What's the difference between lode and rode?

Lode


Definition:

  • (n.) A water course or way; a reach of water.
  • (n.) A metallic vein; any regular vein or course, whether metallic or not.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) 3 Turn left to follow the path, keeping Monk's Lode on your left.
  • (2) A 1971-72 study of the Nevada Carson River drainage system by the Geological Survey, U.S. Department of Interior, revealed substantial amounts of mercury from pre-1900 gold and silver milling operations of the Comstock Lode.
  • (3) Isolated in Ivory Coast: S. dabou (8,20:Z4,Z23,l,W), S. elokate (9,12:c:1,7), S. assinie (3,10:1,w:Z5), S. anna (13,23:Z35:e,n,Z16), S. mpouto (16:m,t:-), S. banco (28:r:1,7), S. abidjan (38:b:l,w); in Senegal: S. bignona (17:b:e,n,Z15), S. lode (17:r:1,2), S. derkle (52,e,h:1,7); in Tchad: S. moussoro (1,6,14,25:i:e,n,Z15), S. drogana (1,4,12,27:r,i:e,n,Z15); in Algeria: S. hydra (21:c:1,6); in Haute-Volta S. farakan (28:Z10:1,5); in Republique Centrafricaine: S. babili (28:Z35:1,7).
  • (4) The samples of 2 lode quartz and 4 sand quartz originated from different mines in Poland were used for the experiment.
  • (5) This valuable lode of research findings offers a basis for comparing the developmental neurobehavioral toxicity of lead across species and for assessing the validity of animal models of developmental neurotoxicity.
  • (6) Shrubs and trees are on your left; the reed-edged water of Wicken Lode is on your right – take care to stay on the paths.
  • (7) Gachapon machines are found all over Japan, but the mother lode is at Akihabara's Gachapon Kaikan where more than 450 machines are lined up inside a warehouse-like space.
  • (8) The sheer size of the haul – described by one official recently as a mother lode of intelligence – has slowed the flow of information, however.
  • (9) "OK, so Kilfenora is the home, the mother lode, for Father T**.
  • (10) It is understood that British computer forensics experts at GCHQ are on standby to help sift through what one US official described as "the mother lode of intelligence" to the Politico website.
  • (11) 2 After 450m follow the path round to the left, and then turn right across the footbridge of Monk's Lode.
  • (12) The A. have then lodeed for the correlation that should exist, in series of both sexes in France and Congo: a more hallow plantar arch = a stronger T.F.T.
  • (13) Each of us chooses to seek a different "mother lode," up a different stream.

Rode


Definition:

  • (imp.) of Ride
  • (n.) Redness; complexion.
  • () imp. of Ride.
  • (n.) See Rood, the cross.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I felt a much stronger connection with the kids on my home block, who I rode bikes with nightly.
  • (2) I thought we rode our luck in the first 20 minutes here.
  • (3) Eleven male cyclists rode at a high (80% of maximum VO2) and a low (60% of maximum VO2) workrate using each chainring.
  • (4) The country's president, Dilma Rousseff, rode a bus to mark Sunday's official opening of a $700m (£417m) bus corridor for quickly moving people between the airport and subway stations in the western part of the city.
  • (5) At the end of each weekly diet treatment, subjects rode on a cycle ergometer at 80% VO2max until fatigued.
  • (6) A reshaped defence – even with one of the locals’ hate figures, Dejan Lovren, standing in for the injured Mamadou Sakho – rode its luck amid the calls for a home penalty but emerged with a fifth successive clean sheet away from home in the league for the first time in 30 years.
  • (7) RESULTS - Of 68 pediatric patients treated for accidental carbon monoxide poisoning, 20 cases occurred as children rode in the back of pickup trucks.
  • (8) With that, Elizabeth retired to pray that her husband would be noble and manly enough to cope with whatever horrors might be revealed, while he and Colonel Fitzwilliam rode out to the woods.
  • (9) We can all imagine situations in which one could argue that there was a genuine public interest in exposure which over-rode the privacy concerns outlined above.
  • (10) I rode when I was a kid every day.” It was suggested that Wenger could take up riding again.
  • (11) Back in the early 1990s, President Bill Clinton rode to power on the strength of one savvy motto: "It's the economy, stupid."
  • (12) Law and Justice rode to power on the back of frustration that the post-1989 settlement failed to spread wealth more equally and frustration with endemic corruption.
  • (13) I don’t know why you people think that cops wake up one day and say ‘well I’m going to shoot somebody’,” says 56-year-old Dave Lenley, who rode all the way from London, Kentucky.
  • (14) World Bank lending: how the organisation rode roughshod over its own rules – interactive Read more The bank has said its goals are to end extreme poverty and reduce income inequality worldwide.
  • (15) (v) The results were explained in terms of a centrally integrated response to injury involving the hypothalamus which over-rode the controls operating in normal rats.
  • (16) The sale is a dramatic turnaround for San Francisco-based Blogger, which rode the high and subsequent low of the dotcom boom.
  • (17) In May 1935 Lawrence rode away from Clouds Hill on the last of his series of powerful Brough Superior motorbikes and died in circumstances that are still debated.
  • (18) At 11am Werritty and Fox were whisked into the hotel and rode the elevator to the executive meeting suite, one floor above Werritty's room on the 40th floor.
  • (19) Declarative memories are those you can state as true or false, such as remembering whether you rode a bicycle to work.
  • (20) later, 66 adults between the ages of 18 and 48 yr. took all cognitive tests and rode a bicycle ergometer to estimate physical fitness.