(v. t.) To make a significant sign to; hence, to summon, as by a motion of the hand.
(n.) A sign made without words; a beck.
Example Sentences:
(1) It won't be worth putting away his travel bags after returning from Perth as the G20 summit in Cannes, France, beckons.
(2) Alex Turner has already set about ingratiating himself with the 2013 festival by guesting with his erstwhile partner in the Last Shadow Puppets, Miles Kane, earlier this afternoon, but as he takes to the Pyramid Stage for the Monkeys' headline slot, piling straight into the bluesy electronic throbs of new single Do I Wanna Know in a sharp striped suit and teddy quiff and throwing the odd karate beckoning motion, there's a real sense of points to be proved.
(3) It's as well to be aware of the beckoning avenues of justification that are drawing in so many of our erstwhile comrades.
(4) With Ukip's clear "in-out" referendum pledge snapping at his heels and devastation beckoning at this year's European elections, Cameron needs a form of words that honours his quest for European reform while calming his party.
(5) An impossibly tall ladder to a higher roof beckons and Prekrasnyy clambers up without hesitation.
(6) Basketball beckons That was until a new sport found him.
(7) Hollywood frequently beckoned from as early as the late 1940s and Darryl Zanuck on seeing a Scofield screen test declared: "That actor!
(8) The booming Bollywood music beckoned a stream of families, wearing ornate saris and sharp kurtas, fragrant plates of samosa chaat in hand, toward the stage, replete with an extravagant display of lights and visuals.
(9) With a growing following for MacFarlane's singing, though, a different path is beckoning.
(10) British governments are repeatedly warned, not least by the parliamentary intelligence and security committee, that foreign adventures beckon retaliation at home.
(11) Seeing as Advocaat’s team are unlikely to be able to conjure similar foot-flat-to-the-floor performances on a weekly basis, the Championship surely beckons unless the squad is further reinforced within the coming week.
(12) These are the features of a field whose time has come and which beckons further research to clarify these issues.
(13) Yet as technology progresses and prices drop, the bionic age appears to be beckoning.
(14) Fallujans are suspicious of outsiders, so I found it surprising when Nihida Kadhim, a housewife, beckoned me into her home.
(15) Newcastle United’s manager remains in desperate need of a striker and has made it clear that, if a reliable scorer – or preferably two – fails to arrive on Tyneside this month, relegation could beckon.
(16) This week I saw a hilarious clip of Trump beckoning Farage out of a crowd – a bit like Courteney Cox in the Dancing in the Dark video – and Farage telling him obsequiously he was “handing over the mantle”.
(17) With defending as mutually muddled as this and both teams possessing the players to exploit such mistakes, an entertaining evening of trading goals beckoned as each side's creative talents found room to express themselves.
(18) The interval beckoned when Heurelho Gomes made his first save, Watford’s goalkeeper repelling Florian Thauvin’s stinging first-time shot.
(19) In a move indicative of the tensions between Athens and its creditors, Bild, the mass-selling German daily, poured scorn on the handout, saying: “Mr Tsipras has violated the agreements of the bailout programme .” In recent weeks Greek-German ties have become increasingly strained, with Berlin’s powerful finance minister, Wolfgang Schäuble, reminding Athens repeatedly that Grexit, or exit from the eurozone, would beckon if it did not stick to the rules, implement reforms and attain tough fiscal targets.
(20) It sits atop the highest of the hills that help define the city centre and each day it beckons its citizens to pop up and say hello.
Nod
Definition:
(v. i.) To bend or incline the upper part, with a quick motion; as, nodding plumes.
(v. i.) To incline the head with a quick motion; to make a slight bow; to make a motion of assent, of salutation, or of drowsiness, with the head; as, to nod at one.
(v. i.) To be drowsy or dull; to be careless.
(v. t.) To incline or bend, as the head or top; to make a motion of assent, of salutation, or of drowsiness with; as, to nod the head.
(v. t.) To signify by a nod; as, to nod approbation.
(v. t.) To cause to bend.
(n.) A dropping or bending forward of the upper oart or top of anything.
(n.) A quick or slight downward or forward motion of the head, in assent, in familiar salutation, in drowsiness, or in giving a signal, or a command.
Example Sentences:
(1) A triphasic pattern was evident for the neck moments including a small phase which represented a seating of the headform on the nodding blocks of the uppermost ATD neck segment, and two larger phases of opposite polarity which represented the motion of the head relative to the trunk during the first 350 ms after impact.
(2) The polygenic control of diabetogenesis in NOD mice, in which a recessive gene linked to the major histocompatibility complex is but one of several controlling loci, suggests that similar polygenic interactions underlie this type of diabetes in humans.
(3) Everyone worked hard, but it is fair to pick out Willian because of his work-rate, quality on the ball, participation in the first goal and quality of the second.” It had been Willian’s fizzed cross, 11 minutes before the break, which Dragovic had nodded inadvertently inside Shovkovskiy’s near post to earn the hosts their initial lead.
(4) Addition of the flavanol kaempferol, an antagonist of nod gene induction, had no detectable effect on the chemotactic response to naringenin or apigenin, but was itself found to be an attractant.
(5) He is seeing clubbers with their hands in the air again: "In the dubstep era everyone just stood there and nodded their heads.
(6) There are these two young fish swimming along, and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says, "Morning, boys, how's the water?"
(7) We conclude that parathyroiditis in the NOD mouse is part of the wide spectrum of autoimmunity observed in this animal model of diabetes.
(8) TIP displays significant homology with several other membrane proteins from diverse sources: major intrinsic polypeptide from bovine lens fiber plasma membrane; NOD 26, a peribacteroid membrane protein in the nitrogen-fixing root nodules of soybean; and interestingly, GIpF, the glycerol facilitator transport protein in the cytoplasmic membrane of Escherichia coli.
(9) Nonobese diabetic (NOD) mice get spontaneous diabetes with clinical and pathological manifestations similar to those seen in human type I diabetes.
(10) DMSO (2.5%), MSM (2.5%), and DMS (0.25%) were added to the drinking water of female NOD mice immediately after weaning.
(11) A 1977 Apple II computer sits in the background, near a poster that reads "Think" – presumably a nod to Apple's "Think different" advertising campaign of the late 1990s.
(12) Antibodies against both IAP and type C were detected in NOD, with the humoral response to type C, but not IAP, preceding decline in beta cell function.
(13) He was perhaps casting an envious glance at his counterpart Dave Whelan's summer signings, particularly Holt, who nodded over early on from six yards.
(14) Nicotinamide, a vitamin B group substance, has previously been shown to prevent diabetes and suppress insulitis in the NOD mouse.
(15) The study of animal models of insulin-dependent diabetes (BB rats, NOD mice) now allows demonstrating the autoimmune process.
(16) Here we show that the nodulation genes of this bacterium determine the production of a large family of Nod-factors which are N-acylated chitin pentamers carrying a variety of substituents.
(17) Nor is it good enough to listen, nod politely, then tell the troubled voters they've got it wrong.
(18) The NOD (non-obese diabetic) mouse spontaneously develops insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM) characterized by autoimmune insulitis, involving lymphocytic infiltration around and into the islets followed by pancreatic beta (beta) cell destruction, similar to human IDDM.
(19) Treatment with anti-class II antibody effectively prevented the adoptive transfer of diabetes produced by splenocytes from diabetic NOD mice into newborn mice but failed to prevent adoptive transfer into irradiated adult NOD recipients.
(20) This time he looked like a nodding dog in the back of a car that's been in a terrible crash.