Object

• assent: He nods a pop-eyed assent to everything the maid is telling.

• donkey: Nodding donkeys pull out oil from barren landscapes, bubbling in pools over the soil.

Adjective modifier

• cursory: There is a cursory nod in the direction of fiction: three brief extracts from Dickens's Pickwick Papers are included.

• polite: Contents: Briony Amariel Avim Tarot glances around with a polite nod, moving away from the mirror.

• slight: In China, meetings start with the shaking of hands and a slight nod of the head.

• token: Their resolution was vague and patchy, with a token nod to socialism.

• occasional: Most of us life day to day in the material world, with an occasional nod in the direction of the spiritual.

Preposition: in

• agreement: His wife, Vanessa, an interior designers, sitting next to him at the table, nods in agreement.

• direction: There is a cursory nod in the direction of fiction: three brief extracts from Dickens's Pickwick Papers are included.

Preposition: of

• assent: A general nod of assent did the rounds of the group.

• approval: This time he gave it his nod of approval.

• acknowledgment: We all sat bravely not saying anything to each other just giving polite nods of acknowledgment.