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N0066600 (nĕst)n.1. a. A structure or shelter made or used by a bird to hold its eggs during incubation and to house its young until fledged.b. A structure or shelter in which other animals, such as reptiles, fish, or insects, deposit their eggs or tend their young.c. A structure or complex built by ants, termites, or other social animals to house a colony.d. A number of insects, birds, or other animals occupying a nest: attacked by a nest of hornets.2. A place affording snug refuge or lodging; a home.3. a. A place or environment that fosters rapid growth or development, especially of something undesirable; a hotbed: a nest of criminal activity.b. Those who occupy or frequent such a place or environment.4. a. A set of objects of graduated size that can be stacked together, each fitting within the one immediately larger: a nest of tables.b. A cluster of similar things.5. A group of weapons in a prepared position: a machine-gun nest.v. nest·ed, nest·ing, nests v.intr.1. To build or occupy a nest.2. To create and settle into a warm and secure refuge.3. To hunt for birds' nests, especially in order to collect the eggs.4. To fit one inside another.v.tr.1. To place in or as if in a nest.2. To put snugly together or inside one another: to nest boxes.

[Middle English, from Old English; see sed- in Indo-European roots.]

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(nɛst) n1. (Zoology) a place or structure in which birds, fishes, insects, reptiles, mice, etc, lay eggs or give birth to young2. (Zoology) a number of animals of the same species and their young occupying a common habitat: an ants' nest. 3. a place fostering something undesirable: a nest of thievery. 4. the people in such a place: a nest of thieves. 5. a cosy or secluded place6. a set of things, usually of graduated sizes, designed to fit together: a nest of tables. 7. (Military) military a weapon emplacement: a machine-gun nest. vb8. (intr) to make or inhabit a nest9. (intr) to hunt for birds' nests10. (tr) to place in a nest[Old English; related to Latin nīdus (nest) and to beneath, sit] ˈnester n ˈnestˌlike adj

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n. 1. a bowl-shaped or pocketlike structure, often of twigs, grasses, and mud, prepared by a bird for incubating eggs and rearing young. 2. any structure or shelter used for depositing eggs or raising young. 3. a number of birds, insects, animals, etc., inhabiting one such place. 4. a snug retreat or refuge; resting place; home. 5. an assemblage of things lying or set close together. 6. a set of items, often of graduated size, that fit close together or one within another: a nest of tables. 7. a set of items or parts forming a hierarchical structure, with larger parts enclosing smaller ones. 8. a place where something bad is fostered or flourishes: a nest of thieves. 9. the occupants or frequenters of such a place. v.i. 10. to build or have a nest: to nest in trees. 11. to settle in or as if in a nest. 12. to fit together or one within another: bowls that nest easily for storage. 13. to search for or collect nests. v.t. 14. to settle or place (something) in or as if in a nest. 15. to fit or place one within another. [before 900; Middle English, Old English; c. Old Saxon, Dutch, Old High German, German nest; akin to Latin nīdus, Old Irish net, Welsh nyth nest, Skt nīḍa lair] nest′er, n. nest′like`, adj.

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- From Indo-European nizdos, literally "(place where the bird) sits down."See also related terms for sits.

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a number or collection of people; a number of birds or insects gathered in the same place; an accumulation of similar objects; a number of buildings or streets; a set of objects. See also aerie, bike, brood, swarm.

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Past participle: nested
Gerund: nesting

Imperative
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Present
I nest
you nest
he/she/it nests
we nest
you nest
they nest

Preterite
I nested
you nested
he/she/it nested
we nested
you nested
they nested

Present Continuous
I am nesting
you are nesting
he/she/it is nesting
we are nesting
you are nesting
they are nesting

Present Perfect
I have nested
you have nested
he/she/it has nested
we have nested
you have nested
they have nested

Past Continuous
I was nesting
you were nesting
he/she/it was nesting
we were nesting
you were nesting
they were nesting

Past Perfect
I had nested
you had nested
he/she/it had nested
we had nested
you had nested
they had nested

Future
I will nest
you will nest
he/she/it will nest
we will nest
you will nest
they will nest

Future Perfect
I will have nested
you will have nested
he/she/it will have nested
we will have nested
you will have nested
they will have nested

Future Continuous
I will be nesting
you will be nesting
he/she/it will be nesting
we will be nesting
you will be nesting
they will be nesting

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been nesting
you have been nesting
he/she/it has been nesting
we have been nesting
you have been nesting
they have been nesting

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been nesting
you will have been nesting
he/she/it will have been nesting
we will have been nesting
you will have been nesting
they will have been nesting

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been nesting
you had been nesting
he/she/it had been nesting
we had been nesting
you had been nesting
they had been nesting

Conditional
I would nest
you would nest
he/she/it would nest
we would nest
you would nest
they would nest

Past Conditional
I would have nested
you would have nested
he/she/it would have nested
we would have nested
you would have nested
they would have nested

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	nest - a structure in which animals lay eggs or give birth to their youngnatural object - an object occurring naturally; not made by manbeehive, hive - a structure that provides a natural habitation for bees; as in a hollow treebird nest, birdnest, bird's nest - nest where birds lay their eggs and hatch their youngdrey - the nest of a squirrelmouse nest, mouse's nest - where mice bear and raise their youngnidus - a nest in which spiders or insects deposit their eggs
	2.	nest - a kind of gun emplacement; "a machine-gun nest"; "a nest of snipers"gun emplacement, weapons emplacement - an emplacement for a gun
	3.	nest - a cosy or secluded retreatretreat - a place of privacy; a place affording peace and quiet
	4.	nest - a gang of people (criminals or spies or terrorists) assembled in one locality; "a nest of thieves"act of terrorism, terrorism, terrorist act - the calculated use of violence (or the threat of violence) against civilians in order to attain goals that are political or religious or ideological in nature; this is done through intimidation or coercion or instilling feargang, mob, pack, ring - an association of criminals; "police tried to break up the gang"; "a pack of thieves"sleeper nest - a nest of sleepers awaiting a prearranged signal; "sleeper nests of Islamic terrorists were capable of launching major attacks in Europe"
	5.	nest - furniture pieces made to fit close togetherarticle of furniture, furniture, piece of furniture - furnishings that make a room or other area ready for occupancy; "they had too much furniture for the small apartment"; "there was only one piece of furniture in the room"
Verb	1.	nest - inhabit a nest, usually after building; "birds are nesting outside my window every Spring"inhabit, live, populate, dwell - inhabit or live in; be an inhabitant of; "People lived in Africa millions of years ago"; "The people inhabited the islands that are now deserted"; "this kind of fish dwells near the bottom of the ocean"; "deer are populating the woods"
	2.	nest - fit together or fit inside; "nested bowls"embed, imbed, implant, plant, engraft - fix or set securely or deeply; "He planted a knee in the back of his opponent"; "The dentist implanted a tooth in the gum"
	3.	nest - move or arrange oneself in a comfortable and cozy position; "We cuddled against each other to keep warm"; "The children snuggled into their sleeping bags"cuddle, draw close, nestle, nuzzle, snugglecling to, hold close, hold tight, clutch - hold firmly, usually with one's hands; "She clutched my arm when she got scared"snuggle, nestle - position comfortably; "The baby nestled her head in her mother's elbow"draw close - pull towards oneself; "He drew the crying child close"
	4.	nest - gather nestsgather, pull together, collect, garner - assemble or get together; "gather some stones"; "pull your thoughts together"

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noun1. roost, eyrie I can see an eagle's nest on the rocks.2. lair, den, burrow He discovered a rats' nest built from the remains of cardboard boxes.3. refuge, resort, retreat, haunt, den, hideaway He moved into a £2,000-a-month love nest with his blonde mistress.4. hotbed, den, breeding-ground Biarritz was notorious in those days as a nest of spies.

Translations

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(nest) noun a structure or place in which birds (and some animals and insects) hatch or give birth to and look after their young. The swallows are building a nest under the roof of our house; a wasp's nest.巢 verb to build a nest and live in it. A pair of robins are nesting in that bush.筑巢ˈnestling (-liŋ) noun a young bird (still in the nest). 雏鸟ˈnest-egg noun a sum of money saved up for the future. 储备金feather one's (own) nestfeather

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structure for the reception and incubation of the eggs of birds, reptiles, insects, and some fish or for the parturition of mammals, and also for the care of the young during their period of helplessness. Chimpanzees, orangutan, and gorillas build nests to sleep in each night. Birds are the chief nest builders, exhibiting great variety and ingenuity among the different species. The type of nest depends on the environment and the condition of the young when hatched. Altricial birds, whose young are generally blind, naked, and helpless on hatching, usually build higher and more elaborate nests than do precocial birds, whose young have a downy covering and are able to move about and feed themselves soon after emerging from the egg. Most sea birds, shore birds, and game birds do not build real nests but lay their eggs directly on a rocky ledge or in a shallow depression scooped out of the earth or sand. Woodpeckers and parrots nest inside hollow trees, as do the Old World hornbills; the male hornbill seals the female into the cavity, leaving an aperture only large enough for him to feed her as she incubates the eggs. Sand martins and kingfishers dig tunnels into shore banks, with enlarged nesting chambers at the ends. The stork's nest is a simple platform of sticks, and the eagle's aerie, built in tree tops or on cliffs, may be 5 to 12 ft (1.5–3.7 m) in diameter; both birds add to their nests each year. As a general rule, the smaller the bird the more elaborate is the nest. Among passerine (perching) birds the male usually selects the feeding and nesting territory, while the female chooses the nest site. In many species the duties of nest building and incubating are shared. The nest is usually bowl-shaped and composed of twigs, grass, leaves, and (when available) bits of cloth and string; thrushes line their nests with clay. Intricately woven, pendent, arboreal nests give the American oriole its alternate name, hangnest; the Old World weaverbirds' nests are similar, with one species building immense communal structures housing up to 600 birds. Swallows, ovenbirds, and flamingos build nests of mud cemented with saliva, and an Oriental swift builds its nest entirely of a salivary secretion (used to make bird's-nest soup by the Chinese). The turkeylike megapode, or mound bird, of Australia leaves its eggs in a pile of decaying vegetation, which provides the heat to incubate them; it is the only bird to share this nesting method with the reptiles. Among the insects, ants, bees, and wasps are well known for their nests. Some fish (e.g., the stickleback) build nests of weeds. Most rodents (e.g., mice and squirrels) are nesters; rabbits line their nests with down, as do ducks and geese. The den or lair of the larger mammals (e.g., wolves and lions) serves the same function as a nest.

Bibliography

See P. Goodfellow, Avian Architecture (2011).

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a structure built by animals for raising offspring, and less frequently, for protection.

Nests intended for reproduction are found among the most varied animal groups. Invertebrates make various nests: the octopus prepares a pit in the ground, surrounded with an embankment of rocks and shells; spiders make cocoons of spider web; leaf rollers make cocoons of twisted woody leaves; solitary wasps and bees make cells of earth bonded with saliva. Peculiar spun nests are constructed by the caterpillars of the pierid butterfly and the brown-tail moth.

The nests of vertebrates are also varied. The salmon buries its eggs in pebbles, the goby fish puts them in a nest made of stones, and the trident stickleback deposits them in a nest of seaweed. The Hylambates maculatus frog wraps leaves into a tube for its nest; the crocodile and the turtle bury their eggs in soil.

Bird nests are particularly diverse. Fowl and snipes have simple pits with scanty lining; gulls, merely a heap of plant residue with a trough in the middle. Many other birds build durable structures of cuplike form. Some birds native to the USSR (wrens, titmouse family) and many tropical types (particularly among the weaverbirds) have nests that are enclosed and circular, oval, or flask-shaped, with side entrances, and are frequently open at the end of an elongated neck. Bird nests are placed in a wide range of locations, and construction materials also vary greatly. For example, the swallow fastens pieces of earth together with saliva to make its nest, and certain swifts make their entire nests of saliva, which hardens on contact with air; inhabitants of southern Asia use these swift nests for food. Among mammals, it is chiefly rodents that make nests, and the most carefully done are the round nests made from grass blades and plant fluff by the harvest mouse; similar to these are the nests of the dormouse and squirrel. Beavers make their nests of branches and mud; muskrats use grass and swamp growth.

Most animals place their nests separately. Nesting colonies are peculiar to social insects, such as wasps, bees, ants, and termites. Their extensive nests with many chambers are very complex. Wasps have several single-staged combs, enclosed in a common cover of “paper” made by the wasps out of masticated wood fiber. Bees make their nests of wax, and ants of plant residue and earth. Termites construct enormous nests, as high as 7 or 8 meters, from earth and masticated wood. Nesting in colonies is found among auks, gulls, rooks, and herons, which place their individual nests in close proximity to each other in unified colonies. Some tropical birds, such as the sociable grosbeak, build nest colonies in the form of large structures in which individual pairs place their separate nests. Mixed nesting by separate species is a relatively rare phenomenon. It is found among red and brown wood ants, which live in a single nest, and also among eagles and sparrows; the latter sometimes make their nests in the walls of eagle nests. An extremely rare occurrence is symbiotic nesting, found among termites and ants—for example, aphids and other insects live in ant nests as symbionts.

Nests ordinarily serve for one reproductive season, but termites, bees, wasps, ants, and certain large birds which make their nests of branches return to the same nests for many years. In a number of species, nests also serve as places of protection—for example, for birds that build in hollow trees or build insulated enclosed nests, such as sparrows and wrens. The same is true of dormice, squirrels, and musk-rats. The winter nests of field mice, built under the snow, serve only as protection.

REFERENCES

Shvanvich, B. N. Kurs obshchei entomologii. Moscow-Leningrad, 1949.
Formozov, A. N. Sputnik siedopyta, part 3. Moscow, 1952.
Mikheev, A. V. Kak ptitsy stroiat gnezda. Moscow, 1968.
Zhizn’ zhivotnykh, vols. 1-5. Moscow, 1968-71.

A. V. MIKHEEV

What does it mean when you dream about a nest?

To see a nest or to be building a nest may indicate that a new home is being prepared or built. A strong sense of homemaking, or having the “nesting” instinct, occurs when a woman is pregnant. A desire to go home may be expressed by this dream symbol.

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[nest] (computer science) To include data or subroutines in other items of a similar nature with a higher hierarchical level so that it is possible to access or execute various levels of data or routines recursively. (geology) A concentration of some relatively conspicuous element of a geologic feature, such as pebbles or inclusions, within a sand layer or igneous rock. (vertebrate zoology) Abed, receptacle, or location in which the eggs of animals are laid and hatched.

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1. a place or structure in which birds, fishes, insects, reptiles, mice, etc., lay eggs or give birth to young 2. a number of animals of the same species and their young occupying a common habitat

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(1) (Nest Labs) See Alphabet.

(2) (NEST) (Novell Embedded Systems Technology) Extensions to NetWare 4.x that provided networking to office machines and consumer products. Originally touted as a connectivity protocol for everything from a VCR to a TV, NEST was primarily used in millions of print servers and some fax servers, implementing Novell's QMS printing protocol. See QMS.

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noun roost

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noun lair

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noun refuge

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noun hotbed

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noun a structure in which animals lay eggs or give birth to their young

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noun a kind of gun emplacement

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noun a cosy or secluded retreat

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noun a gang of people (criminals or spies or terrorists) assembled in one locality

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noun furniture pieces made to fit close together

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verb inhabit a nest, usually after building

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verb fit together or fit inside

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verb move or arrange oneself in a comfortable and cozy position

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verb gather nests

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