COD

Definition: COD

COD

Noun

1. An important edible fish (Gadus morrhua), taken in immense numbers on the northern coasts of Europe and America. It is especially abundant and large on the Grand Bank of Newfoundland. It is salted and dried in large quantities.

2. A pillow or cushion.

3. The scrotum.

4. A small bag or pouch.

5. A husk; a pod; as, a peascod.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "COD" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

Agriculture

Shipping

Slang in 1811

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Covering

Capsule; sheath, sheathing; pod, cod; casing, case, theca; elytron; elytrum; involucrum; wrapping, wrapper; envelope, vesicle; corn husk, corn shuck; dermatology, conchology; testaceology.

Crosswords: COD

Portuguese (dissolved organic carbon), Portuguese Brazilian (cod), Romanian (cipher, cod, code, key, statute book), Welsh (bag, pouch).

Now, if the people can't swim here, they'll be glad to swim at the beaches of Cape Cod, the Hamptons, Long Island (Jaws; writing credit: Peter Benchley; Carl Gottlieb)

Salt Cod (1954)

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References

• The World Market for Fresh or Chilled Cod Excluding Livers and Roes: A 2004 Global Trade Perspective (reference)

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Books

• 50 Hikes in Massachusetts: A Year-Round Guide to Hikes and Walks from the Top of the Berkshires to the Tip of Cape Cod (50 Hikes in Massachusetts, 3r (reference)

• A Book of Cape Cod Houses (reference)

• Haunted Cape Cod & the Islands (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Cape Cod & Islands Home (reference)

• Cape Cod Life (reference)

• Cape Cod News (reference)

• Cape Cod Times (reference)

• Environment Cape Cod (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Cape Cod - Then & Now (reference)

• Fly Fishing Video Magazine Vol. 49 Stripers on the Flats of Cape Cod (reference)

• Orvis Hooked On Fly Fishing, OCC Striped Bass in Cape Cod, MA (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Nat'l Park Adventures: Cape Cod Nat'l Seashore (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Private Page Tone/vibrate Page VP201TONE/VIBRATE Pager: 10 Cod (reference)

• Cod 12moscandisinfect [DOWNLOAD] (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

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Cape Cod, MA -1. Credit: NASA.

Provincetown Harbor, Cape Cod Original survey 1848, resurvey of high-water line in 1857 Topographic Survey T-616. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Humpback whale off Cape Cod Waving good-bye at the end of an idyllic day. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Wellfleet Harbor as seen from the north. Wellfleet is on Cape Cod. In: Historical Collections ... of Every Town in Massachusetts. 1841. Credit: America's Coastlines.

View from the northeastern edge of Provincetown. The windmills were used in the the production of salt. The high sand dunes added to the unique appearance of this Cape Cod town. In: Historical Collections ... of Every Town in Massachusetts. 1841. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Fishing for Antarctic cod. These fish are studied because they do not freeze even though human flesh would freeze in Antarctic sea temperatures. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

A five-foot Antarctic cod. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

A bird's eye view of a passing hydrofoil and most of the netting complex. The mouth of the trap and the cod end extending landward can be clearly seen. Credit: Fisheries.

School of black-fish stranded on the shore of Cape Cod, Massachusetts. In: "Aquatic Products in Arts and Industries" by Charles H. Stevenson. Report of the Commissioner for the Year Ending June 30, 1902. P. 208, Plate 15. Credit: Fisheries.

Lobster tangled in a gillnet intended to capture cod and other groundfish. Homarus americanus. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP).

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

It was only for cod.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Sources of vitamin D, besides supplements, include sunlight, vitamin D-fortified liquid dairy products, cod liver oil, and fatty fish. Calcium and vitamin D need not be taken together to be effective. (references)

Business

Cod liver oil is the No. 1 nutritional supplement sold in the United Kingdom, accounting for almost 26 percent of the total market. (references)

Due to difficulties meeting the new COD 100 mg/L standard, the petrochemical industry is also lobbying the TEPA to use different sampling techniques to account for effluent spikes. (references)

Nevertheless, a market for specialized products, such as cod or other fish, gourmet foods and upscale products (in other words, goods that cannot be economically produced in Argentina) would continue to exist. (references)

Economic History

Denmark

Greenland's shrimp fishery is by far the largest income earner, since cod catches have dropped to historically low levels. (references)

China

Much of the pollock and cod imported are for processing and re-export, although a significant quantity remains in China for domestic consumption. (references)

Namibia

The principal opposition parties are the Congress of Democracies (COD) and the Democratic Turnhalle Alliance (DTA), with each possessing seven seats in the National Assembly. (references)

Human Rights

Namibia

For example, on June 1, Khoe San leader Thadeus Chedau sued and was awarded damages of approximately $2,000 (N$23,000) for his arrest in 2000. In 2000 a group of Angolan and Congolese refugee musicians were arrested for performing at a Congress of Democrats (COD) rally. (references)

Political Rights

Namibia

In the National Assembly, 4 opposition parties won a total of 17 seats, including the COD party, which won the largest number of opposition votes; the Democratic Turnhalle Alliance (DTA); the United Democratic Front; and the Monitor Action Group. (references)

Namibia

In 1999 Ben Ulenga, former High Commissioner to the United Kingdom and a high-level ruling official, formed the COD opposition party, in part as a response to the amending of the Constitution to allow a third term, and in the general election the COD won approximately 10 percent of the vote and seven seats in the National Assembly. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "COD": Alaska cod ♦ Atlantic cod ♦ bank cod ♦ Blue cod ♦ Buffalo cod ♦ Cape Cod ♦ Cape Cod Bay ♦ cash cod ♦ cod fish ♦ Cod fishery ♦ Cod line ♦ cod liver ♦ cod liver oil ♦ cod oil ♦ Cultus cod ♦ cured cod ♦ dried cod ♦ jaffa cod ♦ Pacific cod ♦ power cod ♦ red cod ♦ rock cod ♦ salt cod ♦ shore cod ♦ trouser cod end. Additional references.

Beginning with "COD": cod-acting, cod-almighty, Cod-broadway, cod-erudite, cod-flamenco, cod-goods, cod-japanese, cod-like, cod-liver, Cod-liver oil, cod-meal, cod-military, cod-operatic, cod-parcel, cod-piece.

Afrikaans

kabeljou (codfish). (various references)

Albanian

merluc (codfish, haddock, red cod, whiting). (various references)

Arabic 

‏سمك القد, ‏بقلة سمك. (various references)

Bavarian

kabeljau (codfish). (various references)

Bulgarian 

треска (ague, chip, codfish, coding, fever, fire, pyrexia, shiver, sliver, splint, the shakes), глупости (all my eye, applesauce, balderdash, baloney, blague, blah, bleat, blether, boloney, bosh, bull, buncombe, crap, drivel, eyewash, fiddle-faddle, fiddlesticks, flapdoodle, footle, fudge, guff, gup, hokum, humbug, jiggery pokery, junk, kibosh, monkey business, monkeybusiness, nonsense, nuts, piffle, poppycock, punk, rhubarb, rot, rubbish, shucks, slush, stuff and nonsense, tack, tommy rot, truck, trumpery). (various references)

Chinese 

鳕鱼. (various references)

Cornish

barfüs. (various references)

Czech

treska (codfish, stockfish, whiting). (various references)

Danish

torsk (codfish). (various references)

Dutch

kabeljauw (codfish). (various references)

Esperanto

moruo (codfish). (various references)

Faeroese

turrur fiskur (codfish), toskur (codfish). (various references)

Farsi 

فضای داخل خلیج یادریاچه , پوسته (Case, Chaff, Cortex, Membrane, Shuck), چنته (Bag, Knapsack, Pouch), نوعی ماهی , کیسه کوچک (Pouch, Vesicle), کیسه (Bag, Bung, Capsule, Cyst, Pouch, Purse, Sack, Sinus), غلاف سبوس . (various references)

Finnish

turska (Atlantic cod, codfish, codling). (various references)

French

morue (codfish). (various references)

French Canadian

morue. (various references)

Frisian

kabeljau (codfish). (various references)

German

Kabeljau (codfish), dorsch (codfish, rock salmon). (various references)

Greek 

γάδοσ, βακαλάοσ (haddock), βακαλάος, μπακαλιάροσ (haddock, hake), μπακαλιάρος (haddock), μπακαλάος (salted codfish), μουρούνα (blue ling, sturgeon). (various references)

Hungarian

héj (carapace, crust, Hull, husk, jacket, peel, rind, scale, shell, shuck, skin). (various references)

Icelandic

þorskur (codfish). (various references)

Inuktitut

uugaq. (various references)

Irish

trosc (codfish). (various references)

Italian

merluzzo (codfish). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

鱈 (codfish). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

たら (codfish, Tara). (various references)

Korean 

대구 (coalfish, Taegu). (various references)

Manx

giare-voiddagh (codling), boiddagh. (various references)

Norwegian

torsk (codfish). (various references)

Papiamen

bakiou (codfish), bakalou (codfish). (various references)

Pig Latin

odcay.(various references)

Portuguese

bacalhau (codfish). (various references)

Portuguese Brazilian

cod, bacalhau. (various references)

Romanian

cod (cipher, code, key, statute book), batog. (various references)

Russian 

стручок (follicle, pod), треска наложенным платежом, треска (codfish). (various references)

Scottish

peileid (a slap on the head). (various references)

Sepedi

hlapi (fish). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

bakalar (codfish, haddock, stockfish). (various references)

Spanish

bacalao (codfish). (various references)

Swedish

torsk (codfish, thrush). (various references)

Thai

ถุงอัณฑะ, ถุง, ล้อเล่น (jape), ปลาคอด. (various references)

Turkish

sazanlamak (hoax, spoof), morina (beluga, codfish), işletmek (actuate, bamboozle, befool, control, dupe, exploit, hoax, hornswoggle, keep, kid, manage, operate, ply, pull smb.'s leg, run, run the show, spoof, work), dalga geçmek (gibe, jape, jeer, jibe, kid, make fun of, make merry over, monkey around, pull smb.'s leg, rag, razz, rib, ridicule, scoff, send up). (various references)

Ukrainian

тріска (chip, codfish, haddock, sliver, splinter), обдурювати (befool, bilk, cheat, chouse, cog, counterfeit, deceive, doodle, dupe, flimflam, gull, hoax, hocus, hoodwink, humbug, jockey, juggle, prey, put upon, queer, sell short), мішок (bag, purse, sack), лушпайка (aril, husk), ловити тріску, лантух (bag, sack), подушка (chock, pad, pillow). (various references)

Vietnamese 

dầu gan cá moruy (cod-liver oil). (various references)

Gadus callarias, Gadus morhua, Gadus morhua (Linnaeus), Gadus morhua Linnaeus, Gadus morrhua. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "COD": coda, codable, codas, codded, codder, codders, codding, coddle, coddled, coddler, coddlers, coddles, coddling, code, codebook, codebooks, codebtor, codebtors, codec, codecs, coded, codefendant, codefendants, codeia, codeias, codein, codeina, codeinas, codeine, codeines, codeins, codeless, coden, codens, codependence, codependences, codependencies, codependency, codependent, codependents, coder, coderive, coderived, coderives, coderiving, coders, codes, codesign, codesigned, codesigning, codesigns. (additional references)

Words ending with "COD": lingcod, ostracod, peascod, peasecod, tomcod. (additional references)

Words containing "COD": anticodon, anticodons, cacodemon, cacodemonic, cacodemons, cacodyl, cacodyls, crocodile, crocodiles, crocodilian, crocodilians, decode, decoded, decoder, decoders, decodes, decoding, encode, encoded, encoder, encoders, encodes, encoding, lingcods, microcode, microcodes, miscode, miscoded, miscodes, miscoding, mollycoddle, mollycoddled, mollycoddler, mollycoddlers, mollycoddles, mollycoddling, ostracode, ostracoderm, ostracoderms, ostracodes, ostracods, peascods, peasecods, pharmacodynamic, pharmacodynamically, pharmacodynamics, postcode, postcodes, precode, precoded, precodes. (additional references)

Misspellings

"COD" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: acod, cbd, ccd, cd, cdd, Cdo, cdp, cdt, ced, Cedf, cedm, chod, chohd, Cibd, cidd, Cidg, ciod, cjd, ckd, cld, cmod, coad, coc, codd, codi, codo, cof, Coid, coj, cond, cood, copd, cosd, cou, coud, cov, cowd, cpd, cqd, crd, crod, crood, csd, ctd, cudo, cvd, cvo, cyd, Mcsod, ocd, od, Pcdob, vod, yod. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: doc.

-1 letter: do, od.

+1 letter: clod, coda, code, cods, coed, cold, cord, deco, dock, docs, odic.

+2 letters: acold, chord, clods, cloud, codas, codec, coded, coden, coder, codes, codex, codon, coeds, coked, colds, coled, condo, coned, cooed, coped, cords, cored, coted, coude, could, coved, cowed, coxed, coyed, credo, crowd, decor, decos, decoy, dicot, disco, docks, dolce, dolci, domic, douce, duroc, iodic, octad, scold, scrod, scudo, sodic.