Nest meaning

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A group of weapons in a prepared position.

A machine-gun nest.

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A brood, swarm, or colony of birds, insects, etc.
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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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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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A place affording snug refuge or lodging; a home.
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To hunt for birds' nests, especially in order to collect the eggs.
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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 cozy or snug place in which to live or rest; retreat.
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A set or series of similar things, each fitting within the one next larger.
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To build or live in or as in a nest.
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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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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 structure built by a bird as a place to incubate eggs and rear young.
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A place used by another mammal, fish, amphibian or insect, for depositing eggs and hatching young.
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A snug, comfortable, or cozy residence or job situation.
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A retreat, or place of habitual resort.
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A hideout for bad people to frequent or haunt; a den.

A nest of thieves.

That nightclub is a nest of strange people!

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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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(card games) A fixed amount of cards in some bidding games awarded to the highest bidder allowing him to exchange any or all with cards in his hand.

I was forced to change trumps when I found the ace, jack, and nine of diamonds in the nest.

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(military) A fortified position for a weapon, e.g. a machine gun nest.
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(computing) A structure consisting of nested structures, such as nested loops or nested subroutine calls.
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Pasta formed into a round shape.
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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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(intransitive, of animals) To build or settle into a nest.
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(intransitive) To settle into a home.

We loved the new house and were nesting there in 2 days!

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(intransitive) To successively neatly fit inside another.

I bought a set of nesting mixing bowls for mom.

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To place in, or as if in, a nest.
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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.

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(intransitive) To hunt for birds' nests or their contents (usually "go nesting").
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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).
    From Wiktionary

Nest Sentence Examples

  • A bird built a nest in the flower box and it has little baby birds!

  • The tenant of the air, it seemed related to the earth but by an egg hatched some time in the crevice of a crag;--or was its native nest made in the angle of a cloud, woven of the rainbow's trimmings and the sunset sky, and lined with some soft midsummer haze caught up from earth?

  • Within the nest, the leaves are cut into very minute fragments.

  • She makes her nest on the ground.

  • More thunder boomed.  Katie wondered what other kinds of storms the underworld might have.  Would it rain something other than black water?  With her luck, it'd rain bugs, like the beetle nest she skirted.

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