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