(n.) A straight and slender stick; a wand; hence, any slender bar, as of wood or metal (applied to various purposes).
(n.) An instrument of punishment or correction; figuratively, chastisement.
(n.) A kind of sceptor, or badge of office; hence, figuratively, power; authority; tyranny; oppression.
(n.) A support for a fishing line; a fish pole.
(n.) A member used in tension, as for sustaining a suspended weight, or in tension and compression, as for transmitting reciprocating motion, etc.; a connecting bar.
(n.) An instrument for measuring.
(n.) A measure of length containing sixteen and a half feet; -- called also perch, and pole.
Example Sentences:
(1) The NORPLANT-2 rod system on the other hand consists of only 2 rods.
(2) Since resistance is mainly mediated by R plasmids, we undertook to investigate the characteristics of R plasmid-determined beta-lactamase in 6 Gram-negative rods.
(3) Electroretinographic (ERG), morphometric and biochemical studies on retinas from monkeys or rats reveal that moderate level developmental lead (Pb) exposure produces long-term selective rod deficits and degeneration.
(4) Electron microscopy revealed the presence of a hitherto unreported peculiar "pilovacuolar" inclusion in numerous mitochondria, composed of an electron dense pile or rod within a vacuole, while globular or crystalline inclusions were absent.
(5) Changes in protein phosphorylation induced by phagocytic challenge were identified in cultured rat retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) following exposure to isolated rat rod outer segments (ROS) or to polystyrene latex microspheres (PSL).
(6) Thirty-six investigations were made using a number of lithium fluoride micro-rods for each investigation.
(7) After intravenous or dorsal lymph sac injections of 3H-22:6, most of the retinal label was seen in rod photoreceptor cells.
(8) The antigenic determinant defined by 5E9 was also shown to be present in a 87000 molecular weight polypeptide located in the proximal part of the flagellum of Crithidia oncopelti in which a paraflagellar rod is not detectable at the ultrastructural level.
(9) Chloride caused a significant concentration-dependent shortening of myosin rods due to destabilization of the alpha-helical double coiled rod structure.
(10) Rod adaptation was abnormal in both families, but the time course of adaptation differed between patients with the two mutations.
(11) Electron microscopy shows that at neutral pH, CEA particles consist of homogeneous, morphologically distinctive, twisted rod-shaped particles, about 9 X 40 nm.
(12) RCA-1, which is specific for D-galactose, showed patchy fluorescence on the basal and distal portions of the outer segments of the cones and rods, whereas neuraminidase-treated sections had uniform fluorescence throughout the tissues.
(13) All are satisfied by [Formula: see text], where N is the size of rod signal, constant for threshold; theta, theta(D) are steady backgrounds of light and receptor noise; varphi is the threshold flash with sigma a constant of about 2.5 log td sec; B the fraction of pigment in the bleached state.
(14) The territory’s chief executive Leung Chun-ying, has become a lightning rod for the protesters’ anger .
(15) Beyond intraoperative recognition and removal of the rods, effective strategies to prevent this neuronal loss have yet to be developed.
(16) Sensitivities to gentamicin, sissomicin, tobramycin, and amikacin were compared in 196 gentamicin-resistant Gram-negative rods and in 212 similar organisms sensitive to gentamicin, mainly isolated from clinical specimens.
(17) It should be considered as a causative agent in culture-negative cases of endocarditis and also when a gram-negative rod is isolated which is sensitive to all antibiotics.
(18) Rats permitted to recover for 13 weeks and then sacrificed had lost almost all their rods (p less than 0.001) while the cones were reduced by about 50% (p less than 0.01).
(19) The reports of rod-dominated psychophysical spectral sensitivity from the deprived eye of monocularly lid-sutured (MD) monkeys are intriguing but difficult to reconcile with the absence of any reported deprivation effects in retina.
(20) Rod adaptation had no reliable influence on response to rapid onset in cones or bipolar cells.
Trod
Definition:
(imp.) of Tread
() of Tread
() imp. & p. p. of Tread.
Example Sentences:
(1) Apart from that, nothing much to write home about, except that Whelan was lucky to escape a booking when he trod on Olivier Giroud's ankle and Erik Pieters possibly took the rap a few minutes later, picking up a caution for a less obvious foul on the same player.
(2) Cinematically, RED SORGHUM achieved a fantastically rich colour palette in its politically less-than-correct depiction of Chinese peasant life – blood and earth predominate – and trod a careful political line by focusing on atrocities by the invading Japanese rather than internal repression.
(3) Sir Chris took the side of those who backed the zipwire as a novel and exciting way of attracting new and younger visitors to the fells which William Wordsworth and the 20th century guidebook master Alfred Wainwright trod.
(4) Last year 12 Years a Slave trod this path ; in the past Slumdog Millionaire, The King’s Speech and Argo (which was runner-up to Silver Linings Playbook at Toronto) also followed suit.
(5) For much of the 60s, Fanfani - having failed to become president of the Republic in 1964 - trod water, but always at a high level: he was foreign minister (1965-66), president of the UN assembly (1965), and president of the Senate (first term 1968-73).
(6) In the postgame interviews Cards manager Matheny trod a fine line of disappointment.
(7) Harrison said the BBC's plans trod on the toes of commercial radio stations already broadcasting and investing in local news and content.
(8) 9.21pm BST 79 min: There could have been a few red cards so far in this game, including one just now for Lewandowski, who trod on Boateng's ankle as the defender was grounded after a tackle.
(9) Five minutes later his low cross from the left should have seen Juan Mata open the scoring, yet with only Heaton to beat from close to the penalty spot, the Spain player trod on the ball and ended up on the floor.
(10) The Washington Post trod the same road, and is sold with hope but nil guarantees to a rich man who needs his favours.
(11) Rogers spread his arms in a "you're kidding" gesture that trod the fine line between disbelief and dissent and exchanged words with Bairstow as he returned to the pavilion in one last Ashes spat for the summer.
(12) The band's first release since 1991's classic Loveless trod a familiar path, but it was still one that only they have the map to follow.
(13) The “New Democrats” shifted to the centre, and trod on the toes of the established party leaders.
(14) The technical obstacles which delayed too long the achievement of reasonably safe and anatomically complete resections of lung are discussed, and the circuitous route trod by pioneering surgeons in their struggle toward that desired goal is described.
(15) Many observers say that Humphrey and Yu were prudent, experienced businesspeople, and they were detained because it was likely that their investigation trod on the toes of someone powerful.
(16) The referee Mark Clattenburg had struggled to control order in a bad-tempered game in which there were continual flashpoints, most notably just before half-time when Mousa Dembélé appeared to rake his finger nails across Diego Costa’s eyes and Érik Lamela trod on Cesc Fàbregas’s fingers towards the end.
(17) During the campaign, the magazine trod a fine line, saying she was still working for them but not at editorial conferences or decision-making.
(18) Cameron trod a fine line during his 22-hour visit as he pushed British business interests while raising concerns over human rights.
(19) The novel trod on sensitivities among studio bosses, who were afraid of public attention being drawn to the pervasive Jewish influence in movies.
(20) The time-resolved optical density (TROD) and time-resolved circular dichroism (TRCD) spectra of the lowest triplet state of 4-thiouridine (4t-Urd) in aqueous solutions of tRNA are reported.