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1nodding terms — If you are on nodding terms with someone, you don t know them very well, just well enough to say hello when you meet them. We haven t made any friends yet but we re on nodding terms with our neighbours …
2be on nodding terms with someone — have a nodding acquaintance with someone/be on nodding terms with someone/ phrase to know someone well enough to say ‘hello’ to them, but not know them very well Thesaurus: words used to describe relations and relationshipshyponym friendship and… …
3be on nodding terms — ► be on nodding terms know someone slightly. Main Entry: ↑nod …
4be on nodding terms — know someone slightly. → nod …
5nodding acquaintance — noun 1. : a very slight or superficial knowledge or understanding of something had no more than a nodding acquaintance with economic theory 2. : a person with whom one is on terms of casual and distant civility * * * 1. a slight, incomplete, or… …
6have a nodding acquaintance with someone — have a nodding acquaintance with someone/be on nodding terms with someone/ phrase to know someone well enough to say ‘hello’ to them, but not know them very well Thesaurus: words used to describe relations and relationshipshyponym friendship and… …
7List of terms used for Germans — There are many alternative ways to describe the people of Germany, though in English the official designated nationality as well as the standard noun is German. (see also demonym). During the early Renaissance, German implied that the person… …
8nod — 1 verb nodded, nodding (I, T) 1 to move your head up and down, especially in order to show agreement or understanding: I asked her if she was ready to go, and she nodded. | nod your head: Jane nodded her head sympathetically. | nod your… …
9nod — ► VERB (nodded, nodding) 1) lower and raise one s head slightly and briefly in greeting, assent, or understanding, or as a signal. 2) let one s head fall forward when drowsy or asleep. 3) (nod off) informal fall asleep. 4) make a mistake due to a …
10nod — nod1 W2 [nɔd US na:d] v past tense and past participle nodded present participle nodding [I and T] [Date: 1300 1400; Origin: Perhaps from Low German] 1.) to move your head up and down, especially in order to show agreement or understanding… …
