Cod and Affect

noun

• The vessel that contains the seeds of a plant (not the seeds themselves.
  • synonyms: pod, seedcase
• Lean white flesh of important North Atlantic food fish; usually baked or poached.
  • synonyms: codfish
• Major food fish of Arctic and cold-temperate waters.
  • synonyms: codfish

verb

• Fool or hoax.
  • usage: "The immigrant was duped because he trusted everyone"; "You can't fool me"
  • synonyms: gull, dupe, slang, befool, fool, put on, take in, put one over, put one across
• Harass with persistent criticism or carping.
  • usage: "The children teased the new teacher"; "Don't ride me so hard over my failure"; "His fellow workers razzed him when he wore a jacket and tie"
  • synonyms: tease, razz, rag, tantalize, tantalise, bait, taunt, twit, rally, ride

adjective

• Payable by the recipient on delivery.
  • usage: "a collect call"; "the letter came collect"; "a COD parcel"
  • synonyms: collect

adverb

• Collecting the charges upon delivery.
  • usage: "mail a package C. O. D."
  • synonyms: C. O. D., cash on delivery

• (n.) The scrotum.
• (n.) A small bag or pouch.
• (n.) A husk; a pod; as, a peascod.
• (n.) 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.
• (n.) A pillow or cushion.

COD is Cash On Delivery; which is exactly what it means.

noun

• The conscious subjective aspect of feeling or emotion.

verb

• Have an effect upon.
  • usage: "Will the new rules affect me"
  • synonyms: impact, bear upon, bear on, touch on, touch
• Act physically on; have an effect upon.
  • usage: "the medicine affects my heart rate"
• Connect closely and often incriminatingly.
  • usage: "This new ruling affects your business"
  • synonyms: involve, regard
• Make believe with the intent to deceive.
  • usage: "He feigned that he was ill"; "He shammed a headache"
  • synonyms: feign, sham, pretend, dissemble
• Have an emotional or cognitive impact upon.
  • usage: "This child impressed me as unusually mature"; "This behavior struck me as odd"
  • synonyms: impress, move, strike

• (v.t.) To act upon; to produce an effect or change upon.
• (v.t.) To love; to regard with affection.
• (v.t.) To influence or move, as the feelings or passions; to touch.
• (v.t.) To assign; to appoint.
• (v.t.) To make a show of; to put on a pretense of; to feign; to assume; as, to affect ignorance.
• (n.) Affection; inclination; passion; feeling; disposition.
• (v.t.) To show a fondness for; to like to use or practice; to choose; hence, to frequent habitually.
• (v.t.) To dispose or incline.
• (v.t.) To tend to by affinity or disposition.
• (v.t.) To aim at; to aspire; to covet.
• (n.) The emotional complex associated with an idea or mental state. In hysteria, the affect is sometimes entirely dissociated, sometimes transferred to another than the original idea.