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What does nest mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word nest? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. A structure built by a bird as a place to incubate eggs and rear young.
  2. A place used by another mammal, fish, amphibian or insect, for depositing eggs and hatching young.
  3. A snug, comfortable, or cozy residence or job situation.
  4. A retreat, or place of habitual resort.
  5. A hideout for bad people to frequent or haunt; a den.
  6. (card game) 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.
  7. (military) A fortified position for a weapon, e.g. a machine gun nest.
  8. (computing) A structure consisting of nested structures, such as nested loops or nested subroutine calls.
  9. A circular bed of pasta, rice, etc. to be topped or filled with other foods.
  10. (geology) An aggregated mass of any ore or mineral, in an isolated state, within a rock.
  11. A collection of boxes, cases, or the like, of graduated size, each put within the one next larger.
  12. A compact group of pulleys, gears, springs, etc., working together or collectively.
Verb
  1. (intransitive, of animals) To build or settle into a nest.
  2. (intransitive) To settle into a home.
  3. (intransitive) To successively neatly fit inside another.
  4. (transitive) To place in, or as if in, a nest.
  5. (transitive) To place one thing neatly inside another, and both inside yet another (and so on).
  6. (intransitive) To hunt for birds' nests or their contents (usually "go nesting").
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