nest
English
Etymology
From Middle English nest, nist, nyst, from Old English nest, from Proto-Germanic *nestą, from Proto-Indo-European *nisdós (“nest”), literally "where [the bird] sits down", a compound of *ni (“down”) (whence also English nether) + the zero-grade of the root *sed- (“to sit”) (whence also English sit).
Pronunciation
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Noun
nest (plural nests)
- A structure built by a bird as a place to incubate eggs and rear young.
- A place used by another mammal, fish, amphibian or insect, for depositing eggs and hatching young.
- A snug, comfortable, or cosy residence or job situation.
- A retreat, or place of habitual resort.
- A hideout for bad people to frequent or haunt; a den.
- a nest of thieves
- That nightclub is a nest of strange people!
- 1724, Charles Johnson [pseudonym], “Of Capt. Edward England, and His Crew. [A Letter from Captain Makra, dated at Bombay, Nov. 16, 1720.]”, in A General History of the Pyrates, […], 2nd edition, London: Printed for, and sold by T. Warner, […], →OCLC, page 119:
- Capt. Kirby and I concluding it might be of great Service to the Eaſt-India Company to deſtroy such a Neſt of Rogues, were ready to ſail for that Purpoſe […]
- 1895, Frances Power Cobbe, Life of Frances Power Cobbe, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, Volume 1, Chapter 10, p. 254,[1]
- Miss Carpenter told me that a short time previously some Bow Street constables had been sent down to this place to ferret out a crime which had been committed there, and that they reported there was not in all London such a nest of wickedness as they had explored.
- A home that a child or young adult shares with a parent or guardian.
- I am aspiring to leave the nest.
- (card games) 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.
- (military) A fortified position for a weapon.
- a machine gun nest
- (computing) A structure consisting of nested structures, such as nested loops or nested subroutine calls.
- 1981, Donnamaie E. White, Bit-Slice Design: Controllers and ALU's,[2] Garland STPM Press, →ISBN, page 49:
- Subroutine 4 cannot jump out of the subroutine nest in one step. Each return address must be popped from the stack in the order in which it was pushed onto the stack.
- 1993 August, Bwolen Yang et al., "Do&Merge: Integrating Parallel Loops and Reductions", in Languages and Compilers for Parallel Computing (workshop proceedings), Springer (1994), →ISBN, page 178:
- Our analysis to this point has assumed that in a loop nest, we are only parallelizing a single loop.
- 1981, Donnamaie E. White, Bit-Slice Design: Controllers and ALU's,[2] Garland STPM Press, →ISBN, page 49:
- A circular bed of pasta, rice, etc. to be topped or filled with other foods.
- (geology) An aggregated mass of any ore or mineral, in an isolated state, within a rock.
- A collection of boxes, cases, or the like, of graduated size, each put within the one next larger.
- A compact group of pulleys, gears, springs, etc., working together or collectively.
Quotations
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:nest.
Derived terms
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Verb
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nest (third-person singular simple present nests, present participle nesting, simple past and past participle nested)
- (intransitive, of animals) To build or settle into a nest.
- (intransitive) To settle into a home.
- We loved the new house and were nesting there in two days!
- (intransitive) To successively neatly fit inside another.
- I bought a set of nesting mixing bowls for my mother.
- (transitive) To place in, or as if in, a nest.
- (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.
- (intransitive) To hunt for birds' nests or their contents (usually "go nesting").
- 1895, Alfred Emanuel Smith, Francis Walton
- After the first heavy frost, when acorns were falling, I took a friend into partnership and went nesting.
- 1895, Alfred Emanuel Smith, Francis Walton
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See also
nest on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Template:Wikisource1911Enc Citation
Anagrams
Dutch
Etymology
From Middle Dutch nest, from Old Dutch nest, from Proto-Germanic *nestaz. Cognate with English, German Nest etc.
Pronunciation
Noun
nest n (plural nesten, diminutive nestje n)
- A nest (place to hatch young, especially bird structure; snug residence; retreat; hideout; home)
- (colloquial) One's bed
- Kom uit je nest, ’t is hoogste tijd!
- Get out of bed, it’s late!
- A nasty, ill-behaving or pretentious child; a brat.
- Wat een verwend nest!
- What a spoiled, pretentious brat!
Derived terms
Descendants
- Afrikaans: nes
Elfdalian
Etymology
From Old Norse næstr, cognate with Swedish näst, English next.
Preposition
nest
Latgalian
Pronunciation
Verb
nest
Latvian
Etymology
Cognate with Lithuanian nèšti (“to carry, bring”), see there for more.
Pronunciation
Verb
nest (transitive, 1st conjugation, present nesu, nes, nes, past nesu)
- (transitive) to carry
- (transitive) to bring
Conjugation
INDICATIVE (īstenības izteiksme) | IMPERATIVE (pavēles izteiksme) | ||||
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Present (tagadne) |
Past (pagātne) |
Future (nākotne) | |||
1st pers. sg. | es | nesu | nesu | nesīšu | — |
2nd pers. sg. | tu | nes | nesi | nesīsi | nes |
3rd pers. sg. | viņš, viņa | nes | nesa | nesīs | lai nes |
1st pers. pl. | mēs | nesam | nesām | nesīsim | nesīsim |
2nd pers. pl. | jūs | nesat | nesāt | nesīsiet, nesīsit |
nesiet |
3rd pers. pl. | viņi, viņas | nes | nesa | nesīs | lai nes |
RENARRATIVE (atstāstījuma izteiksme) | PARTICIPLES (divdabji) | ||||
Present | nesot | Present Active 1 (Adj.) | nesošs | ||
Past | esot nesis | Present Active 2 (Adv.) | nesdams | ||
Future | nesīšot | Present Active 3 (Adv.) | nesot | ||
Imperative | lai nesot | Present Active 4 (Obj.) | nesam | ||
CONDITIONAL (vēlējuma izteiksme) | Past Active | nesis | |||
Present | nestu | Present Passive | nesams | ||
Past | būtu nesis | Past Passive | nests | ||
DEBITIVE (vajadzības izteiksme) | NOMINAL FORMS | ||||
Indicative | (būt) jānes | Infinitive (nenoteiksme) | nest | ||
Conjunctive 1 | esot jānes | Negative Infinitive | nenest | ||
Conjunctive 2 | jānesot | Verbal noun | nešana |
Derived terms
- atnest (“to bring (to carry to where the intended recipient is)”)
- ienest (“to carry in”)
- pienest (“to carry up to someone”)
- pienesums (“contribution”)
- aiznest (“to carry away”)
- apnest (“to carry around (some obstacle that is on one's path)”)
- iznest (“to carry out”)
- panest (“to carry a little”)
- panesams (“bearable, tolerable”)
- nonest (“to carry down”)
- pārnest (“to carry over (some obstacle that is on one's path)”)
- pārnesta nozīme (“figurative sense”, literally “transferred sense”)
- uznest (“to carry up”)
- sanest (“to bring, hoard (some objects) together”)
- sanesums (“snowdrift, accumulation of some material”)
- nēsāt (“to be continuously carrying around; to be wearing; to carry (a fetus)”)
- nasta (“burden”)
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
Adverbial form of neste
Adverb
nest
Derived terms
References
- “nest” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
Adverbial form of neste
Adverb
nest
References
- “nest” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old English
Pronunciation
Noun
nest n
- nest
- Ealle fuglas habbaþ heora nest ongunnen būtan þū and iċ. Hwæs ābīde wit?
- All the birds have started their nests except for you and me. What are we waiting for?
Declension
Descendants
- English: nest
Welsh
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
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- Lua error in Module:parameters at line 290: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "cy-S" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /neːsd/, [neːst], /nɛsd/, [nɛst]
Verb
nest
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