Rod, Ror, Ród, Rőd, Rød, Röd, ROD, or R.O.D. may refer to:

Devices

* Birch rod, made out of twigs from birch or other trees for corporal punishment *

Ceremonial rod A staff of office is a staff, the carrying of which often denotes an official's position, a social rank or a degree of social prestige. Apart from the ecclesiastical and ceremonial usages mentioned below, there are less formal usages. A gold- or ...

, used to indicate a position of authority * Connecting rod, main, coupling, or side rod, in a reciprocating engine * Control rod, used to control the rate of fission in a nuclear reactor *

Divining rod Dowsing is a type of divination employed in attempts to locate ground water, buried metals or ores, gemstones, oil, claimed radiations ( radiesthesia),As translated from one preface of the Kassel experiments, "roughly 10,000 active dowsers in ...

, two rods believed by some to find water in a practice known as dowsing * Fishing rod, a tool used to catch fish, like a long pole with a hook on the end *

Lightning rod A lightning rod or lightning conductor (British English) is a metal rod mounted on a structure and intended to protect the structure from a lightning strike. If lightning hits the structure, it will preferentially strike the rod and be conducte ...

, a conductor on top of a building to protect the building in the event of lightning by taking the charge harmlessly to earth *

Measuring rod A measuring rod is a tool used to physically measure lengths and survey areas of various sizes. Most measuring rods are round or square sectioned; however, they can also be flat boards. Some have markings at regular intervals. It is likely th ...

, a kind of ruler * Switch (corporal punishment), a piece of wood as used as a staff or for corporal punishment, or a bundle of such switches *

Truss rod The truss rod is a component of a guitar or other stringed instrument that stabilizes the lengthwise forward curvature (also called ''relief'') of the neck. Usually, it is a steel bar or rod that runs through the inside of the neck, beneath the fi ...

, a steel part inside a guitar neck used for its tension adjustment

Arts and entertainment

* ''

Read or Die is a Japanese light novel series written by Hideyuki Kurata, published under Shueisha's '' Super Dash Bunko'' imprint. ''Read or Die'' follows Yomiko Readman, codename "The Paper", an agent for the (fictional) Special Operations Division ...

'', a Japanese anime and manga ** ''Read or Die'' (OVA), an original video animation based on the manga ** '' Read or Dream'', a manga set in the ''Read or Die'' universe ** '' R.O.D the TV'', a 26-episode anime series * '' Röd'', a 2009 album by Swedish band Kent * Rod Norman, a character in the soap opera ''EastEnders'' * Rod (''Avenue Q''), a character in the stage musical ''Avenue Q'' *

Rod Flanders The American animated television series ''The Simpsons'' contains a wide range of minor and supporting characters like co-workers, teachers, students, family friends, extended relatives, townspeople, local celebrities, and even animals. The writ ...

, a character in the TV series ''The Simpsons'' * "R.O.D.", a 2013 song by Korean rapper G-Dragon featured on his second studio album '' Coup d'Etat''

People

* Rod (given name) *

Rod (surname) Rod or Rød is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Edouard Rod (1857–1910), French-Swiss novelist * Johnny Rod (born 1957), American bass guitar player See also * Rød (surname) * Rodd Rodd is a surname and may refer to: * ...

* Rød (surname) *

Dalel Singh Ror Dalel Singh Ror is an Indian volleyball player who received one of the country's highest sporting honors, the Arjuna Award, in 1990. Dalel Singh was born on 10 June 1956 into a Ror family of Amin village near Kurukshetra, in Haryana Harya ...

Places

* Ród, a village in Tilişca Commune, Sibiu County, Romania *

Rød (disambiguation) Rød is the Norwegian and Danish word for the color "red". It is also a shortened version of the Norwegian dialect word ''røddning'' (or ''rødning''), meaning a cleared place. Rød may also refer to: People * Rød (surname), a list of many pe ...

, several populated places in Norway * Rőd, Aiton, from the Hungarian name for Rediu, a village in Aiton Commune, Cluj County, Romania * Rod, California, a former settlement in Kern County * Rod (river), a tributary of the Apold in Sibiu County, Romania

Science and technology

* Cuisenaire rods, to teach children arithmetics * Rod-shaped bacterium, a shape of bacteria such as ''E. coli'' * Rod (optical phenomenon), a photographic artifact claimed by some to be alien life * Rod (unit), an Imperial unit of length, also known as the ''pole'' or ''perch'' * Rod cell, a cell found in the retina that is sensitive to light/dark (black/white) *

Real-time outbreak and disease surveillance Real-time outbreak and disease surveillance system (RODS) is a syndromic surveillance system developed by the University of Pittsburgh, Department of Biomedical Informatics. It is "prototype developed at the University of Pittsburgh where real-t ...

(RODS) * rod, ISO 639-3 code for the Rogo language of Nigeria *

Rate of descent In aeronautics, the rate of climb (RoC) is an aircraft's vertical speed, that is the positive or negative rate of altitude change with respect to time. In most ICAO member countries, even in otherwise metric countries, this is usually expressed ...

(RoD), a measurement in aviation.

Other uses

Ror Ror is a caste found primarily in Haryana and Uttar Pradesh. In the parts of Baiswara in Uttar Pradesh that are inhabited by Ror people, Rors along with groups such as the Chauhans and Tomars are associated with Delhi and its outskirts. Occu ...

is a Pure Hindu Kshatriya Indian Caste. *

Railway Operating Division The Railway Operating Division (ROD) was a division of the Royal Engineers formed in 1915 to operate railways in the many theatres of the First World War. It was largely composed of railway employees and operated both standard gauge and narrow g ...

, a division of the British Army's Royal Engineers * Record of Decision, a formal decision document issued by the United States government *

Rod (god) In the pre-Christian religion of Eastern and Southern Slavs, Rod (Slovenian, Croatian: Rod, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Russian, Serbian Cyrillic: Род, Ukrainian Cyrillic: Рід) is the god of the family, ancestors and fate, perh ...

, a Slavic creator god *

Rods (tarot suit) The Suit of Wands is one of four suits in tarot, collectively known as the Minor Arcana. Like the other tarot suits, the suit of wands contains fourteen cards: ace (one), two through ten, page and knight (sometimes referred to as princess and princ ...

* Roughly Obsess and Destroy, a professional wrestling stable * A dowel * A firearm