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Rod vs. Scepter — What's the Difference?

Rod vs. Scepter — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Rod and Scepter

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Rod

A fishing rod.

Scepter

A staff held by a sovereign as an emblem of authority.

Rod

A piston rod.

Scepter

Ruling power or authority; sovereignty.

Rod

An often expandable horizontal bar, especially of metal, used to suspend household items such as curtains or towels.
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Scepter

To invest with royal authority.

Rod

A leveling rod.

Scepter

Alternative form of sceptre

Rod

A lightning rod.

Scepter

Alternative form of sceptre

Rod

A divining rod.

Scepter

A staff or baton borne by a sovereign, as a ceremonial badge or emblem of authority; a royal mace.
And the king held out Esther the golden scepter that was in his hand.

Rod

A measuring stick.

Scepter

Hence, royal or imperial power or authority; sovereignty; as, to assume the scepter.
The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come.

Rod

One of the horizontal elements in a truss system underneath a rail car, especially a freight car.

Scepter

To endow with the scepter, or emblem of authority; to invest with royal authority.
To Britain's queen the sceptered suppliant bends.

Rod

A shoot or stem cut from or growing as part of a woody plant.

Scepter

The imperial authority symbolized by a scepter

Rod

A stick or bundle of sticks or switches used to give punishment by whipping.

Scepter

A ceremonial or emblematic staff

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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