nest
nounEtymology
From Middle English nest, nist, nyst, from Old English nest, from Proto-West Germanic *nest, from Proto-Germanic *nestą, from Proto-Indo-European *nisdós (“nest”), literally "where [the bird] sits down", a compound of *ni (“down”) (whence also English nether) + the zero-grade of the root *sed- (“to sit”) (whence also English sit).
Definitions
A structure built by a bird as a place to incubate eggs and rear young.
A place used by a monotreme, fish, amphibian or insect, for depositing eggs and hatching…
A place used by a monotreme, fish, amphibian or insect, for depositing eggs and hatching young.
A snug, comfortable, or cosy residence or job situation.
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A retreat, or place of habitual resort.
A hideout for bad people to frequent or haunt
A hideout for bad people to frequent or haunt; a den.
- a nest of thieves
- That nightclub is a nest of strange people!
- Capt. Kirby and I concluding it might be of great Service to the Eaſt-India Company to deſtroy such a Neſt of Rogues, were ready to ſail for that Purpoſe […]
A home that a child or young adult shares with a parent or guardian.
- I am aspiring to leave the nest.
A fixed number of cards in some bidding games awarded to the highest bidder allowing him…
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.
- I was forced to change trumps when I found the ace, jack, and nine of diamonds in the nest.
A fortified position for a weapon.
- a machine gun nest
A structure consisting of nested structures, such as nested loops or nested subroutine…
A structure consisting of nested structures, such as nested loops or nested subroutine calls.
- Subroutine 4 cannot jump out of the subroutine nest in one step. Each return address must be popped from the stack in the order in which it was pushed onto the stack.
- Our analysis to this point has assumed that in a loop nest, we are only parallelizing a single loop.
A circular bed of pasta, rice, etc. to be topped or filled with other foods.
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…
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.
The pubic hair near a vulva or a vulva itself.
To build or settle into a nest.
To settle into a home.
- We loved the new house and were nesting there in two days!
To successively neatly fit inside another.
- I bought a set of nesting mixing bowls for my mother.
To place in, or as if in, a nest.
To place one thing neatly inside another, and both inside yet another (and so on).
- There would be much more room in the attic if you had nested all the empty boxes.
To hunt for birds' nests or their contents (usually "go nesting").
- After the first heavy frost, when acorns were falling, I took a friend into partnership and went nesting.
A surname from German or Welsh.
Initialism of native English-speaking teacher.
The neighborhood
- neighbornestling
- neighborNest in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at nest. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at nest. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
8 hops · closes at nest
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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