Rod
Part of speech: noun
Definition: A straight, round stick, shaft, bar, cane, or staff. A long slender usually tapering pole used for angling; fishing rod. A stick, pole, or bundle of switches or twigs (such as a birch), used for personal defense or to administer corporal punishment by whipping. 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. 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. A unit of length. Equal to a pole, a perch, ¼ chain, 5½ yards, 16½ feet, or exactly 5.0292 meters. 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, 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, 5½ yards. A unit of area equal to a square rod, 30¼ square yards or 1/160 acre. 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. Short for rod cell, a rod-shaped cell in the eye that is sensitive to light. Any of a number of long, slender microorganisms. 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. A pistol; a gun. A penis; the male rod. 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.
Example sentence: Some people have a tendency to get knocked down in this business and sulk and whine, and they just create a rod for their back, really. You have to have broad shoulders and get through it.
Perch
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To rest on a perch; to roost.To stay in an elevated position.To place something on (or as if on) a perch.
Part of speech: noun
Definition: Any of the three species of spiny-finned freshwater fish in the genus Perca.Any of the about 200 related species of fish in the taxonomic family Percidae.Several similar species in the order Perciformes, such as the grouper.a rod, staff, or branch of a tree etc used as a roost by a birda position that is secure and advantageous, especially one which is prominent or elevateda linear measure of 5.5 yards, equal to a rod, a pole, ¼ chain or 5½ yards; the related square measurea cubic measure of stonework equal to 16.6 x 1.5 x 1 feeta frame used to examine cloth