Nest vs Kennel - What's the difference?
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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 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.
(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.
(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:
* 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,
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.
(of animals) To build or settle into a nest.
To settle into a home.
To successively neatly fit inside another.
To place in, or as if in, a nest.
To place one thing neatly inside another, and both inside yet another (and so on).
To hunt for birds' nests or their contents (usually "go nesting").
* 1895 , Alfred Emanuel Smith, Francis Walton
A house or shelter for a dog.
A facility at which dogs are reared or boarded.
(UK) The dogs kept at such a facility; a pack of hounds.
* 1843 , '', book 3, ch. IX, ''Working Aristocracy
The hole of a fox or other animal.
To house or board a dog (or less commonly another animal).
To lie or lodge; to dwell, as a dog or a fox.
* L'Estrange
(obsolete) A gutter at the edge of a street.
* 1899 , Guy Boothby, Pharos the Egyptian
(obsolete) A puddle.
As nouns the difference between nest and kennel
is that nest is native english-speaking teacher while kennel is a house or shelter for a dog or kennel can be (obsolete) a gutter at the edge of a street.As a verb kennel is
to house or board a dog (or less commonly another animal).nest
English
Noun
(en noun)- a nest of thieves
- ''That nightclub is a nest of strange people!
- ''I am aspiring to leave the nest .
- ''I was forced to change trumps when I found the ace, jack, and nine of diamonds in the nest .
- 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.
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- Our analysis to this point has assumed that in a loop nest , we are only parallelizing a single loop.
Quotations
* (English Citations of "nest")Derived terms
* don't shit in your own nest * feather one's nest / feather one's own nest * nest eggVerb
(en verb)- We loved the new house and were nesting there in two days!
- I bought a set of nesting mixing bowls for my mother.
- There would be much more room in the attic if you had nested all the empty boxes.
- 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)See also
* (wikipedia "nest") * ----kennel
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl), from a *canile , ultimately from (etyl) canisNoun
(en noun)- – We want to look at the dog kennels .
– That's the pet department, second floor.
- The town dog-catcher operates the kennel for strays.
- She raises registered Dalmatians at her kennel .
- (Shakespeare)
- A world of mere Patent-Digesters will soon have nothing to digest: such world ends, and by Law of Nature must end, in ‘over-population;’ in howling universal famine, ‘impossibility,’ and suicidal madness, as of endless dog-kennels run rabid.
Synonyms
* (shelter for a dog) doghouseVerb
- While we're away our friends will kennel our pet poodle.
- The dog kennelled in a hollow tree.
Etymology 2
See channel, canal.Noun
(en noun)- A biting wind whistled through the streets, the pavements were dotted with umbrella-laden figures, the kennels ran like mill-sluices, while the roads were only a succession of lamp-lit puddles through which the wheeled traffic splashed continuously.
- (Bishop Hall)