nest

Signification

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").

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/nɛst/

Étymologie

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).

Phrases

Satin bowerbirds nest between October and February .

Les oiseaux de bower satin nichent entre octobre et février.