nest

Signification (Anglais)

Noun

1. A structure built by a bird as a place to incubate eggs and rear young.
2. A place used by a monotreme, 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. (US, slang, vulgar) The pubic hair near a vulva or a vulva itself.

Verb

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

Concepts

nid

nicher

faire son nid

nidifier

emboîter

repaire

refuge

ruche

se nicher

se pelotonner

toile

chez-moi

nichée

nidification

noeud

antre

s'emboîter

caverne

chez-soi

🏠

couvoir

emménager

enchevêtrer

Synonymes

den

lair

hive

hole

🕳️

home

🏠

nidus

cage

beehive

nuzzle

burrow

snuggle

bird’s nest

roost

brood

box

📦

bed

🛏️

haunt

nestle

rookery

pack

build a nest

battery

🔋

bird-nest

strand

set

string

🪢

page

raft

width

knot

🪢

hiding place

dwelling

draw close

focal point

cuddle

dent

nesting place

hotbed

womb

busyness

bevy

business

bury

barrel

bunch

cocoon

building

coalition

clutter

build

Traductions

Nest

nido

nido

nest

ninho

niu

φωλιά

φωλιάζω

nestelen

nidificare

yuva

anidar

hêlîn

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/nɛst/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: nest

Hérité de ancien anglais: nest

Appartenant à anglais: nether

Appartenant à anglais: sit

Hérité de moyen anglais: nesten

Hérité de ancien anglais: nistan

Appartenant à saterlandais: näästje

Appartenant à néerlandais: nesten

Appartenant à allemand: nisten

In summary

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.

Small numbers of seabirds nest on the coastal cliffs .

Un petit nombre d'oiseaux de mer niche sur les falaises côtières.

It's an ill bird that fouls its own nest .

C'est un oiseau malade qui accroche son propre nid.