Synonyms of the word

rod

• n. A straight, round stick, shaft, bar, cane, or staff.
• n. (fishing) A long slender usually tapering pole used for angling; fishing rod.
• n. A stick, pole, or bundle of switches or twigs (such as a birch), used for personal defense or to administer…
• n. An implement resembling and/or supplanting a rod (particularly a cane) that is used for corporal punishment,…
• n. A stick used to measure distance, by using its established length or task-specific temporary marks along…
• n. (archaic) A unit of length equal to 1 pole, a perch, ¼ chain, 5½ yards, 16½ feet, or exactly 5.0292 meters…
• n. An implement held vertically and viewed through an optical surveying instrument such as a transit, used…
• n. (archaic) A unit of area equal to a square rod, 30¼ square yards or 1/160 acre.
• n. A straight bar that unites moving parts of a machine, for holding parts together as a connecting rod or…
• n. (anatomy) Short for rod cell, a rod-shaped cell in the eye that is sensitive to light.
• n. (biology) Any of a number of long, slender microorganisms.
• n. (chemistry) A stirring rod: a glass rod, typically about 6 inches to 1 foot long and 1/8 to 1/4 inch in…
• n. (slang) A pistol; a gun.
• n. (slang, vulgar) A penis.
• n. (slang) A hot rod, an automobile or other passenger motor vehicle modified to run faster and often with…
• n. (ufology) A rod-shaped object that appears in photographs or videos traveling at high speed, not seen…
• n. (mathematics) A Cuisenaire rod.
• n. (rail transport) A coupling rod or connecting rod, which links the driving wheels of a steam locomotive.
• v. (construction) To reinforce concrete with metal rods.
• v. (slang, vulgar, transitive) To penetrate sexually.

bacteria

• n. plural of bacterium.
• n. (US) A type, species, or strain of bacterium.
• n. (US, proscribed) Alternative form of bacterium.
• n. (pejorative, slang) A derisive term for a lowlife or a slob (could be treated as plural or singular).
• n. (dated, medicine) An oval bacterium, as distinguished from a spherical coccus or rod-shaped bacillus.

bacterium

• n. (microbiology) A single celled organism with cell walls but no nucleus or organelles.

gat

• n. (archaic, slang, in old westerns) A Gatling gun.
• n. (1920s gangster slang) Any type of gun, usually a pistol.
• v. (slang) To shoot someone with a pistol or other handheld firearm.
• n. (New Zealand, slang) A guitar.
• v. (Scottish and Northern English, or archaic) simple past tense of get.

handgun

• n. A small gun with a relatively short barrel, designed to be held and operated with a single hand.

implement

• n. A tool or instrument for working with.
• v. to bring about; to put into practice.
• v. to carry out; to do.

perch

• n. Any of the three species of spiny-finned freshwater fish in the genus Perca.
• n. Any of the about 200 related species of fish in the taxonomic family Percidae.
• n. Several similar species in the order Perciformes, such as the grouper.
• n. a rod, staff, or branch of a tree etc used as a roost by a bird.
• n. A pole connecting the fore gear and hind gear of a spring carriage; a reach.
• n. a position that is secure and advantageous, especially one which is prominent or elevated.
• n. (dated) a linear measure of 5½ yards, equal to a rod, a pole or ¼ chain; the related square measure.
• n. a cubic measure of stonework equal to 16.6 × 1.5 × 1 feet.
• n. (textiles) a frame used to examine cloth.
• n. A bar used to support a candle (especially in a church).
• v. (intransitive) To rest on (or as if on) a perch; to roost.
• v. (intransitive) To stay in an elevated position.
• v. (transitive) To place something on (or as if on) a perch.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, textiles) To inspect cloth using a perch.

pistol

• n. A handgun, typically with a chamber integrated in the barrel, a semi-automatic action and a box magazine.
• n. The mechanical component of a fuse in a bomb or torpedo responsible for firing the detonator.
• n. A creative and unpredictable jokester, a constant source of entertainment and surprises.
• n. (Southern US) A small boy who is bright, alert and very active.
• n. (American football) A play formation in which the quarterback is a few feet behind the center when the…
• v. (transitive) To shoot (at) a target with a pistol.

pole

• n. Originally, a stick; now specifically, a long and slender piece of metal or (especially) wood, used for…
• n. (fishing) A type of basic fishing rod.
• n. A long fiberglass sports implement used for pole-vaulting.
• n. (slang, spotting) A telescope used to identify birds, aeroplanes or wildlife.
• n. (historical) A unit of length, equal to a perch (¼ chain or 5½ yards).
• n. (motor racing) Pole position.
• v. To propel by pushing with poles, to push with a pole.
• v. To identify something quite precisely using a telescope.
• v. (transitive) To furnish with poles for support.
• v. (transitive) To convey on poles.
• v. (transitive) To stir, as molten glass, with a pole.
• n. Either of the two points on the earth's surface around which it rotates; also, similar points on any other…
• n. A point of magnetic focus, especially each of the two opposing such points of a magnet (designated north…
• n. (geometry) A fixed point relative to other points or lines.
• n. (electricity) A contact on an electrical device (such as a battery) at which electric current enters or…
• n. (obsolete) The firmament; the sky.
• n. Either of the states that characterize a bipolar disorder.
• v. (transitive) To induce piezoelectricity in (a substance) by aligning the dipoles.