nest English
Noun
( en noun)
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 cozy 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!
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 .
(cards) 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, e.g. 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 , Garland STPM Press, ISBN 9780824071035, 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 978-3-540-57659-4, page 178 :
- Our analysis to this point has assumed that in a loop nest , we are only parallelizing a single loop.
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.
Derived terms
* don't shit in your own nest
* feather one's nest / feather one's own nest
* nest egg
Verb
( en verb)
(of animals) To build or settle into a nest.
To settle into a home.
- We loved the new house and were nesting there in two days!
To successively neatly fit inside another.
- I bought a set of nesting mixing bowls for my mother.
To place in, or as if in, a nest.
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.
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 .
Anagrams
* (l)
* (l)
* (l), (l)
* (l)
* (l), (l)
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bower English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) ).
Noun
( en noun)
A bedroom or private apartments, especially for a woman in a medieval castle.
* Gascoigne
- Give me my lute in bed now as I lie, / And lock the doors of mine unlucky bower .
(literary) A dwelling; a picturesque country cottage, especially one that is used as a retreat.
- (Shenstone)
A shady, leafy shelter or recess in a garden or woods.
* 1599 ,
- say that thou overheard'st us,
- And bid her steal into the pleached bower ,
- Where honey-suckles, ripen'd by the sun,
- Forbid the sun to enter;
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(ornithology) A large structure made of grass and bright objects, used by the bower bird during courtship displays.
Synonyms
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Verb
( en verb)
To embower; to enclose.
- (Shakespeare)
(obsolete) To lodge.
- (Spenser)
Etymology 2
From (etyl) boueer, from (etyl) .
Noun
( en noun)
A peasant; a farmer.
Etymology 3
From (etyl) Bauer.
Noun
( en noun)
Either of the two highest trumps in euchre.
Derived terms
* best bower
* left bower
* right bower
Etymology 4
From the bow of a ship
Noun
( en noun)
(nautical) A type of ship's anchor, carried at the bow.
One who bows or bends.
A muscle that bends a limb, especially the arm.
* Spenser
- His rawbone arms, whose mighty brawned bowers / Were wont to rive steel plates and helmets hew.
Etymology 5
From bough, compare brancher.
Noun
( en noun)
(obsolete, falconry) A young hawk, when it begins to leave the nest.
( Webster 1913)
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