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Webster 1913 Edition

Nod

Nod

(nŏd)
,
Verb.
I.
[OE.
nodden
; cf. OHG.
knōtōn
, ge
nuotōn
, to shake, and E.
nudge
.]
1.
To bend or incline the upper part, with a quick motion;
as,
nodding
plumes
.
2.
To incline the head with a quick motion; to make a slight bow; to make a motion of assent, of salutation, or of drowsiness, with the head;
as, to
nod
at one
.
3.
To be careless or inattentive; to make a mistake from lack of attention.
Nor is it Homer
nods
, but we that dream.
Pope.

Nod

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Nodded
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Nodding
.]
1.
To incline or bend, as the head or top; to make a motion of assent, of salutation, or of drowsiness with;
as, to
nod
the head
.
2.
To signify by a nod;
as, to
nod
approbation
.
3.
To cause to bend.
[Poetic]
By every wind that
nods
the mountain pine.
Keats.

Nod

(nŏd)
,
Noun.
1.
A dropping or bending forward of the upper part or top of anything.
Like a drunken sailor on a mast,
Ready with every
nod
to tumble down.
Shakespeare
2.
A quick or slight downward or forward motion of the head, in assent, in familiar salutation, in drowsiness, or in giving a signal, or a command;
as, a
nod
of approval
.
A look or a
nod
only ought to correct them [the children] when they do amiss.
Locke.
Nations obey my word and wait my
nod
.
Prior.
The land of Nod
,
sleep.

Webster 1828 Edition

Nod

NOD

,
Verb.
I.
[Gr. contracted; a nod; to nod, to beckon, a leap a spring; to leap, to throb or beat, as the pulse]
1.
To incline the head with a quick motion, either forward or sidewise, as persons nod in sleep.
2.
To bend or incline with a quick motion; as nodding plumes.
The nodding verdure of its brow.
3.
To be drowsy.
Your predecessors, contrary to other authors, never pleased their readers more than when they were nodding.
4.
To make a slight bow; also, to beckon with a nod.

NOD

,
Verb.
T.
To incline or bend; to shake.

NOD

,
Noun.
1.
A quick declination of the head.
A look or a nod only ought to correct them when they do amiss.
2.
A quick declination or inclination.
Like a drunken sailor on a mast, ready with every nod to tumble down.
3.
A quick inclination of the head in drowsiness or sleep.
4.
A slight obeisance.
5.
A command; as in L. numen, for nutamen.

Definition 2024

nod

nod

See also: NOD, nód, nöd, nød, -nod, and -nöd

English

Verb

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

  1. (transitive and intransitive) To incline the head up and down, as to indicate agreement.
  2. (transitive and 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)
  3. (intransitive) To gradually fall asleep.
  4. (intransitive) To make a mistake by being temporarily inattentive or tired
    Even Homer nods.
  5. (intransitive, soccer) To head; to strike the ball with one's head.
    • 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.
  6. (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.
  7. (intransitive, slang) To fall asleep while under the influence of opiates.

Coordinate terms

  • (incline the head): wag, yes

Related terms

Translations

Noun

nod ‎(plural nods)

  1. An instance of moving one's head as described above.
  2. A reference or allusion to something.
    • 2012 May 31, Tasha Robinson, “Film: Review: Snow White And The Huntsman”, in (Please provide the title of the work):
      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.

Translations

References

  1. ↑ “nod” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary (2001).

Anagrams

Aromanian

Alternative forms

  • nodu

Etymology 1

From Latin nōdus. Compare Daco-Romanian nod.

Noun

nod

  1. knot

Etymology 2

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

Alternative forms

Verb

nod (past participle nudatã)

  1. I knot, tie a knot.
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Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish not, from Latin nota.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [n̪ˠɔd̪ˠ]

Noun

nod m ‎(genitive singular noid, nominative plural noda)

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

Declension

References

  • "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.

Kurdish

Numeral

nod

  1. ninety

Old Saxon

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /noːt/

Noun

nōd f

  1. a need
  2. a necessity for something

Romanian

Etymology

From Latin nōdus.

Noun

nod n ‎(plural noduri)

  1. knot

Declension

Related terms

Welsh

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /noːd/, /nɔːd/

Etymology 1

Cognate with Cornish nos.

Noun

nod m (plural nodau)

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

Etymology 2

Borrowing from English node.

Noun

nod m (plural nodau or nodion)

  1. node

Etymology 3

Mutated form of dod ‎(“to come”).

Verb

nod

  1. Nasal mutation of dod.

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal aspirate
dod ddod nod unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Etymology

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 *knḍʰ-, from *ken- ‎(“to scratch, scrape, rub”).[1] Compare Old High German hnotōn ‎(“to shake”), Old High German hnutten ("to shake, rattle, vibrate"; > Modern dialectal German notteln, nütteln ‎(“to rock, move back and forth”)), Icelandic hnjóða ‎(“to rivet, clinch”).

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