[
  {
    "word": "rod",
    "phonetic": "/\u0279\u0252d/",
    "phonetics": [
      {
        "text": "/\u0279\u0252d/",
        "audio": ""
      },
      {
        "text": "/\u0279\u0251d/",
        "audio": "https://api.dictionaryapi.dev/media/pronunciations/en/rod-us.mp3",
        "sourceUrl": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=424790",
        "license": {
          "name": "BY-SA 3.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0"
        }
      }
    ],
    "meanings": [
      {
        "partOfSpeech": "noun",
        "definitions": [
          {
            "definition": "A straight, round stick, shaft, bar, cane, or staff.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "A longitudinal pole used for forming part of a framework such as an awning or tent.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "A long slender usually tapering pole used for angling; fishing rod.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "When I hooked a snake and not a fish, I got so scared I dropped my rod in the water."
          },
          {
            "definition": "A stick, pole, or bundle of switches or twigs (such as a birch), used for personal defense or to administer corporal punishment by whipping.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "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.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "The judge imposed on the thief a sentence of fifteen strokes with the rod."
          },
          {
            "definition": "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.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "I notched a rod and used it to measure the length of rope to cut."
          },
          {
            "definition": "A unit of length equal to 1 pole, a perch, 1/4 chain, 5 1/2 yards, 16 1/2 feet, or exactly 5.0292 meters (these being all equivalent).",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "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, 5 1/2 yards.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "A unit of area equal to a square rod, 30 1/4 square yards or 1/160 acre.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "The house had a small yard of about six rods in size."
          },
          {
            "definition": "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.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "The engine threw a rod, and then went to pieces before our eyes, springs and coils shooting in all directions."
          },
          {
            "definition": "A rod cell: a rod-shaped cell in the eye that is sensitive to light.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "The rods are more sensitive than the cones, but do not discern color."
          },
          {
            "definition": "Any of a number of long, slender microorganisms.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "He applied a gram positive stain, looking for rods indicative of Listeria."
          },
          {
            "definition": "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.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "A pistol; a gun.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "A penis.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "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.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "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.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "A Cuisenaire rod.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "A coupling rod or connecting rod, which links the driving wheels of a steam locomotive.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          }
        ],
        "synonyms": [
          "skyfish"
        ],
        "antonyms": []
      },
      {
        "partOfSpeech": "verb",
        "definitions": [
          {
            "definition": "To reinforce concrete with metal rods.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "To furnish with rods, especially lightning rods.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "To penetrate sexually.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "To hot rod.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          }
        ],
        "synonyms": [],
        "antonyms": []
      }
    ],
    "license": {
      "name": "CC BY-SA 3.0",
      "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0"
    },
    "sourceUrls": [
      "https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/rod"
    ]
  }
]