Nod

Definitions: Nod

Nod

Noun

1. A sign of assent or salutation or command.

2. The act of nodding the head.

Verb

1. Express or signify by nodding; "He nodded his approval".

2. Lower and raise the head, so as to indicate assent.

3. Let the head fall forward through drowsiness; "The old man was nodding in his chair".

4. Sway gently back and forth, as of flowers or tress in the wind.

5. Be almost asleep; "The old man sat nodding by the fireplace".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

"Nod" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "vagabond", "fugitive".

Date "nod" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

Bible

Slang in 1811

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NOD

NOD

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Synonym: Nod

Approbation

Noun: approbation; approval, approvement; sanction, advocacy; nod of approbation; esteem, estimation, good opinion, golden opinions, admiration; love; appreciation, regard, account, popularity, gr/kudos/gr, credit; repute; best seller.

Assent

Verb: assent; give assent, yield assent, nod assent; acquiesce; agree; receive, accept, accede, accord, concur, lend oneself to, consent, coincide, reciprocate, go with; be at one with; Adjective: go along with, chime in with, strike in with, close in with; echo, enter into one's views, agree in opinion; vote, give one's voice for; recognize; subscribe to, conform to, defer to; say yes to, say ditto, amen to, say aye to.

Noun: assent, assentment; acquiescence, admission; nod; accord, concord, concordance; agreement; affirmance, affirmation; recognition, acknowledgment, avowal; confession of faith.

Command

Noun: command, order, ordinance, act, fiat, hukm, bidding, dictum, hest, behest, call, beck, nod.

Courtesy

Salute; embrace; (endearment); kiss, kiss hands; drink to, pledge, hob and nob; move to, nod to; smile upon.

Mark of recognition, nod; "nods and becks and wreathed smiles"; valediction; condolence.

Evolution

Verb: oscillate; vibrate, librate; alternate, undulate, wave; rock, swing; pulsate, beat; wag, waggle; nod, bob, courtesy, curtsy; tick; play; wamble, wabble; dangle, swag.

Inactivity

Sleep, slumber, be asleep; hibernate; oversleep; sleep like a top, sleep like a log, sleep like a dormouse; sleep soundly, heavily; doze, drowze, snooze, nap; take a nap; Noun: dream; snore one's best; settle to sleep, go to sleep, go off to sleep; doze off, drop off; fall asleep; drop asleep; close the eyes, seal up the eyes, seal up eyelids; weigh down the eyelids; get sleep, nod, yawn; go to bed, turn; get some z's, stack z's.

Indication

Make a sign; n. signalize; underscore; give a signal, hang out a signal; beckon; nod; wink, glance, leer, nudge, shrug, tip the wink; gesticulate; raise the finger, hold up the finger, raise the hand, hold up the hand; saw the air, "suit the action to the word".

Gesture, gesticulation; pantomime; wink, glance, leer; nod, shrug, beck; touch, nudge; dactylology, dactylonomy; freemasonry, telegraphy, chirology, byplay, dumb show; cue; hint; clue, clew, key, scent.

Crosswords: Nod

Romanian (bend, bow, Burl, gnarl, half-hitch, joint, kink, knar, knob, knot, knurl, loop, lump, node, nodosity, noose, snub), Swedish (node), Welsh (aim, brand, mark, note, token).

Wait! Ah! Right there. Is that a head nod? A nod is usually down then back up. Your head went down Wait! (Stargate SG-1; writing credit: Robert C. Cooper; Brad Wright)

Blynken & Nod Wynken (1938)

Gorod nod udarom (1933)

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Books

• How The Naked Ape Got To The Land Of Nod (reference)

• One Less Brick in the Wall: The FCC Gives Bell Atlantic the Long-Distance Nod [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference)

• The Land of Nod Treasury (reference)

• Wynken, Blynken and Nod (reference)

• Wynken, Blynken, & Nod (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• A Nod is As Good As a Wink to a Blind Horse (reference)

• Nod & A Wink (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Ready to go? Er-- don't nod your head / KAL.Credit: Library of Congress.

Chas. H. Yale and Sidney R. Ellis' The evil eye, or The further funny freaks of Nid and the continued comical contortions of Nod.Credit: Library of Congress.

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The woman gave an affirmative nod of the head.

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Health

Following this initial euphoria, the user goes "on the nod," an alternately wakeful and drowsy state. (references)

These seizures are sometimes referred to as petit mal seizures, which is an older term. Tonic seizures cause stiffening of muscles of the body, generally those in the back, legs, and arms. Clonic seizures cause repeated jerking movements of muscles on both sides of the body. Myoclonic seizures cause jerks or twitches of the upper body, arms, or legs. Atonic seizures cause a loss of normal muscle tone. The affected person will fall down or may nod his or her head involuntarily. (references)

Economic History

Comoros

In a separate nod to pressure to restore civilian rule, the government organized several committees to compose a new constitution, including the August 2000 National Congress and November 2000 Tripartite Commission. (references)

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Expressions using "nod": answer with a nod ♦ be served on the nod ♦ give a nod ♦ go to the land of nod ♦ have at one's nod ♦ Land of Nod ♦ nod approval ♦ nod assent ♦ nod off ♦ nod one's assent ♦ nod one's head ♦ nod smb. out ♦ nod to ♦ nod to smb. ♦ on the nod ♦ The land of Nod ♦ to go on the nod ♦ to nod ♦ to nod off. Additional references.

Beginning with "nod": nod-down, nod-nod, nod-on.

Ending with "nod": half-nod, nid-nod, nod-nod.

Albanian

var kryet, tundje e kokës, tundem (budge, dodder, jiggle, jumble, niddle-noddle, nutate, oscillate, quake, reel, rock, stagger, sway, swing, wabble, waddle, waggle, wamble, wobble), tund kokën, lëkundem (dangle, falter, halt, hang, hesitate, jolt, jumble, nutate, oscillate, pendulate, reel, rock, shake, shift, stagger, sway, swing, totter, vacillate, vibrate, wabble, wallow, wamble, waver, wobble), kotullohem, jam përgjumësh, dremitje (catnap, doze, drowse, nap, slumber, somnolence, somnolency), dremit (doze, drowse, nap, slumber, snooze), dremis (doze, drowse, nap, slumber, snooze). (various references)

Arabic 

‏نكس رأسه, ‏ومأ (beckon, gesticulate, gesture, mime, sign, signal), ‏وافق (accede, accept, accord, agree, approbate, approve, assent, assert, compound, consent, fit, grant, jump, ok, okay, okey), ‏حي (active, alive, animate, animated, block, district, existent, graphic, graphical, lifelike, live, lively, living, neighborhood, neighbourhood, part, pictorial, picturesque, quarter, reanimate, recall, regenerate, section, vivid, ward), ‏غفي, ‏حرك رأسه, ‏تمايل (bob, flexibility, lopsided, lurch, reel, roll, stagger, sway, swing, teeter, titubation, waver, weave, wobble), ‏تداعى للسقوط (topple), ‏زل (err, slight), ‏علامة الموافقة, ‏عبر بإيماءة, ‏إيماءة (gesture, sign), ‏ألقى موافقة. (various references)

Basque

seinale (nod head, sign head). (various references)

Bulgarian 

клюмане, клюмам (wilt), кимване, кимам, не внимавам, навеждам се (bend, bend forward, bend over, couch, crouch, reach down, stoop), правя грешки, правя пропуски, поздравявам с кимване на глава, поздрав с кимване, дрямка (doze, drowse, kip, nap, shut eye, snooze), дремя (doze, drowse, slumber, snooze). (various references)

Chinese 

點� � , 点头 (Nodded, Nodding). (various references)

Czech

souhlas (acceptance, accord, agreement, applause, approbation, approval, assent, blessing, compliance, conformity, consensus, consent, consistency, correspondence, ok, okay, permission, say so), poklona (bow, compliment), přitakání, přikývnutí, přikývnout, klímat (drowse, have a doze), klímání, kývnutí (Beck), kývnout, kývat se (pendulate, sway, swing, wabble, waggle, wiggle, wobble). (various references)

Danish

kokse (to couch, to go on the nod, to mong out, to nod, to nod off). (various references)

Dutch

knikken (buckling, warping), ja knikken. (various references)

Esperanto

kapjesi. (various references)

Faeroese

nikka játtandi. (various references)

Farsi 

تکاندادن سربعلامت توافق , تکان سر, سرتکان دادن (Beck), باسراشاره کردن . (various references)

Finnish

nyökyttää, nyökkäys, nyökätä, nuokkua (droop, hang down), tervehtiä (bow, greet, raise one's hat, salute, shake hands with), päännyökkäys. (various references)

French

somnoler, sommeiller, signe affirmatif, secouer la tête, se balancer, saluer, incliner la tête, inclination de la tête, inclination, hocher la tête, hochement, faire un signe de tête, faire signe que oui, avoir le feu vert. (various references)

German

nicken (Bob, doze, galloping, longitudinal vibration, nodding, pitch, pitching, snooze, to nod), wink (beck, character, hint, mark, sign, suggestion, tip, wave). (various references)

Greek 

κλίνω την κεφαλή, νόημα (meaning, sense, sing, tenor), νυστάζω (drowse), νεύμα (sign), νεύω (beckon, sign, signal, wink). (various references)

Hebrew 

מ� ו�" ראש, ל�"ר�"ם (drowse, fall asleep, go to sleep, sleep, slumber), ל�"� י�" (stir), ל� מ� ם (doze, drowse, snooze), ל� ו�" (move, wander), ל� ע� ע בראש. (various references)

Hungarian

biccentés (Bob, wag). (various references)

Indonesian

mengangguk, manggut, berangguk, anggukan (pitching). (various references)

Italian

sonnecchiare (doze, drowse, nap, snooze), segno (arbitrary sign, badged, character, degree, gesture, indication, landmark, Mark, natural sign, note, scar, score, shadow, sign, signal, stigma, suspicion, symbol, symptom, target, tick, token), indicare col capo, inclinarsi (cant, lean, sag, slant, tilt), gesto (act, action, deed, gesture, motion, movement, sign, wave), far cenno di testa; cenno di testa, chinare il capo dal sonno, cenno (allusion, Beck, gesture, hint, mention, note, notice, outline, sign, wave), assentire (agree, assent, consent), annuire col capo, accenno (allusion, hint, inkling, intimation, reference, sign), accennare di sì col capo, accennare col capo. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

会釈 (bow, greeting, recognition, salutation). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

えしゃく (bow, greeting, recognition, salutation). (various references)

Korean 

끄덕임 (Nodding). (various references)

Manx

snuggal (bob down, bobbing, butting, dig with elbow, flounce, push, toss as head; nutation; nodding, toss; nutation; nodding), snoggal (nodding, nutation), snog (toss, toss of head), smeidey (beck, beckon, beckoning, nodding), smeid. (various references)

Maya

beech-poolt (to nod). (various references)

Occitan

signe (head sign). (various references)

Pig Latin

odnay

Portuguese

prejudicial (adverse, bad, baneful, deteriorative, detrimental, detrimentally, harmful, hurtful, ill feeling, inimical, injurious, pestiferous, prejudicial, ruinous, wrongful), cabeceamento, aceno com a cabeça, acenar com a cabeça. (various references)

Romanian

moţãi (doze, doze away, doze off, drowse, nap, slumber, snooze), încuviinţa cu capul, a-şi da (lay down, pass), ameninţa cu prãbuşirea, da din cap (have a snooze, snooze), da din cap aprobator, face o greşealã (commit an error, make a mistake, make an error, trip), încuviinţa cu, greşi (be in error, be mistaken, do wrong to smb., err, fail, make a mistake, Miss, mistake, overshoot, sin, slip, stand in error, transgress, trespass), semn cu capul, picoti (doze), plecãciune (bow, inclination, obeisance, reverence), rãspunde la salut, salut (cheerio, good bye, greeting, hail, hallo, hullo, salutation, salute, so long, welcome), se apleca (apply, bend, decline, lean, stoop), se legãna (dangle, flap, reel, rock, sway, swing), face semn cu. (various references)

Russian 

клевать носом, клевание носом, кивок (beck, shake), кивнуть, кивать головой, кивать (beckon, niddle-noddle, nid-nod, nodde, nodding, nutate), наклоняться (bend, bend over, decline, dip, incline, lean, stoop, tilt, tip), прозевать, покоситься, дремота (dormancy, doze, drowse, nap, slumber, somnolence, somnolency), дремать (doze, drowse, nap, napping, slumbered, slumbering, slumbers, snooze). (various references)

Scottish

nodadh (a nod), gog (a nod, nm. a. cackle). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

mig (forty winks, hint, inkling, insinuation, sign, wink), klimati glavom, klimanje glavom (nodding). (various references)

Spanish

inclinación (angle of inclination, bent, bow, careenage, desire, dip, droop, gradient, heel, heeling, inclination, incline, inclining, item, leaning, liking, list, mind, nutation, penchant, pitch, plunge, propensity, rake, skew, slant, slanting, slope, sloping, strike, taper, tilt, tilting, want). (various references)

Swedish

nick (Beck), nicka (bow, duck, head, nid-nod). (various references)

Thai

พยักหน้ารับ, การพยักหน้า. (various references)

Turkish

sallamak (agitate, Bob, brandish, flap, flirt, flourish, jog, joggle, jolt, rock, roll, shake, swing, switch, wag, waggle, wave), kafa sallamak (shake one's head), kafa sallama (shake of the head), hata yapmak (do wrong, err, go astray, goof, lapse, make mistake, slip, slip up, stumble, stumble in, stumble into, trip), dikkatsiz davranmak, başıyle selâm vermek, başı ile onaylamak (nod one's assent), başı öne düşmek, başı öne düşme, baş işareti. (various references)

Ukranian 

хитатися (niddle-noddle, nutate, oscillate, rock, shake, stagger, swing, titter, wabble, wamble, waver, weave, wobble), куняти (nid-nod, nod off), клювати носом, клювання носом (nodding), кивок (beckon, nutation), кивати головою (noddle), нахилятися (bend, bow, cant, decline, droop, duck, lean, slant, stoop, tilt, tip, tip up), загрожувати обвалом, загавитися, прогавити (miss the bus, pass), покоситися, дрімота (dormancy, doze, drowse, drowsiness, nap, sandman, sloom, slumber), дрімати (doze, nap, nod off, slumber). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự ra lệnh sự g� gật bu�"n ngủ díp mắt lại, sự ra hiệu (cue), cái gật đầu. (various references)

Welsh

pendwmpian (doze, slumber), munud (gesture, minute, moment, sign), amneidio (beckon), amnaid (beck, sign). (various references)

noe, nutibus, nutu, nutum, nutus, sednu. (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 "nod": nodal, nodalities, nodality, nodally, nodded, nodder, nodders, noddies, nodding, noddle, noddled, noddles, noddling, noddy, node, nodes, nodi, nodical, nodose, nodosities, nodosity, nodous, nods, nodular, nodulation, nodulations, nodule, nodules, nodulose, nodulous, nodus. (additional references)

Words ending with "nod": synod. (additional references)

Words containing "nod": acnode, acnodes, anodal, anodally, anode, anodes, anodic, anodically, anodization, anodizations, anodize, anodized, anodizes, anodizing, anodyne, anodynes, anodynic, antinodal, antinode, antinodes, chionodoxa, chionodoxas, conodont, conodonts, crunodal, crunode, crunodes, dicynodont, dicynodonts, dynode, dynodes, echinoderm, echinodermatous, echinoderms, granodiorite, granodiorites, granodioritic, hymnodies, hymnody, iguanodon, iguanodons, immunodeficiencies, immunodeficiency, immunodeficient, immunodiagnoses, immunodiagnosis, immunodiagnostic, immunodiffusion, immunodiffusions, internodal, internode. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Nod" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: anod, enod, gnod, jod, knod, Mndo, Mnod, nadp, Nadv, Najd, Naqd, nbo, nco, ndb, ndd, ndo, ndor, Ndow, ndt, ned, nedn, neod, ngo, nho, nid, Niddk, nidr, niod, Niord, njo, nndy, noa, noad, Noc, nodd, Noddfa, nodi, nodo, nody, noe, noed, Nof, noh, noi, noid, nok, nol, nold, noo, nood, noof, noog, nooh, nooi, noq, nord, nos, nou, Noy, Noz, npo, Ntda, nud, nudo, nudy, nund, nuq, nurd, nvo, nyd, nyo, onad, ond, ondy, vod, yod. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: don.

-1 letter: do, no, od, on.

+1 letter: bond, dona, done, dong, dons, down, fond, node, nodi, nods, pond, undo, yond.

+2 letters: adorn, adown, anode, blond, bonds, boned, bound, coden, codon, condo, coned, danio, demon, devon, dingo, doing, donas, donee, donga, dongs, donna, donne, donor, donsy, donut, doven, downs, downy, doyen, dozen, drone, drown, endow, fonds, fondu, found, frond, gonad, honda, honed, hound, indol, indow, iodin, kendo, loden, monad, monde, mondo, mound, nodal, noddy, nodes, nodus, nomad, nosed, noted, odeon, olden, owned, poind, ponds, pound, radon, redon, rondo, round, snood, sonde, sound, synod, tondi, tondo, toned, vodun, wound, zoned.

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