nest
see also: Nest, NEST
Pronunciation
Nest
Etymology
NEST
Noun
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see also: Nest, NEST
Pronunciation
- IPA: /nɛst/
From Middle English nest, nist, nyst, from Old English nest, from Proto-West Germanic *nest, from Proto-Germanic *nestą, from Proto-Indo-European *nisdós, literally "where [the bird] sits down", a compound of *ni (whence also English nether) + the zero-grade of the root *sed- (whence also English sit).
Nounnest (plural nests)
- A structure built by a bird as a place to incubate eggs and rear young.
- A place used by another mammal, fish, amphibian or insect, for depositing eggs and hatching young.
- A snug, comfortable, or cosy residence or job situation.
- A retreat, or place of habitual resort.
- A hideout for bad people to frequent or haunt; a den.
- a nest of thieves
- That nightclub is a nest of strange people!
- 1724, Charles Johnson [pseudonym], “Of Capt. Edward England, and His Crew. [A Letter from Captain Makra, dated at Bombay, Nov. 16, 1720.]”, in A General History of the Pyrates, […], 2nd edition, London: Printed for, and sold by T. Warner, […], →OCLC ↗, page 119 ↗:
- 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.
- (cards) 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.
- (military) A fortified position for a weapon.
- a machine gun nest
- (computing) A structure consisting of nested structures, such as nested loops or nested subroutine calls.
- 1993 August, Bwolen Yang et al., "Do&Merge: Integrating Parallel Loops and Reductions", in Languages and Compilers for Parallel Computing (workshop proceedings), Springer (1994), ISBN 978-3-540-57659-4, page 178 ↗:
- Our analysis to this point has assumed that in a loop nest, we are only parallelizing a single loop.
- 1993 August, Bwolen Yang et al., "Do&Merge: Integrating Parallel Loops and Reductions", in Languages and Compilers for Parallel Computing (workshop proceedings), Springer (1994), ISBN 978-3-540-57659-4, page 178 ↗:
- A circular bed of pasta, rice, etc. to be topped or filled with other foods.
- (geology) 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 next larger.
- A compact group of pulleys, gears, springs, etc., working together or collectively.
- (vulgar, slang, now, US) The pubic hair near a vulva or a vulva itself.
- Synonyms: beav, beaver
- French: nid, chez-soi, chez-moi
- German: Nest
- Italian: nido
- Portuguese: ninho
- Russian: гнёздышко
- Spanish: nido
- French: refuge
- German: Nest
- Italian: nido
- Portuguese: retiro
- Russian: приста́нище
- French: repaire
- German: Nest
- Italian: nido
- Portuguese: covil, esconderijo
- Russian: прито́н
- Spanish: cueva
- German: Nest
From Middle English nesten, nisten, from Old English nistan, nistian, from Proto-West Germanic *nistijan.
Verbnest (nests, present participle nesting; simple past and past participle nested)
- (intransitive, of animals) To build or settle into a nest.
- (intransitive) To settle into a home.
- We loved the new house and were nesting there in two days!
- (intransitive) To successively neatly fit inside another.
- I bought a set of nesting mixing bowls for my mother.
- (transitive) To place in, or as if in, a nest.
- (transitive) 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.
- (intransitive) To hunt for birds' nests or their contents (usually "go nesting").
- 1895, Alfred Emanuel Smith, Francis Walton, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
- After the first heavy frost, when acorns were falling, I took a friend into partnership and went nesting.
- French: nicher, nidifier
- German: nisten, einnisten
- Italian: annidarsi
- Portuguese: aninhar, fazer ninho
- Russian: гнездова́ться
- Spanish: anidar
- French: emménager
- Portuguese: mudar-se
- French: s'emboîter
- Portuguese: encaixar
Nest
Etymology
Two possible origins:
- Welsh - metronymic surname, from a diminutive of the personal name Agnes.
- Borrowed from German Nest, probably a topographic surname.
NEST
Noun
nest (plural nests)
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