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See also:Nest,NEST,nést,andn'est

English

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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FromMiddle Englishnest,nist,nyst, fromOld Englishnest, fromProto-West Germanic*nest, fromProto-Germanic*nestą, fromProto-Indo-European*nisdós(“nest”), literally "where [the bird] sits down", a compound of*ni(“down”) (whence alsoEnglishnether) + the zero-grade of the root*sed-(“to sit”) (whence alsoEnglishsit).

A Taveta Golden-weaver's elaboratenest
Groundnest of Sprague's Pipit

Noun

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nest (pluralnests)

  1. Astructure built by abird as a place toincubateeggs andrearyoung.
  2. Aplace used by amonotreme,fish,amphibian orinsect, fordepositing eggs andhatching young.
  3. Asnug,comfortable, orcosyresidence or job situation.
  4. Aretreat, or place ofhabitualresort.
  5. Ahideout for bad people to frequent orhaunt; aden.
    anest of thieves
    That nightclub is anest 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.]”, inA General History of the Pyrates, […], 2nd edition, London: Printed for, and sold by T. Warner, […],→OCLC,page119:
      Capt.Kirby and I concluding it might be of great Service to theEaſt-India Company to deſtroy such aNeſt of Rogues, were ready to ſail for that Purpoſe[…]
    • 1895,Frances Power Cobbe, chapter 10, inLife of Frances Power Cobbe‎[1], volume 1, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, page254:
      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 anest of wickedness as they had explored.
  6. Ahome that a child or young adult shares with aparent orguardian.
    I am aspiring to leave thenest.
  7. (card games) A fixednumber of cards in somebidding gamesawarded 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 thenest.
  8. (military) Afortifiedposition for a weapon.
  9. (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, page49:
      Subroutine 4 cannot jump out of the subroutinenest 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", inLanguages and Compilers for Parallel Computing (workshop proceedings), Springer (1994),→ISBN,page 178:
      Our analysis to this point has assumed that in a loopnest, we are only parallelizing a single loop.
  10. Acircularbed ofpasta,rice, etc. to be topped or filled with other foods.
  11. (geology) An aggregated mass of any ore or mineral, in an isolated state, within a rock.
  12. A collection of boxes, cases, or the like, of graduated size, each put within the one next larger.
  13. A compact group of pulleys, gears, springs, etc., working together or collectively.
  14. (vulgar, slang, now US) Thepubic hair near avulva or a vulva itself.
    Synonyms:beav,beaver
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Terms derived fromnest (noun)
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Translations
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bird-built structure
place for depositing eggs
snug residence
retreat
hideout
parental home
card games: fixed amount of cards in bidding games
military: fortified position for a weapon
computing: structure consisting of nested structures
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Etymology 2

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FromMiddle Englishnesten,nisten, fromOld Englishnistan,nistian, fromProto-West Germanic*nistijan(“to nest, build a nest”). Cognate withSaterland Frisiannäästje(“to nest”),Dutchnesten(“to nest”),German Low Germannüsten(“to nest”),Germannisten(“to nest”).

Verb

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Anolive-backed sunbird (Cinnyris jugularis) nesting in Singapore

nest (third-person singular simple presentnests,present participlenesting,simple past and past participlenested)

  1. (intransitive, of animals) Tobuild orsettle into a nest.
  2. (intransitive) Tosettle into a home.
    We loved the new house and werenesting there in two days!
  3. (intransitive) Tosuccessivelyneatlyfitinside another.
    I bought a set ofnesting mixing bowls for my mother.
  4. (transitive) Toplace in, or as if in, a nest.
  5. (transitive) To place one thingneatly inside another, and both inside yet another (and so on).
    There would be much more room in the attic if you hadnested all the empty boxes.
  6. (intransitive) Tohunt for birds' nests or their contents (usually "go nesting").
    • 1895, Alfred Emanuel Smith, Francis Walton,(Please provide the book title or journal name):
      After the first heavy frost, when acorns were falling, I took a friend into partnership and wentnesting.
Translations
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to build or settle into a nest
to settle into a home
to successively neatly fit
to place in a nest
to successively place inside another
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See also

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Anagrams

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Dutch

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Etymology

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FromMiddle Dutchnest, fromOld Dutchnest, fromProto-West Germanic*nest, fromProto-Germanic*nestą. Cognate with English, GermanNest etc.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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nest n (pluralnesten,diminutivenestje n)

  1. anest(place to hatch young, especially bird structure)
    Het vogeltje bouwt zijnnest in het riet. ―The little bird builds itsnest among the reeds.
  2. (colloquial) anest(residence; retreat; hideout; home)
    Hij groeide op in een roodnest. ―He grew up in a left-winghousehold.
  3. (colloquial) one'sbed
    Kom uit jenest, ’t is hoogste tijd! ―Get out ofbed, it’s high time!
  4. (derogatory) anasty, ill-behaving orpretentious child; abrat
    Wat een verwendnest! ―What a spoiled,pretentious brat!

Derived terms

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Descendants

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Elfdalian

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Etymology

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FromOld Norsenæstr, cognate withSwedishnäst,Englishnext.

Preposition

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nest

  1. by,near

Latgalian

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Etymology

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FromProto-Balto-Slavic*neśtei. Cognates includeLatviannest andLithuaniannešti.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈnʲæsʲtʲ]
  • Hyphenation:nest

Verb

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nest (reflexivenestīs)

  1. (transitive) tocarry

Conjugation

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Positive conjugation ofnest (type I verb)
infinitivenest
supinenastu
verbal nounnesšona
indicative
pastpresentfuture
1st singularnešunasunesšu
2nd singularnesinesnessi
3rd singularnesenasness
1st pluralnesemnasamnessim
2nd pluralnesetnasatnessit
3rd pluralnesenasness
subjunctiveimperative
1st singularnastumsingularnes
2nd singularnestim
nastumi		pluralnesit
3rd singularnastu
1st pluralnastumemdebitivejuonas
2nd pluralnastumetconverbnasdams
3rd pluralnastu
participles
pastpresentfuture
activeness
nesis		nasūšs
nass		—
passivenastsnasoms
nasom		—
obliqueness
nesis		nass
nasūt		nesškys
nesšūt
Negative conjugation ofnest (type I verb)
infinitivenanest
supinenanastu
verbal nounnanesšona
indicative
pastpresentfuture
1st singularnanešunanasunanesšu
2nd singularnanesinanesnanessi
3rd singularnanesenanasnaness
1st pluralnanesemnanasamnanessim
2nd pluralnanesetnanasatnanessit
3rd pluralnanesenanasnaness
subjunctiveimperative
1st singularnanastumsingularnanes
2nd singularnanestim
nanastumi		pluralnanesit
3rd singularnanastu
1st pluralnanastumemdebitivenajuonas
2nd pluralnanastumetconverbnanasdams
3rd pluralnanastu
participles
pastpresentfuture
activenaness
nanesis		nanasūšs
nanass		—
passivenanastsnanasoms
nanasom		—
obliquenaness
nanesis		nanass
nanasūt		nanesškys
nanesšūt

References

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  • M. Bukšs, J. Placinskis (1973)Latgaļu volūdas gramatika un pareizraksteibas vōrdneica, Latgaļu izdevnīceiba, page167
  • Nicole Nau (2011)A short grammar of Latgalian, München: LINCOM GmbH,→ISBN, page44

Latvian

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Etymology

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Cognate withLithuaniannèšti(“to carry, bring”), see there for more.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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nest (transitive,1stconjugation,presentnesu,nes,nes,pastnesu)

  1. (transitive) tocarry
  2. (transitive) tobring

Conjugation

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Conjugation ofnest
indicative(īstenībasizteiksme)imperative
(pavēlesizteiksme)
present
(tagadne)		past
(pagātne)		future
(nākotne)
1st personsgesnesunesunesīšu—
2nd personsgtunesnesinesīsines
3rd personsgviņš,viņanesnesanesīslaines
1st personplmēsnesamnesāmnesīsimnesīsim
2nd personpljūsnesatnesātnesīsiet,
nesīsit		nesiet
3rd personplviņi,viņasnesnesanesīslaines
renarrative(atstāstījumaizteiksme)participles(divdabji)
presentnesotpresent active 1(adj.)nesošs
pastesotnesispresent active 2(adv.)nesdams
futurenesīšotpresent active 3(adv.)nesot
imperativelainesotpresent active 4(obj.)nesam
conditional(vēlējumaizteiksme)past activenesis
presentnestupresent passivenesams
pastbūtunesispast passivenests
debitive(vajadzībasizteiksme)nominal forms
indicative(būt)jānesinfinitive(nenoteiksme)nest
conjunctive 1esotjānesnegative infinitivenenest
conjunctive 2jānesotverbal nounnešana

Derived terms

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  • aiznest(“to carry away”)
  • apnest(“to carry around (some obstacle that is on one's path)”)
  • atnest(“to bring (to carry to where the intended recipient is)”)
  • ienest(“to carry in”)
  • iznest(“to carry out”)
  • nasta(“burden”)
  • nēsāt(“to be continuously carrying around; to be wearing; to carry (a fetus)”)
  • nonest(“to carry down”)
  • panesams(“bearable, tolerable”)
  • panest(“to carry a little”)
  • pārnest(“to carry over (some obstacle that is on one's path)”)
  • pārnestanozīme(“figurative sense”, literally“transferred sense”)
  • pienest(“to carry up to someone”)
  • pienesums(“contribution”)
  • sanest(“to bring, hoard (some objects) together”)
  • sanesums(“snowdrift, accumulation of some material”)
  • uznest(“to carry up”)

Middle English

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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FromOld Englishnest, fromProto-West Germanic*nest, fromProto-Germanic*nestą.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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nest (pluralnestes)

  1. nest

Descendants

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Middle High German

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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FromOld High Germannest, fromProto-Germanic*nistą.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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nest n (genitive singularnestes,pluralnestornester)

  1. nest

Declension

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Declension ofnest (strong neuter with null plural)
singularplural
indef.def.noundef.noun
nominativeeindaȥnestdiunest,nester
genitiveeinesdësnestesdërneste,nester
dativeeimedëmnestedënnesten,nestern
accusativeeindaȥnestdiunest,nester

Norwegian Bokmål

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Etymology

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Adverbial form ofneste

Adverb

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nest

  1. next,second
    nest største - second largest

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Etymology

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Adverbial form ofneste

Adverb

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nest

  1. next,second
    nest eldst - second oldest

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Old English

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Etymology 1

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FromProto-West Germanic*nest, fromProto-Germanic*nestą. Cognate withOld Church Slavonicгнѣздо(gnězdo,“nest”),Old Irishnet(“nest”),Latinnīdus(“nest”),Sanskritनीड(nīḍa,“nest”),Albanianneth(“sprout, bud”),Old Armenianնիստ(nist,“sitting; seat; property”).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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nest n

  1. nest
    Ealle fuglas habbaþ heoranest ongunnen būtan þē and mē. Hwæs ābīdaþ wit?
    All the birds have started theirnests except for you and me. What are we waiting for?
Declension
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Stronga-stem:

singularplural
nominativenestnest
accusativenestnest
genitivenestesnesta
dativenestenestum
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Etymology 2

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Pronunciation

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Adjective

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nest(Anglian)

  1. Alternative form ofnīehst

Welsh

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Verb

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nest (not mutable)

  1. second-personsingularpreteritecolloquial ofgwneud
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