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Word: nest
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Meaning:
Noun:
- A hideout for bad people to frequent or haunt.
- 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.
- A place used by another mammal, fish, amphibian or insect, for depositing eggs and hatching young.
- A retreat, or place of habitual resort.
- A snug, comfortable, or cozy residence or job situation.
- A structure built by a bird as a place to incubate eggs and rear young.
- cards 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.
- rfv-sense computing A structure in a programming code, like blocks, functions, subroutines, etc.
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Verb:
- of animals To build or settle into a nest.
- intransitive To settle into a home.
- intransitive To successively neatly fit inside another.
- 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).
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