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Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th
rod
rod [rod rods] BrE [rɒd] NAmE [rɑːd] noun
1. (often used in compounds)a long straight piece of wood, metal or glass
see also ↑lightning rod
2. = ↑fishing rod
•fishing with rod and line
3. (also the rod) (old-fashioned)a stick that is used for hitting people as a punishment
•There used to be a saying: ‘Spare the rod and spoil the child.’
4. (NAmE, slang)a small gun
more at a rod/stick to beat sb with at ↑beat v., rule with a rod of iron at ↑rule v.
Idiom: ↑make a rod for your own back
Word Origin:
late Old English rodd ‘slender shoot growing on or cut from a tree’, also ‘straight stick or bundle of twigs used to inflict punishment’; probably related to Old Norse rudda ‘club’.
Example Bank:
•After the accident she had an operation to put strengthening rods in her legs.
•He heated the end of the iron rod.
•The concrete is reinforced with steel rods.
•a fishing rod
•a glass fibre rod 2 or 3 mm in diameter
•a lightening rod
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