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Staff (noun)
A long, straight, thick wooden rod or stick, especially one used to assist in walking.
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Staff (noun)
A series of horizontal lines on which musical notes are written.
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Staff (noun)
The employees of a business.
“The company employed 10 new members of staff this month.”
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Staff (noun)
A mixture of W
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Staff (noun)
A pole, stick, or wand borne as an ensign of authority; a badge of office.
“a constable’s staff”
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Staff (noun)
A pole upon which a flag is supported and displayed.
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Staff (noun)
The rung of a ladder.
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Staff (noun)
A series of verses so disposed that, when it is concluded, the same order begins again; a stanza; a stave.
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Staff (noun)
An arbor, as of a wheel or a pinion of a watch.
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Staff (noun)
The grooved director for the gorget, or knife, used in cutting for stone in the bladder.
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Staff (noun)
An establishment of officers in various departments attached to an army, to a section of an army, or to the commander of an army. The general’s staff consists of those officers about his person who are employed in carrying his commands into execution.
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Staff (verb)
To supply (a business, volunteer organization, etc.) with employees or staff members.
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Rod (noun)
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.”
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Rod (noun)
A longitudinal pole used for forming part of a framework such as an awning or tent.
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Rod (noun)
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.”
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Rod (noun)
A stick, pole, or bundle of switches or twigs (such as a birch), used for personal defense or to administer corporal punishment by whipping.
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Rod (noun)
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.”
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Rod (noun)
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.”
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Rod (noun)
A feet, or exactly 5.0292 meters (these being all equivalent).
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Rod (noun)
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 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.
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Rod (noun)
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.”
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Rod (noun)
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.”
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Rod (noun)
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.”
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Rod (noun)
Any of a number of long, slender microorganisms.
“He applied a gram positive stain, looking for rods indicative of Listeria.”
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Rod (noun)
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.
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Rod (noun)
A pistol; a gun.
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Rod (noun)
A penis.
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Rod (noun)
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.
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Rod (noun)
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.
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Rod (noun)
A Cuisenaire rod.
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Rod (noun)
A coupling rod or connecting rod, which links the driving wheels of a steam locomotive.
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Rod (verb)
To reinforce concrete with metal rods.
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Rod (verb)
To penetrate sexually.
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Rod (verb)
To hot rod.