Nest

Definition: Nest

Nest

Noun

1. A structure in which animals lay eggs or give birth to their young.

2. A kind of gun emplacement; "a machine-gun nest"; "a nest of snipers".

3. A cosy or secluded retreat.

4. A gang of criminals assembled in one place; "a nest of thieves".

5. Furniture pieces made to fit close together.

Verb

1. Inhabit a nest, as of birds and some insects.

2. Fit together or fit inside.

3. Gather nests.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "nest" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Dream Interpretation

Electrical Engineering

Geography

Literature

Mining

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NEST

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Multitude

Noun: mul numerous; Adjective: numerosity, numerality; multiplicity; profusion; (plenty); legion, host; great number, large number, round number, enormous number; a quantity, numbers, array, sight, army, sea, galaxy; scores, peck, bushel, shoal, swarm, draught, bevy, cloud, flock, herd, drove, flight, covey, hive, brood, litter, farrow, fry, nest; crowd; (assemblage); lots; all in the world and his wife.

Crosswords: Nest

Dutch (den, nest), German (bed, den, dump, form, hideout, hole, lair, little place, nest, one-horse town).

First I knocked them out of their nest with a rock, then I saved them (While You Were Sleeping; writing credit: Daniel G. Sullivan; Fredric LeBow)

Each to his own nest. I'll peddle home in a jiffy, it's only seven miles (Blithe Spirit; writing credit: Noel Coward, Anthony Havelock-Allan, David Lean and Ronald Neame. Based on the play by Noel Coward.)

Think of my office as a nest in a tree of trust and understanding (Old School; writing credit: Court Crandall; Todd Phillips)

We have to find the nest, and fast, before Sunnydale turns into the Troublemeat Palace (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)

They don't eat people's gardens, don't nest in the corncrib, they don't do one thing but just sing their hearts out for us. (To Kill a Mockingbird; writing credit: Harper Lee; Horton Foote)

Sitting in a nest of bad men (Long Cool Woman (In a Black Dress); performing artist: Hollies)

Find a nest in the hills chill like Flynt (Cowboy; performing artist: KID ROCK)

And I'll buy for you a tree, my love, where a robin's nest may grow (Buy For Me the Rain; performing artist: Nitty Gritty Dirt Band)

Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest. (references; author: Malabar Proverb)

Liter: A nest of young puppies. (references; author: unknown)

Those who admire the freedom of birds have never built a nest. (references; author: unknown)

God creates a worm for every bird, but He does not throw it in the nest. (references; author: unknown)

You can't prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building their nest on it. (references; author: unknown)

Hornet's Nest (1970)

The Nest of the Cuckoo Birds (1965)

Building a Nest (1962)

The Hornet's Nest (1955)

Feather Your Nest (1954)

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Books

• Eagle's Nest (reference)

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Periodicals

• Nest (reference)

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Theater & Movies

• Love Nest (reference)

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Music

• Three Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest (reference)

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High Tech

• WASP BARCODE NEST SUITE (reference)

• WASP NEST QUICKSTORE W CCD LR (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

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Spotted gull nest in the grass and foliage. Credit: NOAA's Ark (Animals).

An osprey guarding its nest on a Coast Guard navigation aid. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Osprey landing on nest on Coast Guard daymark. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

View of the Crow's Nest and Storm King from West Point. On the Hudson River. In : Atlantic Local Coast Pilot Sub-Division 13 South Coast of Long Island New York Bay and Hudson River 1880. P. 604. Library Call Number VK981.A3 1879 Sub-13 2nd ed. 1880. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Sea gulls on a deserted osprey nest. Credit: America's Coastlines.

A menhaden fishing vessel with a lookout in the crow's nest looking for indications of schools of menhaden. Credit: Fisheries.

Rookery Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. Key Island, a barrier island, was infested with Australian pine trees, an invasive non-native plant that resul ted in significant loss of biodiversity of native plant communities. Salt-toler ant, they have shallow root systems that cause them to topple easily in high win ds, creating obstacles for Atlantic loggerhead turtles trying to nest on beach. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR).

ACE Basin National Estuarine Research Reserve. An American Alligator patrolling its nest area. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR).

Masked booby - Sula dactylatra - tending nest. Credit: Small World.

A wasps' nest on a tree at Isla Gorgona. Credit: Small World.

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The same is to be observed in all birds, (except some domestic ones, where plenty of food excuses the cock from feeding, and taking care of the young brood) whose young needing food in the nest, the cock and hen continue mates, till the young are able to use their wing, and provide for themselves. (Second Treatise of Government)

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As birds make a nest of anything, children make a doll of no matter what

Connie and Rose of Sharon made a nest against the cab.

As the sparrow had its trill, sitting on the hickory before my door, so had I my chuckle or suppressed warble which he might hear out of my nest.

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Health

If you have a family, there are probably changes at home—the “empty nest,” children leaving home for college, work, or marriage. (references)

The tumors of the central nervous system (CNS) are benign and are comprised of a nest of blood vessels and are called hemangioblastomas (or angiomas in the eye). Hemangioblastomas may develop in the brain, the retina of the eyes, and other areas of the nervous system. (references)

They found their way into the room through a crack—deer mice can squeeze through holes as small as a shirt button! Some mice chew through the fabric of an old armchair and build a nest inside it. Other mice shred bits of magazines and build nests under the shredded pieces. (references)

Women

Portugal

The Nest, an NGO, operates economic and social recovery programs for prostitutes. (references)

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Expressions using "nest": bird nest ♦ bird's nest ♦ bird's nest fern ♦ bird's nest soup ♦ bring a hornet's nest about one's ears ♦ bring a hornets' nest about one's ears ♦ bring a wasp's nest about one's ears ♦ build a nest ♦ climbing bird's nest fern ♦ crown' nest ♦ crows Nest ♦ crow's nest ♦ cuckoo in the nest ♦ cuckoo's nest ♦ Eagle Nest ♦ eagles nest ♦ Edible bird's nest ♦ feather one's nest ♦ feather one's own nest ♦ find a mare's nest ♦ hornet's nest ♦ Hurrah's nest ♦ leave the nest ♦ love nest ♦ mares nest ♦ mare's nest ♦ mouse nest ♦ mouse's nest ♦ nest egg ♦ nest of boxes ♦ nest of drawers ♦ nest of eggs ♦ nest of mice ♦ nest of resistance ♦ nest of robbers ♦ nest of tables ♦ nest sugar ♦ North Crows Nest ♦ salanganes' nest ♦ snake's nest ♦ stir up a hornet's nest ♦ stork's nest ♦ the bird wings to its nest ♦ To feather one's nest ♦ To stir up a hornet's nest ♦ tube nest ♦ wasps nest ♦ wasp's nest ♦ wasps' nest ♦ wrats nest ♦ yellow bird's nest. Additional references.

Beginning with "nest": nest-bound, nest-box, nest-boxes, nest-building, nest-cup, nest-doll, nest-egg, nest-eggs, nest-feathering, nest-hole, nest-holes, nest-keeping, nest-like, nest-making, nest-owner, nest-owners, nest-site, Nest-to-be.

Ending with "nest": love-nest.

Containing "nest": bird's-nest fungus, Bird's-nest pudding, birds'-nest-soup.

Albanian

ngre fole (nestle, nidificate, nidify), strofull (burrow, den, foxhole, hideout, hole, lair, mew, tunnel, Warren), fole (aerie, aery, chase, mortise, nidus, pad, socket), bëj çerdhe, çerdhe (columbarium, den, hideout). (various references)

Arabic 

‏معحضن, ‏نزل (bring down, camp, cantonal, climb down, come down, decline, depress, descend, drop, get down, get off, glide, go down, hostel, inn, lodge, lodging house, low, lower, miscreant, move, pull down, put down, rascal, reach down, road house, scab, scroll, send, shade, sink, slip down, step down, take down, tavern), ‏قطن (belong, cotton, dwell, dwelling, inhabit, lodge, settle in), ‏وكر (den), ‏حضنة (clasp), ‏عشش, ‏عش الزوجية, ‏عش (mite), ‏بنى عشا. (various references)

Basque

habia. (various references)

Blackfoot

oyííyis. (various references)

Bulgarian 

свърталище (hang out, hangout, haunt, retreat), свивам гнездо, снасям яйца в гнездо, кътче (nook, recess), котило (litter), гнездя (nidificate, nidify), гнездо (collet, cradle, housing, mortise, mounting, rabbet, receptacle, socket), вия гнездо (nidificate), люпило (brood, clutch, hatch, sitting), полог (nest egg), подслон (harborage, harbour, harbourage, housing, inn, protection, refuge, rest, roof, sconce, shelter). (various references)

Chinese 

巢 . (various references)

Czech

vybírat hnízda, souprava (coordinates, ensemble, lot, set, suite), sada (set), hnízdo (hole, nide), hnízdit, doupì (burrow, den, earth, hole, lair, Lodge). (various references)

Danish

rede (arrange, den, put in order, tidy). (various references)

Dutch

nestelen (nesting, to nest), nest (den), een nest maken. (various references)

Esperanto

nesto (den), nesti. (various references)

Faeroese

reiður (den). (various references)

Farsi 

پیچیدن (Complicate, Envelop, Enwrap, Fake, Impact, Lap, Reverberate, Roll, Screw, Swab, Swath, Swathe, Tweak, Twinge, Twist, Wattle, Wind, Wrap), پاتوق (Haunt, Recourse, Rendezvous, Resort, Station), لانه ساختن , لانه (Den, Lair), اسایشگاه (Sanatorium), اشیانه , اشیان کردن , اشیان گرفتن (Nestle), درمحل محفوظی جای گرفتن . (various references)

Finnish

pesä (den, estate, grate, hole, hotbed, lair). (various references)

French

nid, nicher (to nest). (various references)

Frisian

nestelje. (various references)

German

Nest (bed, den, dump, form, hideout, hole, lair, little place, one-horse town), verschachteln (encapsulate, interlace, interleave, to interlace, to interleave), nisten (nesting, nestle). (various references)

Greek 

φωλιά (den, lair, nidus), φωλιάζω (embosom, harbour, nestle, nestle down, nuzzle, snuggle). (various references)

Hebrew 

לקנן (build a nest), קן (cell, chamber, habitation, Jack, shelter, socket). (various references)

Hungarian

fészek (corner, nidus, pillbox), búvóhely (corner, covert, cubbyhole, cubby-hole, grot, hangout, hide out, hideaway, hide-out, hiding place, lair, mountain fastness). (various references)

Icelandic

hreiður (den). (various references)

Indonesian

sarang (lair). (various references)

Irish

nead (bed, den). (various references)

Italian

nido (creche, home, honeycomb). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

巣 (beehive, breeding place, cobweb, den, haunt, rookery). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

す (beehive, breeding place, cobweb, den, haunt, rookery, sandbank, vinegar), ネスト , いれこ. (various references)

Korean 

둥지 (Aerie, Aery, Eyrie, Eyries). (various references)

Manx

troggal edd (nesting), straih (break, flight of hurdles, orchestral suite, range, row, run, screed, sequence, series, strata, stratum, strip, tier), jannoo edd (nesting), edd (eyrie, hat), aal (litter, sitting of eggs, young of animals; fork of table, young; fork). (various references)

Occitan

nis. (various references)

Papago

kosh. (various references)

Papiamen

neishi (den). (various references)

Pig Latin

estnay.(various references)

Portuguese

ninho (bed, den, nidus). (various references)

Romanian

viespar, ungher (angle, corner, niche, nook, spot), trãi într-un cuib, speluncã (shady public house), face un cuib pentru, cuibãri (nestle), cuib (aerie, center, centre, den, home, hotbed), colţ (aiguille, angle, cliff, corner, Fang, nook, quoin, spot, stump, tooth, tusk), adãpost (bunker, burrow, cot, cover, covert, coverture, flight, Harbor, harbour, haven, home, house, housing, kennel, lair, lodgment, niche, penthouse, port, recourse, refuge, retreat, roofing, safeguard, sanctuary, sconce, screen, shadow, shelter, shield, shroud, stall, support), a-şi face un cuib. (various references)

Romansch

gnieu. (various references)

Russian 

гнездо (cradle, mortise, receptacle, socket), гнездиться, выводок (aerie, aery, brood, clutch, hatch, litter), вкладывать гнездо, вить гнездо (nidificate, nidify), лабиринт (labyrinth, maze). (various references)

Scottish

nead (a nest, den). (various references)

Sepedi

sehlaga. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

ugodno prebivalište, sviti gnezdo, skrovište (concealment, harbor, harbour, hide out, hideout, hiding place, lurking place), grupisati reči po korenu, gnezdo (nidus). (various references)

Shona

dendere. (various references)

Spanish

nido (nidus). (various references)

Sranan

nesi (den). (various references)

Swazi

sî-fú. (various references)

Swedish

näste (den), bo (abide, den, dig, dwel, dwell, estate, furniture, house, indwell, inhabitant, lair, live, Lodge, nidus, reside, room, stay), ågelbo. (various references)

Thai

ที่อยู่, วางอย่างเป็นระเบียบ, รังนก. (various references)

Turkish

yuvaya yerleşmek, yuva yapmak (nidificate, nidify), yuva (burrow, creche, creep, day care center, fireside, fold, haunt, hearth, hearth and home, hearthstone, Holt, home, hotbed, mortice, mortise, nidus, nursery, race, recess, seat, seed plot, seedbed, set), tutam (a handful, cluster, cut, pinch, smack, soupcon, sprinkle, sprinkling, tuft, wisp), kuluçka, iç içe koymak, iç içe geçen şeyler. (various references)

Turkmen 

цяjьk, hцwьrtge. (various references)

Ukrainian

вставляти (fill in, interpose, parenthesize, throw in), блок зубчатих колес, база (base, substruction), банда (band, banditti, gang), аеродром (aerodrome, air field, airdrome), збіговисько (collection, coven, rat race), затишний куточок, зграя (brood, drove, flock, gaggle, pack), виводок (aerie, brood, litter), вити гніздо (nestle, nidificate), домівка (door, house), вмонтовувати, свій дім, гніздитися (nestle), гніздечко, гніздо (bezel, den), кубло (den, shebang, stash), тулитися (cabin, nestle), ховатися (abscond, burrow, hide, hide away, hide out, hide up, lurk, nestle, shelter oneself, shroud, skulk, take cover), розоряти гнізда, рідне гніздо, рій (bike, cluster), ватага (crew, horde, push). (various references)

Vietnamese 

tổ (grouping, groupment, team). (various references)

Welsh

nythu (nestle), nyth. (various references)

Yucatec

k'u' (den). (various references)

ablal, barag. (various references)

cubile, cubili, cubilia, cubilibus, cubilis, nido, nidos, nidum, nidus. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "nest": nestable, nested, nester, nesters, nesting, nestle, nestled, nestler, nestlers, nestles, nestlike, nestling, nestlings, nestor, nestors, nests. (additional references)

Words ending with "nest": barrenest, brownest, certainest, cleanest, commonest, dishonest, divinest, doggonest, dunnest, earnest, evenest, fainest, finest, forlornest, funest, funnest, goldenest, greenest, hangnest, honest, humanest, inanest, insanest, keenest, leanest, meanest, modernest, obscenest, oftenest, openest, overearnest, plainest, renest, rottenest, sanest, serenest, solemnest, soonest, sternest, stubbornest, sullenest, tannest, thinnest, trapnest, uncleanest, uncommonest, unevenest, urbanest, vainest, wannest, woodenest. (additional references)

Words containing "nest": acetylcholinesterase, acetylcholinesterases, amnestic, amnestied, amnesties, amnesty, amnestying, anamnestic, anesthesia, anesthesias, anesthesiologies, anesthesiologist, anesthesiologists, anesthesiology, anesthetic, anesthetically, anesthetics, anesthetist, anesthetists, anesthetize, anesthetized, anesthetizes, anesthetizing, anestri, anestrous, anestrus, anestruses, anticholinesterase, anticholinesterases, cholinesterase, cholinesterases, defenestrate, defenestrated, defenestrates, defenestrating, defenestration, defenestrations, dishonesties, dishonestly, dishonesty, earnestly, earnestness, earnestnesses, earnests, fenestra, fenestrae, fenestral, fenestrate, fenestrated, fenestration, fenestrations. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Nest" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: anast, enset, enst, nact, nasc, naso, Nassb, nast, Nasta, nasto, Nasuta, nats, nazt, Ncsi, neast, nect, Neecct, nees, neet, neez, nefs, neist, nelt, Nent, nert, nes, Nesb, nese, nesi, nesm, nesp, nesta, Nestl, nesto, nesty, ne-sw, netu, Neuste, neut, nez, Nezu, Nfsu, nhsta, nict, niets, nist, Nista, noct, nosf, nosq, nsl, nsr, Nsta, nsx, Nuesch, nust, Nwest, Nyeht. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: nets, sent, tens.

-1 letter: ens, net, sen, set, ten.

-2 letters: en, es, et, ne.

+1 letter: antes, bents, cents, dents, etnas, gents, hents, inset, nates, neats, neist, nerts, nests, netts, newts, nites, notes, onset, rents, scent, sente, senti, seton, shent, spent, stane, stein, steno, stern, stone, teens, tends, tense, tents, terns, thens, tines, tones, tunes, tynes, unset, vents.

+2 letters: absent, agents, aments, anenst, ansate, antres, ascent, assent, astern, atones, betons, brents, centas, centos, contes, elints, enacts, enates, encyst, enlist, enters, estrin, ethnos, events, fasten, feints, finest, funest, genets, gentes, hasten, honest, incest, inerts, infest, ingest, inlets, insect, insert, insets, instep, inters, invest, jetons, latens, lentos, listen, lunets, mantes, montes, nested, nester, nestle, nestor, netops, newest, nicest, niters, nitres, nonets, noters, nudest, onsets, patens, pontes, renest, rentes, resent, sanest, sateen, scents, secant, sejant, senate, seniti, sennet, sennit, sentry, setons, sextan, sexton, signet, silent, sinter, sitten, sklent, snathe, soften, sonnet, spinet, splent, sprent, stamen, stance, staned, stanes, steins, stench, stenos, sterna, sterns, stolen, stoned, stoner, stones, stoney, strewn, subnet, sunket, sunset, syndet, teensy, teinds, telson, tenets, tenias, tennis, tenons, tenors, tensed, tenser, tenses, tensor, tenths, tenues, tenuis, ternes, teston, thanes, thegns, theins, tineas, tinges, tinsel, tisane, tokens, toners, tonnes, treens, trends, triens, trines, trones, tuners, twines, unites, unrest, unseat, unsent, unsets, unstep, unties, upsent, wisent, yentas, yentes.