nod

From Middle English nodden, probably from an unrecorded Old English *hnodian (“to nod, shake the head”), from Proto-Germanic *hnudōną (“to beat, rivet, pound, push”), from Proto-Indo-European *kendʰ-, from *ken- (“to scratch, scrape, rub”).[1] Compare Old High German hnotōn (“to shake”), hnutten (“to shake, rattle, vibrate”) (> modern dialectal German notteln, nütteln (“to rock, move back and forth”)), Icelandic hnjóða (“to rivet, clinch”).

• (Received Pronunciation, General New Zealand) IPA^(key): /nɒd/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /nɑd/
• (General Australian, Estuary English, Wales) IPA^(key): /nɔd/

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nod (third-person singular simple present nods, present participle nodding, simple past and past participle nodded)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To incline the head up and down, as to indicate agreement.
2. (transitive, intransitive) To briefly incline the head downwards as a cursory greeting.
3. (transitive, intransitive) To sway, move up and down.
   • Keats

     By every wind that nods the mountain pine.

   • 1819 "Frail snowdrops that together cling / and nod their helmets, smitten by the wing / of many a furious whirl-blast sweeping by." (Wordsworth, On Seeing a Tuft of Snowdrops in a Storm)
4. (intransitive) To gradually fall asleep.
5. (transitive) To signify by a nod.

   They nodded their assent.

6. (intransitive) To make a mistake by being temporarily inattentive or tired

   Even Homer nods.

7. (transitive, intransitive, soccer) To head; to strike the ball with one's head.

   Jones nods the ball back to his goalkeeper.

   • 2010 December 29, Chris Whyatt, “Chelsea 1 - 0 Bolton”, in BBC‎:

     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.

8. (intransitive, figuratively) To allude to something.
   • March 15 2012, Soctt Tobias, The Kid With A Bike [Review]

     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.

9. (intransitive, slang) To fall asleep while under the influence of opiates.

• (incline the head): wag, yes

• nod off
• nod out
• nodding disease, nodding syndrome

nod (plural nods)

1. An instance of inclining the head up and down, as to indicate agreement, or as a cursory greeting.
2. A reference or allusion to something.
   • 2012 May 31, Tasha Robinson, “Film: Review: Snow White And The Huntsman”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)‎:

     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.

3. A nomination.

   For the fifth time in her career she received a Grammy nod, she has yet to win the award.

   • 2011 Allen Gregory, "Pilot" (season 1, episode 1):

     Allen Gregory DeLongpre: Really putting a damper on the ol' Tony nod.

4. (figuratively) Approval.

   The plan is expected to get the nod from councillors at the next meeting.

• DON, Don, Don., ODN, don, don'

• nodu

From Latin nōdus. Compare Daco-Romanian nod.

nod

1. knot

From Latin nōdō. Compare Daco-Romanian înnoda, înnod (archaic noda).

• nodu, anod, anodu

nod (past participle nudatã)

1. I knot, tie a knot.

• nudari / nudare
• nudat

From Old Irish not, from Latin nota.

• (Munster, Connacht) IPA^(key): /n̪ˠɔd̪ˠ/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /n̪ˠʌd̪ˠ/

nod m (genitive singular noid, nominative plural noda)

1. scribal contraction, abbreviation
2. hint (clue; tacit suggestion)

• "nod" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• “not, nod” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

nod

1. ninety

From Proto-Germanic *naudiz, from Indo-European *nau-, *nū- ‘death, corpse’.

• IPA^(key): /nɔːd/

nōd f

1. a need
2. a necessity for something

• Middle Low German: nōt
  • Westphalian:

    Sauerländisch: nôd

    Westmünsterländisch: Nood

  • Plautdietsch: Noot

From Latin nōdus, from Proto-Indo-European *gned-, *gnod- (“to bind”).

nod n (plural noduri)

1. knot

• înnoda
• noadă
• nodei
• nodos
• noduros

• IPA^(key): /noːd/

Cognate with Cornish nos.

nod m (plural nodau)

1. mark, brand
2. aim, objective, goal

Borrowed from English node.

nod m (plural nodau or nodion)

1. node

Mutated form of dod (“to come”).

nod

1. Nasal mutation of dod.