Rod vs. Strut

Rodnoun

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.’;

Strutnoun

Protuberance, air pressure

Rodnoun

A longitudinal pole used for forming part of a framework such as an awning or tent.

Strutnoun

A proud step or walk, with the head erect; affected dignity in walking.

Rodnoun

(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.’;

Strutnoun

A support rod.

Rodnoun

A stick, pole, or bundle of switches or twigs (such as a birch), used for personal defense or to administer corporal punishment by whipping.

Strutnoun

An instrument for adjusting the pleats of a ruff.

Rodnoun

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.’;

Strutverb

(intransitive) To swell; protuberate; bulge or spread out.

Rodnoun

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.’;

Strutverb

To stand or walk stiffly, with the tail erect and spread out.

Rodnoun

(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).

Strutverb

(intransitive) To walk proudly or haughtily.

‘He strutted about the yard, thinking himself master of all he surveyed.’;

Rodnoun

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.

Strutverb

To cause to swell; enlarge; give more importance to.

Rodnoun

(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.’;

Strutverb

(transitive) To protrude; cause to bulge.

Rodnoun

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.’;

Strutverb

To brace or support by a strut ot struts; hold in place or strengthen by an upright, diagonal, or transverse support.

Rodnoun

(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.’;

Strutadjective

(archaic) Swelling out; protuberant; bulging.

Rodnoun

(biology) Any of a number of long, slender microorganisms.

‘He applied a gram positive stain, looking for rods indicative of Listeria.’;

Strutverb

To swell; to bulge out.

‘The bellying canvas strutted with the gale.’;

Rodnoun

(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.

Strutverb

To walk with a lofty, proud gait, and erect head; to walk with affected dignity.

‘Does he not hold up his head, . . . and strut in his gait?’;

Rodnoun

(slang) A pistol; a gun.

Strutverb

To hold apart. Cf. Strut, n., 3.

Rodnoun

A penis.

Strutnoun

The act of strutting; a pompous step or walk.

Rodnoun

(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.

Strutnoun

In general, any piece of a frame which resists thrust or pressure in the direction of its own length. See Brace, and Illust. of Frame, and Roof.

Rodnoun

(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.

Strutnoun

Any part of a machine or structure, of which the principal function is to hold things apart; a brace subjected to compressive stress; - the opposite of stay, and tie.

Rodnoun

(mathematics) A Cuisenaire rod.

Strutadjective

Protuberant.

Rodnoun

(rail transport) A coupling rod or connecting rod, which links the driving wheels of a steam locomotive.

Strutadjective

Struthious.

Rodverb

(construction) To reinforce concrete with metal rods.

Strutnoun

a proud stiff pompous gait

Rodverb

To penetrate sexually.

Strutnoun

brace consisting of a bar or rod used to resist longitudinal compression

Rodverb

(slang) To hot rod.

Strutverb

to walk with a lofty proud gait, often in an attempt to impress others;

‘He struts around like a rooster in a hen house’;

Rodnoun

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.’;

Strutnoun

a rod or bar forming part of a framework and designed to resist compression

‘a spindly framework of long, slender struts, girders, and bracing wire’; ‘a supporting strut’;

Rodnoun

A kind of sceptor, or badge of office; hence, figuratively, power; authority; tyranny; oppression.

Strutnoun

a stiff, erect, and apparently arrogant or conceited gait

‘that old confident strut and swagger has returned’;

Rodnoun

A measure of length containing sixteen and a half feet; - called also perch, and pole.

Strutverb

walk with a stiff, erect, and apparently arrogant or conceited gait

‘she strutted down the catwalk’; ‘peacocks strut through the grounds’;

Rodnoun

a linear measure of 16.5 feet

Strutverb

brace (something) with a strut or struts

‘the holes were close-boarded and strutted’;

Rodnoun

a long thin implement made of metal or wood

Strut

A strut is a structural component commonly found in engineering, aeronautics, architecture and anatomy. Struts generally work by resisting longitudinal compression, but they may also serve in tension.

Rodnoun

any rod-shaped bacterium

Rodnoun

a square rod of land

Rodnoun

visual receptor cell sensitive to dim light

Rodnoun

a gangster's pistol