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1.nounA structure built by a bird as a place to incubate eggs and rear young.
2.nounA place used by another mammal, fish, amphibian or insect, for depositing eggs and hatching young.
3.nounA snug, comfortable, or cosy residence or job situation.
4.nounA retreat, or place of habitual resort.
5.nounA hideout for bad people to frequent or haunt; a den."That nightclub is a nest of strange people!"
6.nounA home that a child or young adult shares with a parent or guardian."I am aspiring to leave the nest."
7.nounA 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."I was forced to change trumps when I found the ace, jack, and nine of diamonds in the nest."
8.nounA fortified position for a weapon.
9.nounA structure consisting of nested structures, such as nested loops or nested subroutine calls.
10.nounA circular bed of pasta, rice, etc. to be topped or filled with other foods.
11.nounAn aggregated mass of any ore or mineral, in an isolated state, within a rock.
12.nounA collection of boxes, cases, or the like, of graduated size, each put within the one next larger.
13.nounA compact group of pulleys, gears, springs, etc., working together or collectively.
14.verb(of animals) To build or settle into a nest.
15.verbTo settle into a home."We loved the new house and were nesting there in two days!"
16.verbTo successively neatly fit inside another."I bought a set of nesting mixing bowls for my mother."
17.verbTo place in, or as if in, a nest.
18.verbTo place one thing neatly inside another, and both inside yet another (and so on)."There would be much more room in the attic if you had nested all the empty boxes."
19.verbTo hunt for birds' nests or their contents (usually "go nesting").