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Word: nest (lookup usage) (lookup stats)


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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