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nest
  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.
  13. Synonyms:
  14. Examples:
    1. “The female stays on the nest and broods the young for the first week or so after they hatch.”
      “In others, it may include completion of a rite of passage, such as getting buried up to your chin in an ant nest on your thirteenth birthday.”
      “No sooner are you snug in your new nest than you find that units on your floor are being used as a hotel, with people coming and going.”
nester
  1. One who nests.
  2. (US, historical) A person who intends to settle in an area without permanent residents; a settler, as distinct from an explorer or pioneer.
  3. Examples:
    1. “Mostly I'm looking forward to being just 40 something when I'm an empty nester.”
      “A late nester, the female Gadwall picks the nest site, which is usually near water and surrounded by dense weeds or grass.”
      “My temperament is equal parts nester and quester, but I need the former in order to sustain the latter.”
nestling
  1. A small bird that is still confined to the nest.
  2. (obsolete) A nest; a receptacle.
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “Mating for life, the birds share the duties of feeding a young nestling by regurgitation.”
nesting
  1. The process by which a bird nests.
  2. (computing) The enclosure of one loop, block, etc. of code inside another.
nestler
  1. One who nestles.
  2. A nestling; a young bird in the nest.
  3. Examples:
    1. “Like all lace chape makers whose images can be found in the 'Hausbucher der Nurnberger Zwolfbruderstiftung', Dyetz Nestler is depicted in Amb.”
      “Sherry Kroll, Jeffry Nestler, Mandeep Dhami, Dinesh Kapur and Dennis Slater.”
nestmate
  1. One with which a nest is shared, such as a baby bird and its siblings or figuratively a child with children it is raised with.
nestmaking
nestbuilding
nestful
  1. As much or many as will fill a nest.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “To charm wavering Tories, the Lib Dems have grabbed a nestful of shiny rightwing policies.”
      “See a nestful of newly hatched wood ducks being told to take a 15-foot jump to join their mother in the lake below.”
      “The number of feeding trips per day for a pair with a nestful of six young varied from 119, two days after hatching, to 353 trips per day 18 days after hatching.”
nestling
  1. The act of one who nestles.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Mating for life, the birds share the duties of feeding a young nestling by regurgitation.”
nestlet
  1. A little nest.
nestlings
  1. plural of nestling
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The hatchlings have a beak with a raptorial hook that they use to stab host nestlings.”
      “Other studies even showed that nestlings fed by people were less afraid of new things until age 6 months than were birds reared by their parents.”
      “After hatching, the altricial nestlings are brooded for 1 to 2 weeks depending on the weather.”
nestmates
  1. plural of nestmate
nestfuls
nestings
  1. plural of nesting
nestlers
  1. plural of nestler
nestlets
  1. plural of nestlet
nestsful
nesters
  1. plural of nester
nests
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