different between nod vs gesture

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General New Zealand) IPA^(key): /n?d/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /n?d/
• (General Australian, Estuary English, Wales) IPA^(key): /n?d/
• Homophone: gnawed (in accents with the cot-caught merger)

Verb

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.

   • By every wind that nods the mountain pine.

   • 1819, William Wordsworth, On Seeing a Tuft of Snowdrops in a Storm

     Frail snowdrops that together cling / and nod their helmets, smitten by the wing / of many a furious whirl-blast sweeping by.

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.
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.

Coordinate terms

• (incline the head): wag, yes

Related terms

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

Translations

Noun

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.
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.

Translations

References

Anagrams

• DON, Don, Don., ODN, don, don'

Aromanian

Alternative forms

• nodu

Etymology 1

From Latin n?dus. Compare Daco-Romanian nod.

Noun

nod

1. knot

Etymology 2

From Latin n?d?. Compare Daco-Romanian înnoda, înnod (archaic noda).

Alternative forms

• nodu, anod, anodu

Verb

nod (past participle nudatã)

1. I knot, tie a knot.

Related terms

• nudari / nudare
• nudat

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish not, from Latin nota. Doublet of nóta.

Pronunciation

• (Munster, Connacht) IPA^(key): /n???d??/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /n???d??/

Noun

nod m (genitive singular noid, nominative plural noda)

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

Declension

Further reading

• "nod" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “not, nod”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Northern Kurdish

Numeral

nod

1. ninety

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

nod n (definite singular nodet, indefinite plural nod, definite plural noda)

1. a bent spike on a nail (or similar) which is hammered through a medium (e.g. a piece of wood)

Old Saxon

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *naudi

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /n??d/

Noun

n?d f

1. a need
2. a necessity for something

Descendants

• Middle Low German: n?t
  • Westphalian:

    Sauerländisch: nôd

    Westmünsterländisch: Nood

  • Plautdietsch: Noot

Romanian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nod/

Noun

nod n (plural noduri)

1. knot

Declension

Related terms

• înnoda
• noad?
• nodei
• nodos
• noduros

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /no?d/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin nota. Cognate with Cornish nos.

Noun

nod m (plural nodau, not mutable)

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

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English node, from Latin nodus.

Noun

nod m (plural nodau or nodion, not mutable)

1. node

Etymology 3

Mutated form of dod (“to come”).

Verb

nod

1. Nasal mutation of dod.

Mutation

References

English

Etymology

From Medieval Latin gestura (“a mode of action”), from Latin gerere (“to bear, reflexive bear oneself, behave, act”), past participle gestus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d??est???/, /?d??s.t??(?)/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?d??s.t??/, /?d??s.t??/

Noun

gesture (plural gestures)

1. A motion of the limbs or body, especially one made to emphasize speech.

   The middle-finger gesture is really a nonverbal swear.

   This Web browser can be controlled with mouse gestures.
2. An act or a remark made as a formality or as a sign of attitude.

   We took flowers as a gesture of sympathy.
3. (obsolete) The manner of carrying the body; position of the body or limbs; posture.

Related terms

• countergesture
• gesticulate
• gesticulation
• gesticulative
• gestural
• gestureless
• gesturelike

Translations

Verb

gesture (third-person singular simple present gestures, present participle gesturing, simple past and past participle gestured)

1. (intransitive) To make a gesture or gestures.

   My dad said to never gesture with my hands when I talk.

   Never gesture at someone with a middle finger.

2. (transitive) To express something by a gesture or gestures.

   He gestured his disgust.

3. (transitive) To accompany or illustrate with gesture or action.
   • 1594, Richard Hooker, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie

     It is not orderly read, nor gestured as beseemeth.

Synonyms

• ((intransitive) make a gesture): gesticulate

Hyponyms

• ((intransitive) make a gesture): beckon

Translations

See also

• Appendix:Gestures

Further reading

• gesture in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• gesture in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Alemannic German

Adjective

gesture

1. Alternative form of gesturm

Latin

Participle

gest?re

1. vocative masculine singular of gest?rus