Nest definition
A place affording snug refuge or lodging; a home.
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A cozy or snug place in which to live or rest; retreat.
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Nest is defined as to live in a safe place like where a mother bird keeps her young.
An example of nest is for a turtle to make a living space for her growing young.
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The definition of a nest is a structure where some creatures lay their eggs and keep their young safe and warm, or a place in which to live or rest.
An example of a nest is where baby birds live.
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A group of weapons in a prepared position.
A machine-gun nest.
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A structure or shelter made or used by a bird to hold its eggs during incubation and to house its young until fledged.
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A structure or shelter in which other animals, such as reptiles, fish, or insects, deposit their eggs or tend their young.
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A structure or complex built by ants, termites, or other social animals to house a colony.
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A number of insects, birds, or other animals occupying a nest.
Attacked by a nest of hornets.
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A place or environment that fosters rapid growth or development, especially of something undesirable; a hotbed.
A nest of criminal activity.
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Those who occupy or frequent such a place or environment.
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A set of objects of graduated size that can be stacked together, each fitting within the one immediately larger.
A nest of tables.
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A cluster of similar things.
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To hunt for birds' nests, especially in order to collect the eggs.
verb
To fit one inside another.
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To place in or as if in a nest.
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The structure made or the place chosen by birds for laying their eggs and sheltering their young.
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A brood, swarm, or colony of birds, insects, etc.
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A set or series of similar things, each fitting within the one next larger.
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The place used by turtles, hornets, fish, etc. for spawning or breeding.
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The structure made or the place chosen by any of certain wild animals as its home.
A squirrel's nest.
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A haunt or den.
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The people who frequent such a place.
A nest of criminals.
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To build or live in or as in a nest.
verb
To fit one into another.
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To hunt for birds' nests.
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To make a nest for.
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To place or settle in or as in a nest.
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To fit (an object) closely within another.
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(comput.) To embed (a loop, subroutine, etc.) between the first and last instructions of another.
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A structure or shelter made or used by a bird to hold its eggs during incubation and to house its young until fledged.
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A structure or shelter in which other animals, such as reptiles, fish, or insects, deposit their eggs or tend their young.
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A structure or complex built by ants, termites, or other social animals to house a colony.
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A number of insects, birds, or other animals occupying a nest.
Attacked by a nest of hornets.
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To build or occupy a nest.
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A home that a child or young adult shares with a parent, guardian, or a person acting in the capacity of a parent or guardian. A parental home.
I am aspiring to leave the nest.
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(computing) A structure consisting of nested structures, such as nested loops or nested subroutine calls.
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(geology) An aggregated mass of any ore or mineral, in an isolated state, within a rock.
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A collection of boxes, cases, or the like, of graduated size, each put within the one next larger.
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A compact group of pulleys, gears, springs, etc., working together or collectively.
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I bought a set of nesting mixing bowls for mom.
verb
To place one thing neatly inside another, and both inside yet another (so on).
There would be much more room in the attic if you had nested all the empty boxes.
verb
To build or occupy a nest.
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To create and settle into a warm and secure refuge.
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To put snugly together or inside one another.
To nest boxes.
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Origin of nest
- Middle English from Old English sed- in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
- From Old English nest, from Proto-Germanic *nestaz, from Proto-Indo-European *nisdós (“nest"), a compound of *ni (“down") and the zero-grade of the root *sed- (“to sit") (whence also English sit).
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