nest

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Pronunciation 1.3 Noun 1.3.1 Derived terms 1.3.2 Translations 1.4 Verb 1.4.1 Translations 2 Dutch 2.1 Etymology 2.2 Pronunciation 2.3 Noun 2.3.1 Derived terms 2.4 Verb 3 Old English 3.1 Pronunciation 3.2 Noun 3.2.1 Declension 3.2.2 Descendants

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From Old English nest, from Proto-Germanic *nistaz, from Proto-Indo-European *nisdós (“‘nest’”), a compound of *ni (“‘down’”) and the zero-grade of the root *sed- (“‘to sit’”) (whence also English sit).

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• IPA: /nɛst/
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• Rhymes: -ɛst

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nest (plural nests)

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 cozy residence or job situation.
4. A retreat, or place of habitual resort.
5. A hideout for bad people to frequent or haunt.

   That nightclub is a nest of strange people!

6. A home that a child or young adult shares with a parent, guardian, or a person acting in the capacity of a parent or guardian. A parental home.

   I am aspiring to leave the nest.

7. (card games) A fixed amount 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. (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) (computing) A structure in a programming code, like blocks, functions, subroutines, etc.

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• feather one’s nest/feather one’s own nest
• nest egg

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to nest (third-person singular simple present nests, present participle nesting, simple past and past participle nested)

1. (intransitive, of animals) To build or settle into a nest.
2. (intransitive) To settle into a home.

   We loved the new house and were nesting there in 2 days!

3. (intransitive) To successively neatly fit inside another.

   I bought a set of nesting mixing bowls for mom.

4. (transitive) To place in, or as if in, a nest.
5. (transitive) 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.

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[edit] Dutch

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Germanic, cognate with English, German Nest etc.

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• IPA: /nɛst/
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nest (plural nesten, diminutive nestje, diminutive plural nestjes) n.

1. A nest (bird structure; place to hatch young; snug residence; retreat; hideout; home)
2. (colloquial) One's bed

   Kom uit je nest, ’t is hoogste tijd!

   Get out of bed, it’s late!

3. A nasty, ill-behaving or pretentious girl.

   Wat een verwend nest.

   What a spoiled, pretentious girl.

   De prinses was een verwend nest, tot Zijne Majesteit haar naar een buitenlandse kostschool stuurde waar elk vervelend nest van de stok krijgt

   The princess was a spoiled brat, till His Majesty sent her to a foreign boarding school where every bitching girl gets the cane

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nest

1. Imperative and singular present imperfect forms of nesten

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[edit] Old English

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /nest/

[edit] Noun

nest n.

1. A nest

[edit] Declension

	Singular	Plural
nominative	nest	nest
accusative	nest	nest
genitive	nestes	nesta
dative	neste	nestum

[edit] Descendants

• English: nest