nest

IPA: nˈɛst

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.

(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").

Examples of "nest" in Sentences

If the push out of the nest is successful, they fly.
If you are just tesing it, make sure the nest is abandoned!
red nest building the nest a nest toad
Cosimo of the stork nest nest nest green nest chunks
There he had built what he called a nest, but what humans, with greater nicety of diction, call a drey.
For years, I thought of nothing but the couple we formed, of what I called our nest, of what I also called our future.
Like when my son was obsessed with women's chests (which for some reason he calls a nest) and would point and comment on every "nest" he saw from the grocery store to church.
At the very top of the city, perched like an eagles nest, is this glass incased vista point which is part of this well appointed hotel/restaurant (name escapes me) overlooking the whole city.
Now, throughout _the whole of these families the nest is open_, and I am not aware of a single instance in which any one of these birds builds a _domed nest_, or places it in a _hole of a tree_, or _underground_, or in any place where it is effectually concealed.