Nod off

Definition

nod /nɒd/ v ( -dd- ) ၁။ (က) ေခါင္းညိတ္သည္။ She nodded (her head) in agreement. ❍ I asked her if she wanted to come and she nodded. ❍ She nodded her approval. (ခ) ~ sth(at/ to sb) ေခါင္းညိတ္ျပသည္။ nod a greeting ❍ He nodded to me in welcome. ❍ He nodded to me to leave the room. (ဂ) ~ (to/ towards sb/ sth) ေမးထိုး၍ ၫႊန္ျပ သည္။ I asked where his wife was and he nodded towards the garden. ၂။ ေခါင္းတညိတ္ညိတ္ လုပ္သည္။ He sat nodding in time to the music. ၃။ ေခါင္းငိုက္စိုက္က်သည္။ He sat nodding by the fire. ၄။ (ပန္း စသည္) ေလ၌ တညိတ္ညိတ္ လႈပ္ရွားေနသည္။ nodding pansies. n ေခါင္းညိတ္ျခင္း။ ေခါင္းညိတ္ျပျခင္း။ give a nod of recognition/ agreement. ❏ give sb/ get the nod [IDM] (infml) လုပ္ခြင့္ရသည္။ ဆက္လုပ္ခြင့္ရသည္။ Plans for a new by- pass were finally given the nod. ❏ have a nodding acquaintance with sb/ sth [IDM] ျမင္ဖူးေတြ႕ဖူး႐ံု။ I have no more than a nodding acquaintance with her work. ❏ a nod is as good as a wink (to a blind horse/ man) [IDM] (saying) အရိပ္ျပအေကာင္ထင္သည္။ ❏ nod off [PHRV] (infml) တစ္ေမွးအိပ္ေပ်ာ္သြားသည္။ He nodded off by the fire. ❏ on the nod [IDM] (Brit infml) ခပ္မဆိတ္ သေဘာတူ သည္။ The proposal went through (ie was approved) on the nod.

Examples

1. I expected an argument
2. but she merely nodded and went out.
3. The manager nodded his understanding.
4. [nod in agreement/approval/sympathy] : Alison smiled and nodded in agreement.
5. [nod your head] : Luke was nodding his head thoughtfully.
6. [nod towards/in the direction of] : ‘They’re having fun’
7. she said
8. nodding towards the kids on the beach.
9. [nod at] : She nodded at the waiter for him to bring in the cake.
10. [nod to] : I nodded to my friend and she rang the bell.
11. Mel nodded her thanks to Adam.
12. [nod at] : The man smiled shyly and nodded at her.
13. He nodded the ball over the line.
14. The ears of corn nodded gently in the breeze.