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Date "NESTING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1808. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Chemical Industry | In reinforced plastics the placing of plies of fabric so that the yarns of one ply lie in the valleys between the yarns of the contiguous ply. Source: European Union. (references) |
Computing | A programme design technique in which a routine or subroutine contains a structure similar to itself. Source: European Union. (references) |
Food & Agriculture | Of planting or sowing, putting a number of seedlings or seeds close together in a prepared hole, pit or spot. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Inattention | Phrase: the attention wanders; one's wits gone a woolgathering, one's wits gone a bird's nesting; it never entered into one's head; the mind running on other things; one's thoughts being elsewhere; had it been a bear it would have bitten you. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: NESTING |
| English words defined with "NESTING": Ano ♦ crested swift ♦ nesting place ♦ tree swift ♦ Vespula maculifrons ♦ yellow hornet, yellow jacket. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "NESTING": block structured, Bottom Land Hardwoods ♦ CLU ♦ Forest-interior species ♦ last call optimisation, lexical scope ♦ NESTING OPERATOR, NUMERICAL CONTROL ♦ Prairie potholes ♦ static link ♦ UTILITY WORKER, MOLDING. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | It's nesting season (Born to Dance; writing credit: Buddy G. DeSylva; Jack McGowan) You will therefore be taken to the Dune Sea, and cast into the pit of Carkoon, the nesting place of the all-powerful Sarlaac (Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi; writing credit: George Lucas; Lawrence Kasdan) Ew, wouldn't want one of those nesting in your knickers (James and the Giant Peach; writing credit: Karey Kirkpatrick) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Nesting (1981) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Camp on eastern Lisianski Island Island was station for World Longitude Campaign Nesting place for albatross and other marine bird species Astro party of E. J. Brown. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Ospreys nesting along a Patuxent River duck blind. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
 | A Patuxent River Great Blue Heron nesting site, or "heronry.". Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | Jobos Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. Many birds use estuarine habitats as shelter areas during nesting season. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR). |
 | Sapelo Island National Estuarine Research Reserve. McIntosh County is home to a large nesting population of wood storks. Considered an endangered species, wood storks frequent both estuarine and fresh water systems. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR). |  | A blue-footed booby - Sula nebouxii and nesting waved albatross - Diomedea irrorata. Credit: Small World. |
 | Evenly spaced tern eggs on Helens Reef Island nesting ground. Credit: Small World. |  | Students at Centreville Middle School erect a duck nesting box as part of an outdoor classroom being built on the school grounds. Credit: Keith Weller. |
 | Prarie potholes provide an abundance of vital habitat for wildlife. The structure in this wetland provides a nesting area for Canadian geese. Credit: Tim McCabe. |  | Nesting Canada goose. Credit: USDA. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Play | Caption |
 | Cooing; nesting; coop. |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Elevate hay, woodpiles and garbage cans to eliminate possible nesting sites. (references) | |
Don't stir up dust by sweeping up or vacuuming up droppings, urine or nesting materials. (references) | ||
Clear brush, grass and junk from around house foundations to eliminate a source of nesting materials. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "NESTING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 72.99% of the time. "NESTING" is used about 174 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 72.99% | 127 | 28,395 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 17.82% | 31 | 62,296 |
| Noun (singular) | 6.32% | 11 | 106,044 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.3% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Noun (common) | 0.57% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 174 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "NESTING": go nesting ♦ Nesting Behavior ♦ nesting place ♦ one's wits gone a bird's nesting. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "NESTING": nesting-box, nesting-boxes, nesting-place. | |
Ending with "NESTING": bubble-nesting, ground-nesting, hole-nesting. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "NESTING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | shkatërroj fole (go nesting), kuti për shturë (nesting-box). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | ходя да търся гнезда (go nesting). (various references) | |
Danish | redebygning, parentesstruktur, oplaegningsanvisning, kappeplantning (bunching), indlejring (embedding). (various references) | |
Dutch | nidatie (nidation), nesting, nesten, nesteling, nestelen (nest), stofverdelingsschema, groepsgewijs planten (bunching). (various references) | |
Finnish | sisäkkäistäminen. (various references) | |
French | nidification, schéma de coupe, plantation en nids, inclusion, emboitement, emboîtement. (various references) | |
German | Verschachtelung, Schachtelung. (various references) | |
Greek | φώλιασμα. (various references) | |
Hebrew | ק ון (innidation, nidation). (various references) | |
Hungarian | beillesztés helye. (various references) | |
Italian | nidificazione, nesting, schema di taglio, intreccio (interlacement, intertwinement, mat, netting, plot, weaving), gerarchizzazione, annidamento di sottoprogrammi, annidamento (nidation), a mazzetto (bunching), a ciuffetto (bunching). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | ネオン管 (bottleneck, drip-dry, import restriction list, Is it so?, nack chain, Nebraska, neck, neckerchief, necking, necklace, neckline, necktie, necktie pin, necrophilia, necrophobia, nector, negative, negative color, neglect, negligee, negotiation, Nelson, neon tube, nepenta, nephron, nephrosis, nepotism, Neptune, neptunium, Nescafe, -ness, nest, nest table, Nestle, net, net ball, Net citizen, net in, net play, net price, net score, netball falling in, netizen, net-mask, nettopology, network, network administration, networker, networking, Nevada, Never give up!, Never happen, Never mind, next, no carbon, no-iron, permanent snowpatch, Really?, several tables inside each other, tie, wash and wear), 巣 り (hibernation). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | す"もり (hibernation), ネスティング . (various references) | |
Manx | troggal edd (nest), jannoo edd (nest), guirragh (broody, clucky, hatching, rotten, sitting, sitting of fowl). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | estingnay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | plantação em ãninhoã (bunching), encadeamento (catenation, contexture, dazzle, series), aninhamento. (various references) | |
Russian | вкладывать вложенность. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | traženje gnezda. (various references) | |
Spanish | siembra por golpes (bunching), plantación por golpes (bunching), jerarquización. (various references) | |
Swedish | plantering i grupp, kapsling (assembly, can, canning, canning process, clad, cladding, cladding process, enclosure, jacket, sealing, sheath, shield). (various references) | |
Turkish | folluk (nesting-box). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | укладання шлюпок одна в другу. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "NESTING": renesting, trapnesting. (additional references) | |
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"NESTING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: esting, nasting, nating, neating, neeting, Neltino, Nesin, nesing, nestegg, nestine, neston, netin, neting, Nsing, Nsinga. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "NESTING" (pronounced ne"sting) |
| 5 | -e" s t i ng | arresting, attesting, besting, breasting, contesting, cresting, digesting, divesting, ingesting, investing, molesting, protesting, reinvesting, requesting, resting, retesting, suggesting, testing, vesting, wresting. |
| 4 | -s t i ng | accosting, adjusting, assisting, blacklisting, blasting, boasting, boosting, broadcasting, bursting, busting, casting, coasting, coexisting, composting, consisting, contrasting, costing, defrosting, delisting, disgusting, dusting, encrusting, enlisting, entrusting, everlasting, exhausting, existing, fasting, feasting, forecasting, frosting, gusting, harvesting, Hasting, hoisting, hosting, insisting, interesting, jousting, lambasting, lasting, listing, lusting, manifesting, ousting, pasting, persisting, posting, preexisting, readjusting, recasting, resisting, roasting, rusting, tasting, thrusting, toasting, trusting, twisting, typecasting, uninteresting, wasting. |
| 3 | -t i ng | annotating, anticipating, appointing, appreciating, appropriating, approximating, arbitrating, abrogating, abutting, accelerating, accenting, accentuating, accepting, accommodating, abating, abbreviating, abdicating, abducting, abetting, aborting, accounting, accrediting, accumulating, acquitting, acting, activating, adapting, addicting, adjudicating, administrating, admitting, adopting, advocating, affecting, affiliating, afflicting, aggravating, agitating, airlifting, alerting, alienating, alleviating, allocating, allotting, alternating, amounting, articulating, assassinating, assaulting, asserting, assimilating, associating, attempting, attracting, attributing, auditing, augmenting, authenticating, automating, averting, awaiting, babysitting, backbiting, baiting, balloting, bankrupting, batting, beating, befitting, begetting, belting, benefiting, benefitting, berating, besetting, betting, biting, bitting, blanketing, bloating, bloodletting, blunting, boating, bolting, booting, boycotting, budgeting, bullfighting, bunting, butting, calculating, captivating, carpeting, carting, castigating, castrating, catapulting, cavorting, celebrating, cementing, chanting, charting, chatting, cheating, chlorinating, circulating, circumventing, citing, clotting, coagulating, coating, cohabiting, collaborating, collecting, combating, combatting, comforting, commemorating, commenting, committing, communicating, commuting, compensating, competing, complementing, completing, complicating, complimenting, computing, concentrating, concocting, conducting, confiscating, conflicting, confronting, congratulating, connecting, consenting, consolidating, consorting, constituting, constricting, constructing, consulting, consummating, contacting, contaminating, contemplating, contracting, contradicting, contributing, converting, convicting, cooperating, coordinating, copycatting, correcting, correlating, corroborating, corrupting, counteracting, Counterfeiting, counting, courting, crafting, crating, creating, crediting, culminating, cultivating, cutting, darting, dating, daunting, debating, debilitating, decaffeinating, decanting, decelerating, decimating, decorating, dedicating, deducting, defaulting, defeating, defecting, deflating, deflecting, degenerating, delegating, deleting, deliberating, delighting, delineating, demonstrating, denigrating, denting, departing, depicting, depleting, deporting, depositing, deprecating, depreciating, deregulating, deserting, designating, destructing, detecting, deteriorating, detonating, detracting, devastating, devoting, dictating, dieting, differentiating, diluting, directing, disappointing, disconcerting, disconnecting, discounting, discrediting, discriminating, disintegrating, disorienting, dispiriting, disputing, disquieting, disrespecting, disrupting, dissecting, disseminating, dissenting, dissipating, distorting, distracting, distributing, districting, diverting, documenting, domesticating, dominating, donating, doting, dotting, doubting, drafting, drifting, duplicating, eating, editing, educating, effecting, elaborating, elating, electing, electroplating, elevating, eliciting, eliminating, emanating, emigrating, emitting, emulating, enacting, encapsulating, enchanting, enunciating, equating, equivocating, eradicating, erecting, erupting, escalating, escorting, estimating, evacuating, evaluating, evaporating, evicting, exacerbating, exacting, exaggerating, exalting, exasperating, excavating, excepting, exciting, excoriating, excruciating, executing, exempting, exerting, exhibiting, exhilarating, exhorting, exiting, exonerating, expecting, expediting, experimenting, exploiting, exporting, extenuating, exterminating, extorting, extracting, extraditing, extrapolating, fabricating, facilitating, fainting, fascinating, faulting, fermenting, ferreting, Fetting, fidgeting, fighting, fingerprinting, firefighting, fitting, flaunting, fleeting, flirting, flitting, floating, flouting, fluctuating, fomenting, footing, footnoting, forfeiting, forgetting, formulating, fragmenting, fretting, fronting, fruiting, frustrating, generating, getting, gifting, glinting, gloating, graduating, grafting, granting, grating, gravitating, greeting, gritting, grouting, grunting, gunfighting, gutting, gyrating, hallucinating, halting, handwriting, hating, haunting, heating, hesitating, highlighting, hinting, hitting, homeporting, humiliating, hunting, hurting, hydrogenating, igniting, illuminating, illustrating, imitating, impacting, imparting, impersonating, implanting, implementing, implicating, importing, imprinting, inaugurating, incapacitating, incarcerating, incinerating, inciting, incorporating, incriminating, incubating, indicating, indicting, infatuating, infecting, infighting, infiltrating, inflating, inflicting, infuriating, ingratiating, inhabiting, inheriting, inhibiting, initiating, injecting, innovating, inserting, insinuating, inspecting, instigating, instituting, instructing, insulating, insulting, integrating, interacting, intercepting, interdicting, interpreting, interrogating, interrupting, intersecting, intimidating, intoxicating, inundating, invalidating, inventing, investigating, invigorating, inviting, irritating, isolating, jetting, jolting, jutting, kiting, knitting, lactating, lamenting, laminating, legislating, letting, levitating, liberating, lifting, lighting, limiting, liquidating, litigating, locating, looting, lubricating, malting, mandating, manipulating, marketing, marting, masturbating, mating, matting, mediating, meditating, meeting, melting, migrating, minting, misappropriating, misinterpreting, misrepresenting, misstating, mistreating, mitigating, moderating, molting, moonlighting, motivating, mounting, mutating, mutilating, muting, nauseating, navigating, necessitating, negating, neglecting, negotiating, netting, nitrating, nominating, nonbiting, nonoperating, nonsporting, nonvoting, noting, Nutting, objecting, obliterating, obstructing, obviating, officiating, offsetting, omitting, operating, opting, orbiting, orchestrating, originating, oscillating, Outfitting, outing, outwitting, overeating, overestimating, overheating, overreacting, overshooting, overstating, painting, panting, parachuting, parenting, participating, parting, patenting, patting, penetrating, percolating, perfecting, permeating, permitting, perpetrating, perpetuating, persecuting, perverting, petting, picketing, piloting, pinpointing, pirating, pitting, placating, planting, plating, plotting, plummeting, pocketing, pointing, polluting, pontificating, populating, porting, pouting, precipitating, predicting, predominating, preempting, presenting, preventing, printing, procrastinating, profiting, prognosticating, prohibiting, projecting, proliferating, promoting, prompting, promulgating, propagating, prosecuting, prospecting, protecting, pulsating, purporting, putting, quieting, quilting, quitting, quoting, radiating, rafting, ranting, ratcheting, rating, reacting, reactivating, reallocating, reasserting, rebutting, recalculating, recanting, reciprocating, reciting, recollecting, reconnecting, reconstituting, reconstructing, recounting, recreating, recruiting, recuperating, redacting, redecorating, redirecting, redistributing, redistricting, reelecting, reevaluating, refitting, reflecting, refuting, regenerating, regretting, regulating, rehabilitating, reigniting, reincorporating, reinstating, reinstituting, reinterpreting, reinventing, reinvigorating, reiterating, rejecting, rejuvenating, relating, relegating, relenting, relocating, remarketing, renegotiating, renovating, renting, repainting, repatriating, repeating, replanting, replicating, reporting, representing, reprinting, repudiating, rerouting, resenting, resonating, resorting, respecting, restarting, restating, restricting, resubmitting, resulting, resurrecting, resuscitating, retaliating, retracting, retreating, retrofitting, reuniting, reverberating, reverting, revisiting, revolting, rewriting, rioting, riveting, rocketing, rooting, rotating, rotting, salivating, salting, saluting, saturating, scapegoating, scouting, sculpting, seating, sedating, segregating, selecting, separating, setting, shafting, sheeting, shifting, shooting, shoplifting, shorting, shouting, shunting, shutting, sifting, sighting, simulating, siting, sitting, skating, skirting, skyrocketing, skywriting, slanting, slighting, slitting, slotting, smarting, smelting, snorting, soliciting, somersaulting, songwriting, sorting, speculating, spitting, splitting, sporting, spotlighting, spotting, spouting, sprinting, sprouting, spurting, squatting, squinting, squirting, stagnating, starting, stating, stimulating, stipulating, strutting, subcontracting, subjecting, submitting, subordinating, substituting, subtracting, subverting, suffocating, superconducting, supplanting, supplementing, supporting, surmounting, suspecting, sweating, Sweeting, syndicating, tabulating, tainting, targeting, taunting, telecommuting, telemarketing, tempting, tenting, terminating, thermosetting, thwarting, ticketing, tilting, titillating, tolerating, tormenting, toting, touting, translating, transmitting, transplanting, transporting, treating, trotting, trumpeting, typesetting, Typewriting, undercutting, underestimating, underreporting, understating, underwriting, undulating, unexciting, uninviting, uniting, unrelenting, unremitting, unseating, unstinting, unsuspecting, unwitting, updating, uplifting, uprooting, upsetting, urinating, vacating, vacillating, validating, vaulting, ventilating, venting, vetting, vibrating, violating, visiting, vomiting, voting, wafting, waiting, wanting, weighting, weightlifting, wetting, whiting, wildcatting, wilting, witting, writing, yachting. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: tensing. | |
| Words within the letters "e-g-i-n-n-s-t" | |
-1 letter: ensign, ingest, sennit, signet, tennis, tinges. | |
-2 letters: gents, inset, neist, nines, nites, segni, sengi, senti, singe, stein, sting, tines, tinge, tings. | |
-3 letters: egis, engs, gens, gent, gest, gets, gien, gies, gins, gist, gits, inns, nest, nets, nine, nite, nits, sent, sign, sine, sing, site, snit, tegs, tens, ties, tine, ting, tins. | |
-4 letters: eng, ens. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-g-i-n-n-s-t" | |
+1 letter: antigens, gentians, ginniest, nestling, nettings, scenting, sennight. | |
+2 letters: absenting, agentings, antigenes, assenting, centrings, destining, encysting, enlisting, enthusing, fastening, gannister, gantlines, hastening, ignescent, indigents, infesting, ingesting, ingestion, inserting, insetting, insurgent, investing, listening, naethings, negations, nestlings, nitrogens, renesting, resenting, sennights, sensating, signeting, singleton, sintering, sklenting, softening, sonneting, stringent, thingness, tinseling, unseating, unsetting. | |
+3 letters: alignments, amnestying, argentines, assignment, astringent, chastening, clingstone, congesting, congestion, consenting, constringe, contesting, cunningest, descanting, designment, destaining, dissenting, distending, eglantines, encrusting, enlightens, enswathing, entrusting, entwisting, estranging, eternising, fastenings, festooning, galantines, gannisters, glistening, grindstone, ingestions, inspecting, insurgents, integrands, isoantigen, knowingest, lentigines, manganites, meningitis, mistending, moistening, monetising, nauseating, negotiants, ontogenies, parentings, presenting, resinating, resonating, sauntering, sectioning, segmenting, sentencing, shortening, signalment, singletons, smartening, sonnetting, steepening, stenciling, stiffening, stinginess, stoutening, stringency, stringendo, subtending, sweetening, tangencies, tangerines, tensioning, tetanising, tinselling, transgenic, unsettling, unsteeling, unstepping, whitenings, witnessing. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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