noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a curtain rail/pole/rod (= a long stick for hanging a curtain )
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Velvet can be heavy so choose a strong curtain pole.
divining rod (= the stick used for this )
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a divining rod
dowsing rod
fishing rod
hot rod
lightning rod
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The senator has become a lightning rod for criticism.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
fishing
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The bomb and the bullet of course provide more dramatic reportage than hard graft, the golf club and fishing rod .
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He chose to use sailmakers' ripstop nylon and tapered fishing rod units in glass fibre.
hot
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Some of them even made enough to run hot rod cars.
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The owners of low-riders and hot rods came from all over to show off their vehicles.
thin
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Your hairdresser takes sections of your hair - some are wound around thin rods and thick rods while others are left untreated.
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Very thin rods of glass are enclosed in a tube.
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These experiments involved thin rods of palladium and formed the bulk of the data in the paper of March 1989.
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Trailing edge vibration has been dampened by reinforcement with thin glass fibre rod inserts or mylar overlays, so eliminating excessive noise.
wooden
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There is also a matrix of wooden rods , metal pipes, and other objects in various configurations and depths.
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The hangers draped down in rows from horizontal wooden rods , the blooms pointing toward the floor.
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He hugged the banister, counting its bar-like wooden rods until he reached the turn where it met the wall.
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The wooden stemming rod was clearly safer, yet in every mining district there were those who disregarded the new rulings.
■ NOUN
fuel
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A Green Party spokesman said that spent fuel rods are highly radioactive and potentially lethal.
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The stuck fuel rods had cooled to about 200 degrees from their 1, 200-degree operating temperature.
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I agreed to get photos of the fuel rods for the Union in Washington.
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Bailey said that if even one of the fuel rods leaks, Palo Verde officials would put the plant on alert.
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We put uranium into the fuel rods .
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Officials hope to avoid rupturing any fuel rods , which could release deadly radioactive gas into the containment building.
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After three years' work the last consignment of nuclear fuel rods has been removed.
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She allegedly had evidence that the plant was falsifying records to hide cracks in fuel rods .
iron
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Each side has a cast iron arch in 7 segments from which the iron trough is hung by 35 wrought iron rods .
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It led to the birth of the jumper a slender iron rod with a chisel-end forged by the mine smiths.
lightning
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One of the summer associates in another firm told me that a partner there had proved a real lightning rod for trouble.
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Since then, she has become a lightning rod for a national debate on immigration.
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It was like a lightning rod that drew to itself all the negative impulses of a hyperactive time.
metal
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On the left was the privy, covered by a curtain which hung from a metal rod .
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I kept it up now for twenty minutes as Janir gripped the linked metal rods supporting his seat.
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This time it was a piece of wire mesh on a metal rod .
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He pressed himself against a metal rod .
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When nothing happened he remembered the short metal rod Father Conroy had given him.
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They dropped down wearily on metal rods .
■ VERB
divine
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You can still divine water with a rod and be an agnostic.
fish
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Schools clothing grant giro, my medical card, fishing rods , my son's snooker cue all stolen.
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The challenge was to find domestic workers who would help the supplier set up an assembly line for fishing rods .
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Paige never followed through on his promise to give Baker a fishing rod .
hold
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Alternatively hold a rod or ruler across the neck while the tail is pulled.
spend
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After they are replaced, the spent fuel rods are cooled for several years in pools of water at the plants.
use
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Some anglers use three rods , but I have found that at least one of these tends to be neglected.
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Charlie plays with a few fish using his fly rod .
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I was using stiffer rods and he was using softer ones.
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All our children learned to fish, using this wonderful rod .
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The absence of the bumble bee meant that pollination had to be carried out artificially, using an electronic vibrating rod .
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The latter is calibrated in centimetres, but most people will probably only use the rod as a rough guide.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
rule sb/sth with a rod of iron
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a curtain rod
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a fishing rod
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A further use of carbon rod is for sail battens to control flutter, or to improve sail shape.
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As is the norm with most modern acoustics, the truss rod is again adjusted from inside the soundhole.
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He fails to make it, for I make an equally massive surge with the rod in the opposite direction.
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He was adept with his hands, a talented artist, and a skilled fisherman who made his own flies and rods.
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Samples can be hung on a rod , in slotted pockets or placed on a lectern.
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The rods are held by tapered sections connected to the bottom boom of the gable frame.
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The central rod is known as the Sushumna and corresponds to the spinal column.
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The organization quickly built the largest membership of any rod and gun club in Arizona.