nest

IPA: nˈɛst

noun

  • A structure built by a bird as a place to incubate eggs and rear young.
  • A place used by another mammal, fish, amphibian or insect, for depositing eggs and hatching young.
  • A snug, comfortable, or cosy residence or job situation.
  • A retreat, or place of habitual resort.
  • A hideout for bad people to frequent or haunt; a den.
  • A home that a child or young adult shares with a parent or guardian.
  • (card games) A fixed number of cards in some bidding games awarded to the highest bidder allowing him to exchange any or all with cards in his hand.
  • (military) A fortified position for a weapon.
  • (computing) A structure consisting of nested structures, such as nested loops or nested subroutine calls.
  • A circular bed of pasta, rice, etc. to be topped or filled with other foods.
  • (geology) An aggregated mass of any ore or mineral, in an isolated state, within a rock.
  • A collection of boxes, cases, or the like, of graduated size, each put within the one next larger.
  • A compact group of pulleys, gears, springs, etc., working together or collectively.
  • (vulgar, slang, now US) The pubic hair near a vulva or a vulva itself.
  • A surname.
  • (education) Initialism of native English-speaking teacher.

verb

  • (intransitive, of animals) To build or settle into a nest.
  • (intransitive) To settle into a home.
  • (intransitive) To successively neatly fit inside another.
  • (transitive) To place in, or as if in, a nest.
  • (transitive) To place one thing neatly inside another, and both inside yet another (and so on).
  • (intransitive) To hunt for birds' nests or their contents (usually "go nesting").
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Examples of "nest" in Sentences

  • After this the chicks leave the nest.
  • After this, the chicks leave the nest.
  • Some birds make their nest with pinions.
  • Both parents feed the chicks in the nest.
  • The bird built its nest on the poplar tree.
  • The birds were bulilding the nest on the rafter.
  • The birds fledge and leave the nest after about a month.
  • He described the multitude of birds nesting on the latter.
  • Evidence of conspecific nest parasitism and egg discrimination in the sora.
  • The sticky eggs are deposited in the nest and adhere to the sand and gravel.

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