nod
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
Etymology: From Middle English nodden, probably from an unrecorded Old English *hnodian (“to nod, shake the head”), from Proto-West Germanic *hnodōn, from Proto-Germanic *hnudōną (“to beat, rivet, pound, push”), from Proto-Indo-European *kendʰ-, from *ken- (“to scratch, scrape, rub”). Compare Old High German hnotōn (“to shake”), hnutten (“to shake, rattle, vibrate”) (> modern dialectal German notteln, nütteln (“to rock, move back and forth”)), Faroese njóða (“to clench a nail”), Icelandic hnjóða (“to rivet, clinch”), Faroese noða (“to double by bending”), Icelandic hnoða (“to clinch, rivet”).
Inflected forms:
form: nods
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: nodding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: nodded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: nodded
pos: verb
tags: past
form: nods
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To incline the head up and down, as to indicate agreement.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: ‘She has big breasts’, Chuck said. ‘Who? Patty? Oh yes.’ Hentman nodded. ‘Well, it’s that operation they give in Hollywood and New York. It’s more the rage now than the dilation, and she’s had that done, too.’
gloss: To briefly incline the head downwards as a cursory greeting.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
gloss: To sway, move up and down.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: By every wind that nods the mountain pine.
Frail snowdrops that together cling / and nod their helmets, smitten by the wing / of many a furious whirl-blast sweeping by.
gloss: To gradually fall asleep.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To signify by a nod.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: They nodded their assent.
gloss: To make a mistake by being temporarily inattentive or tired
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Even Homer nods.
gloss: To head; to strike the ball with one's head.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
examples: Jones nods the ball back to his goalkeeper.
With the hosts not able to find their passes - everything that went forward was too heavy or too short - Terry once again had to come to his side's rescue after Davies had brilliantly nodded into the path of Elmander, who followed up swiftly with a deflected shot.
gloss: To allude to something.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
intransitive
examples: Though the title nods to the Italian neo-realist classic Bicycle Thieves—and Cyril, much like the father and son in that movie, spends much of his time tracking down the oft-stolen possession—The Kid With A Bike isn’t about the bike as something essential to his livelihood, but as his sole connection to the freedom and play of childhood itself.
gloss: To fall asleep while under the influence of opiates.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
slang
gloss: An instance of inclining the head up and down, as to indicate agreement, or as a cursory greeting.
pos: noun
gloss: A reference or allusion to something.
pos: noun
examples: Much like Mirror Mirror, Huntsman appears to borrow liberally from other fantasy films. Sometimes the nods are clever—Stewart’s first night in the forest, among hallucinatory fog that gives the trees faces and clutching hands, evokes Disney’s animated Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs from 1937.
Early into Zootopia 2, a character celebrates how easy it was to teach everyone to “set aside their differences and solve bias and prejudice forever”—a winking nod towards the mixed reception of the first film’s themes.
gloss: A nomination.
pos: noun
examples: For the fifth time in her career she received a Grammy nod, she has yet to win the award.
Allen Gregory DeLongpre: Really putting a damper on the ol' Tony nod.
gloss: Approval.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: The plan is expected to get the nod from councillors at the next meeting.
Has the BRB received a secret nod from the Ministry to continue the LMR electrification from Weaver Junction to Glasgow?
gloss: A state of half-consciousness; stupor.
pos: noun
examples: Withered addicts drooped into chronic heroin nods.
Derived words: nid-nod
nodder
nodding blue lily
nodding disease
nodding syndrome
nodding donkey
noddingly
nodding thistle
nodding trillium
nodding wakerobin
noddy
nod in
nod off
nod out
nod through
on nodding terms
renod
a nod is as good as a wink
a nod is as good as a wink to a blind horse
continuity nod
get the nod
nigga nod
nod-back
on the nod
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