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▸ noun: A structure built by a bird as a place to incubate eggs and rear young.
▸ noun: A place used by another mammal, fish, amphibian or insect, for depositing eggs and hatching young.
▸ noun: A snug, comfortable, or cosy residence or job situation.
▸ noun: A retreat, or place of habitual resort.
▸ noun: A hideout for bad people to frequent or haunt; a den.
▸ noun: A home that a child or young adult shares with a parent or guardian.
▸ noun: (card games) 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.
▸ noun: (military) A fortified position for a weapon.
▸ noun: (computing) A structure consisting of nested structures, such as nested loops or nested subroutine calls.
▸ noun: A circular bed of pasta, rice, etc. to be topped or filled with other foods.
▸ noun: (geology) An aggregated mass of any ore or mineral, in an isolated state, within a rock.
▸ noun: A collection of boxes, cases, or the like, of graduated size, each put within the one next larger.
▸ noun: A compact group of pulleys, gears, springs, etc., working together or collectively.
▸ noun: (vulgar, slang, now US) The pubic hair near a vulva or a vulva itself.
▸ verb: (intransitive, of animals) To build or settle into a nest.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To settle into a home.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To successively neatly fit inside another.
▸ verb: (transitive) To place in, or as if in, a nest.
▸ verb: (transitive) To place one thing neatly inside another, and both inside yet another (and so on).
▸ verb: (intransitive) To hunt for birds' nests or their contents (usually "go nesting").
▸ noun: A surname from German or Welsh.
▸ noun: (education) Initialism of native English-speaking teacher.
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▸ noun: A structure built by a bird as a place to incubate eggs and rear young.
▸ noun: A place used by another mammal, fish, amphibian or insect, for depositing eggs and hatching young.
▸ noun: A snug, comfortable, or cosy residence or job situation.
▸ noun: A retreat, or place of habitual resort.
▸ noun: A hideout for bad people to frequent or haunt; a den.
▸ noun: A home that a child or young adult shares with a parent or guardian.
▸ noun: (card games) 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.
▸ noun: (military) A fortified position for a weapon.
▸ noun: (computing) A structure consisting of nested structures, such as nested loops or nested subroutine calls.
▸ noun: A circular bed of pasta, rice, etc. to be topped or filled with other foods.
▸ noun: (geology) An aggregated mass of any ore or mineral, in an isolated state, within a rock.
▸ noun: A collection of boxes, cases, or the like, of graduated size, each put within the one next larger.
▸ noun: A compact group of pulleys, gears, springs, etc., working together or collectively.
▸ noun: (vulgar, slang, now US) The pubic hair near a vulva or a vulva itself.
▸ verb: (intransitive, of animals) To build or settle into a nest.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To settle into a home.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To successively neatly fit inside another.
▸ verb: (transitive) To place in, or as if in, a nest.
▸ verb: (transitive) To place one thing neatly inside another, and both inside yet another (and so on).
▸ verb: (intransitive) To hunt for birds' nests or their contents (usually "go nesting").
▸ noun: A surname from German or Welsh.
▸ noun: (education) Initialism of native English-speaking teacher.
Similar:
birdnest,
bird's nest,
birdsnest,
nest egg,
nestler,
nidificant,
nestlet,
hive nest,
bird-nest,
birds'-nesting,
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Types:
seabird nest,
wren nest,
cavity nest,
cup nest,
platform nest,
pendant nest,
mound nest,
scrape nest,
sock nest,
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