Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word NEST

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Definitions of NEST

1. A structure built by a bird as a place to incubate eggs and rear young.
2. A place used by another mammal, 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 circular bed of pasta, rice, etc. to be topped or filled with other foods.
8. A collection of boxes, cases, or the like, of graduated size, each put within the one next larger.
9. A compact group of pulleys, gears, springs, etc., working together or collectively.
10. (cards) 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.
11. (military) A fortified position for a weapon.
12. (computing) A structure consisting of nested structures, such as nested loops or nested subroutine calls.
13. (geology) An aggregated mass of any ore or mineral, in an isolated state, within a rock.
14. (vulgar, slang, now, US) The pubic hair near a vulva or a vulva itself.
15. (intransitive, of animals) To build or settle into a nest.
16. (intransitive) To settle into a home.
17. (intransitive) To successively neatly fit inside another.
18. (transitive) To place in, or as if in, a nest.
19. (transitive) To place one thing neatly inside another, and both inside yet another (and so on).
20. (intransitive) To hunt for birds' nests or their contents (usually "go nesting").
21. A surname.
22. (education) Initialism of native English-speaking teacher.

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Examples of Using NEST in a Sentence

• The story relates his early life at Larch's orphanage in Maine and follows Homer as he eventually leaves the nest and comes of age.
• He began writing One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest in 1960 after completing a graduate fellowship in creative writing at Stanford University; the novel was an immediate commercial and critical success when published two years later.
• They nest in slight depressions called forms, and their young are able to fend for themselves shortly after birth.
• He received two Academy Awards for Best Director for the psychological drama One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) and the biographical drama Amadeus (1984).
• Double steaming, sometimes called double boiling, is a Chinese cooking technique to prepare delicate food such as bird's nest soup and shark fin soup.
• The larger species nest on the surface, while most smaller species nest in natural cavities and burrows.
• His mother was Angharad FitzGerald, a daughter of Gerald FitzWalter of Windsor, Constable of Pembroke Castle, and his wife Nest ferch Rhys, daughter of Rhys ap Tewdwr, the last King of South Wales.
• There, while hunting, he followed his arrow and suddenly found himself face-to-face with a fierce, white eagle guarding its nest from intruders.
• Many species nest on buildings and the house and Eurasian tree sparrows, in particular, inhabit cities in large numbers.
• Yoni appears in the Rigveda and other Vedic literature in the sense of feminine life-creating regenerative and reproductive organs, as well as in the sense of "source, origin, fountain, place of birth, womb, nest, abode, fire pit of incubation".
• In 1975, Douglas produced One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, having acquired the rights to the Ken Kesey novel from his father.
• Nest building is considered a key adaptive advantage among birds, and they exhibit the most variation in their nests ranging from simple holes in the ground to elaborate communal nests hosting hundreds of individuals.
• In 2004, 27% of presidential votes were cast from incorporated Clarkston, while 61% was from unincorporated suburbs of Clarkston (34% from Clarkston Heights, 12% from West Clarkston, 9% from South Clarkston, and 6% from Swallows Nest).
• Crows Nest National Park is a national park on the edge of the Darling Downs of southern Queensland, Australia.
• He is known for his film roles in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), Terms of Endearment (1983), Head Office (1985), Ruthless People (1986), Throw Momma from the Train (1987), Twins (1988), The War of the Roses (1989), Batman Returns (1992), Jack the Bear (1993), Junior (1994), Matilda (1996), L.
• The Hopi Lavayi Nest Model Program, a pilot Hopi language revitalization project for families with children birth through age five was launched in the village of Sipaulovi.
• The region's bald eagles nest in the cottonwoods along the river and are a common sight in the late fall.
• Several seasonal beach communities are in Old Lyme, such as Point O' Woods, Hawk's Nest, and Miami Beach.
• In 1898, sculptor Lorado Taft founded the Eagle's Nest Art Colony on a bluff overlooking the Rock River, north of Oregon.
• Benjamin Prentiss, the Civil War General who was ordered by General William Tecumseh Sherman to hold the Hornet's Nest in the Battle of Shiloh, was postmaster of the town and is buried there.
• Located along the Enchanted Circle Scenic Byway, Eagle Nest is a small summer-home and resort destination.
• In Centerport, an example of this is the estate of William Kissam Vanderbilt II, otherwise known as Eagles Nest.
• The township includes the unincorporated communities of James City, Russell City, Nansen, Highland Corners, Sackett, Four Corners, Pine Camp, Pigs Ear, McKinley, and Owls Nest.
• There is a wildlife preserve where great egrets, sandhill cranes, and great blue herons are known to nest.
• The town is bordered to the north by the town of North Crows Nest and to the south by the town of Rocky Ripple.

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