nest

Bedeutung (Englisch)

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 cosy 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. A home that a child or young adult shares with a parent or guardian.
7. 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.
8. A fortified position for a weapon.
9. A structure consisting of nested structures, such as nested loops or nested subroutine calls.
10. A circular bed of pasta, rice, etc. to be topped or filled with other foods.
11. An aggregated mass of any ore or mineral, in an isolated state, within a rock.
12. A collection of boxes, cases, or the like, of graduated size, each put within the one next larger.
13. A compact group of pulleys, gears, springs, etc., working together or collectively.
14. (slang) The pubic hair near a vulva or a vulva itself.

Verb

1. To build or settle into a nest.
2. To settle into a home.
3. To successively neatly fit inside another.
4. To place in, or as if in, a nest.
5. To place one thing neatly inside another, and both inside yet another (and so on).
6. To hunt for birds' nests or their contents (usually "go nesting").

Konzepte

Nest

nisten

verschachteln

Vogelnest

Horst

Brutplatz

Brutstätte

Einbettung

im Nest bleiben

bewohnen

leben

wohnen

Heim

Zuhause

einnisten

Höhle

Herde

Meute

Pack

Rotte

Rudel

Schafherde

Schule

Schwarm

Sprung

Teuerling

Tiegelteuerling

Ausgesprochen als (IPA)

/nɛst/

Etymologie (Englisch)

From Middle English nest, nist, nyst, from Old English nest, from Proto-West Germanic *nest, from Proto-Germanic *nestą, from Proto-Indo-European *nisdós (“nest”), literally "where [the bird] sits down", a compound of *ni (“down”) (whence also English nether) + the zero-grade of the root *sed- (“to sit”) (whence also English sit).

Sätze

Satin bowerbirds nest between October and February .

Satin Bowerbirds Nest zwischen Oktober und Februar.