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Meaning of Cod | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2 Standard
kɒd

Definitions

  1. Acronym of Concise Oxford Dictionary.
    abbreviation, acronym, alt-of
  2. Initialism of cash on delivery or collect on delivery.
    abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable
  3. A type of sea fish or the meat from said fish.
  4. An Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua).
  5. Alternative letter-case form of COD (“Call of Duty”).
    alt-of
  6. A small bag or pouch.
    obsolete
  7. A joke or an imitation.
  8. Acronym of Call of Duty.
    abbreviation, acronym, alt-of
  9. Initialism of cause of death.
    abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism
  10. A sea fish of the genus Gadus generally, inclusive of Pacific cod (Gadus macrocephalus) and Greenland cod (Gadus ogac or Gadus macrocephalus ogac).
  11. A husk or integument; a pod.
    UK, obsolete
  12. A stupid or foolish person.
  13. Initialism of cerebro-ocular dysgenesis.
    abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
  14. A sea fish of the family Gadidae which are sold as "cod", as haddock (Melanogrammus aeglefinus), and whiting (usually Merlangius merlangus).
  15. The cocoon of a silkworm.
  16. Initialism of celebrity obsession disorder.
    abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
  17. Other not closely related fish which are similarly important to regional fisheries, as the hapuku and cultus cod.
    informal, usually
  18. The scrotum.
    also, archaic, in-plural
  19. Other not closely related fish which resemble the Atlantic cod, such as the rock cod (Lotella rhacina) and blue cod (Parapercis colias).
    informal, usually
  20. A pillow or cushion.
    Scotland, UK, dialectal, obsolete

Equivalents

Български треска
Català bacallà
Čeština treska
Cymraeg cod penfras
Dansk torsk
Esperanto moruo
Español bacalao
Eesti tursk
Euskara bakailao
فارسی کیسه
Français cabillaud COD morue
Gaeilge trosc
Gàidhlig bodach trosg
Galego bacallau
ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi pakaliao
Magyar tőkehal
Հայերեն ձողաձուկ
Íslenska þorskur
Italiano merluzzo
日本語
ქართული ვირთევზა
Қазақша сетінек
한국어 대구
Lietuvių menkė
Latviešu menca
Македонски бакалар
Nederlands kabeljauw
Português bacalhau
Română cod
Русский треска
Slovenščina polenovka trska
Svenska torsk
ไทย ค็อด
Tagalog bakalaw
Türkçe morina
Українська тріска
Tiếng Việt cá tuyết

Examples

“There is a Cod, or Bag, that groweth commonly in the Fields;”
“The Bunt is to a Sail,[The Bunt of a Sail.] as the Cod to a Net, being the very Pouch, or Bag of the Sail; and therefore all Sails have this Bunt,”
“Perspective view of the gear, showing important parts: b, beam; bl. belly; br, brail; bt, bating; c cod end, or bag;”
“And he wolde fayne have filled his bely with the coddes, that the swyne ate: and noo man gave hym.”
“and I remember the wooing of a peascod instead of her, from whom I tooke two cods, and giuing her them againe, said with weeping teares, weare these for my sake: wee that are true Louers, runne into strange capers; but as all is mortall in nature, so is all nature in loue, mortall in folly.”
“1. Colutæa vesicaria vulgaris sylvestris. Ordinary Bastard Sene with bladders. This greater Bastard Sene groweth in time to be a tree of a reasonable greatnesse, the stem or trunck being of the bignesse of a mans arme or greater, covered with a blackish greene ragged barke, the wood whereof is harder then of an Elder, but with a pith in the middle of the branches which are divided many wayes, having divers winged leaves composed of many small round pointed or rather flat pointed leaves, set at severall distances, and somewhat like unto Licoris, or the Hatchet fitch, among which come forth yellow flowers like unto Broome flowers and as large; after which come thinne swelling cods, like unto thinne transparent bladders; wherein are conteined blacke seede set upon a middle ribbe within the bladders, which being alittle crushed betweene the fingers, will give a cracke like a bladder full of winde: the roote groweth great and wooddy, branching forth divers wayes.”
“its Cods are very crooked and ill ſhaped”
“As soon as it is arrived at the size and strength necessary for the beginning its cod, it makes its web; this is his first day's employment; on the second he forms his cod, and covers himself almost over with silk; the third day he is quite hid; and the following days employs himself in thickening and strengthening his cod; always working from one single end, which he never breaks himself; and which is so fine, and so long, that those who have nicely examin'd it affirm, that each cod contains silk enough to reach the length of six English miles.”
“In seven days, the cods being finished, they are gathered and laid inheaps till they have time to wind off the silk: But they first set apart the cods designed for propagation, upon a hurdle in a cool airy place.”
“The whole moth kind, as well as the silkworm, immediately before their transformation into the chrysalis state, cover their bodies with a cod or clew of silk , though the nature of the silk , and their mode of spinning, are very different.”
“that which we call castoreum […] are not the same to be termed testicles or stones; for these cods or follicles are found in both sexes, though somewhat more protuberant in the male.”
“Then let the cutter take and hold the tip of his cod in his left hand, and with a sharp knife cut the top thereof an inch long clean away.”
“I went on one knee and thrust up and into his cod.”
“Starmara made a muffled sound that might have been a bleat of alarm or might have merely been an expression of disgust, but revealed to her from-the-floor gaze was a leather cod of weary age and condition, below a long, continuous coil of coarse rope that had been wound round and round the merchant's hips, adding noticeably to his impressive girth—which shrank rapidly as the merchant tugged, hauled on the rope, then began a ponderous imitation of a dancing-lass undulating on a pedestal at a revel, shedding coils around his feet with a clumsiness that made Surth sigh and Starmara suddenly want to laugh.”
“Provost Maccalzean, with the silver keys in his hand, and the eldest bailie with the crimson-velvet cod, whereon they were to be delivered to her Majesty, following as fast as any member of a city corporation could be reasonably be expected to do.”
“Item , ane long velvet cod or cusheon ;”
“Elizabeth Pitt, wife of Thomas Pitt of Haldon, clothier, Elizabeth Clerke of the same, spinster, and Jane Topliffe, wife of James Topliffe of the same, laborer, for stealing there on 1ˢᵗ Nov., 1640, a petticoat (parvacidam) value 4s., two children's coats value 2s., a feather bed cod value 2s., the property of Richard Bradley.”
“I assume it all could just be a cod.”
“He's making a right cod of himself.”
“Let's go over to my house and play some COD.”
“This development would probably be much facilitated were the Colony to adopt the C.O.D. (collect on delivery) system of the Cape and many other parts of the world.”

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