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nest
A structure built by a bird as a place to incubate eggs and rear young.
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All Definitions for Nest

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1A structure built by a bird as a place to incubate eggs and rear young.
2A place used by a monotreme, fish, amphibian or insect, for depositing eggs and hatching young.
3A snug, comfortable, or cosy residence or job situation.
4A home that a child or young adult shares with a parent or guardian.
5A hideout for bad people to frequent or haunt
6A den.
7A retreat, or place of habitual resort.
8To build or settle into a nest.
9To settle into a home.
10To place in, or as if in, a nest.
11To place one thing neatly inside another, and both inside yet another (and so on).
12To successively neatly fit inside another.
13A 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.
14A structure consisting of nested structures, such as nested loops or nested subroutine calls.
15A collection of boxes, cases, or the like, of graduated size, each put within the one next larger.
16A compact group of pulleys, gears, springs, etc., working together or collectively.
17A circular bed of pasta, rice, etc. to be topped or filled with other foods.
18An aggregated mass of any ore or mineral, in an isolated state, within a rock.
19The pubic hair near a vulva or a vulva itself.
20A fortified position for a weapon.
21To hunt for birds' nests or their contents (usually "go nesting").
22A surname from German or Welsh.
23Initialism of native English-speaking teacher.

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About synonyms for nest

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