
Rod
A longitudinal pole used for forming part of a framework such as an awning or tent.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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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