Nest vs Pack - 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 bundle made up and prepared to be carried; especially, a bundle to be carried on the back; a load for an animal; a bale, as of goods.
A number or quantity equal to the contents of a pack; hence, a multitude; a burden.
A number or quantity of connected or similar things; a collective.
A full set of playing cards; also, the assortment used in a particular game; as, a euchre pack.
A number of hounds or dogs, hunting or kept together.
* 2005 , John D. Skinner and Christian T. Chimimba, The Mammals of the Southern African Subregion?
A number of persons associated or leagued in a bad design or practice; a gang;
A group of Cub Scouts.
A shook of cask staves.
A bundle of sheet-iron plates for rolling simultaneously.
A large area of floating pieces of ice driven together more or less closely.
An envelope, or wrapping, of sheets used in hydropathic practice, called dry pack, wet pack, cold pack, etc., according to the method of treatment.
(slang): A loose, lewd, or worthless person.
(snooker, pool) A tight group of object balls in cue sports. Usually the reds in snooker.
(rugby) The team on the field.
(label) To put or bring things together in a limited or confined space, especially for storage or transport.
# (label) To make a pack of; to arrange closely and securely in a pack; hence, to place and arrange compactly as in a pack; to press into close order or narrow compass.
#* (Joseph Addison) (1672-1719)
#* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
# (label) To fill in the manner of a pack, that is, compactly and securely, as for transportation; hence, to fill closely or to repletion; to stow away within; to cause to be full; to crowd into.
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, title=Death on the Centre Court, chapter=5
, passage=By one o'clock the place was choc-a-bloc. […] The restaurant was packed , and the promenade between the two main courts and the subsidiary courts was thronged with healthy-looking youngish people, drawn to the Mecca of tennis from all parts of the country.}}
# (label) To envelop in a wet or dry sheet, within numerous coverings.
# (label) To render impervious, as by filling or surrounding with suitable material, or to fit or adjust so as to move without giving passage to air, water, or steam.
# (label) To make up packs, bales, or bundles; to stow articles securely for transportation.
# (label) To admit of stowage, or of making up for transportation or storage; to become compressed or to settle together, so as to form a compact mass.
# (label) To gather in flocks or schools.
(label) To cheat, to arrange matters unfairly.
# To sort and arrange (the cards) in a pack so as to secure the game unfairly.
#* (Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
# (label) To bring together or make up unfairly and fraudulently, in order to secure a certain result.
#* (Francis Atterbury) (1663-1732)
# (label) To contrive unfairly or fraudulently; to plot.
#* (Thomas Fuller) (1606-1661)
# (label) To unite in bad measures; to confederate for ill purposes; to join in collusion.
#* 1599 , (William Shakespeare), (Much Ado About Nothing) ,
(label) To load with a pack; hence, to load; to encumber.
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
To move, send or carry.
# (label) To cause to go; to send away with baggage or belongings; especially, to send away peremptorily or suddenly; – sometimes with off. See pack off.
#* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
# To transport in a pack, or in the manner of a pack (i. e., on the backs of men or animals).
# (label) To depart in haste; – generally with off'' or ''away .
#* (Jonathan Swift) (1667–1745)
#* (1809-1892)
# To carry weapons, especially firearms, on one's person.
To block a shot, especially in basketball.
To wear a simulated penis inside one’s trousers for better verisimilitude.
As nouns the difference between nest and pack
is that nest is native english-speaking teacher while pack is package, bundle, bunch, (unwieldy) bag or pack can be rabble, mob, vermin, rascals.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") * ----pack
English
Noun
(pack) (en noun)- The horses carried the packs across the plain.
- A pack of lies.
- We were going to play cards, but nobody brought a pack .
- African wild dogs hunt by sight, although stragglers use their noses to follow the pack .
- a pack of thieves or knaves.
- The ship had to sail round the pack of ice.
Synonyms
(full set of cards) deckDerived terms
* blister pack * bowl pack * daypack * Duluth pack * eight-pack * expansion pack * fanny pack * froth pack * ice pack * jet pack/jetpack/jet-pack * pack animal * pack ice * pack journalism * pack mentality * pack rat * RAM pack * rocket pack * service pack * six-packVerb
(en verb)- strange materials packed up with wonderful art
- Wherethe bones / Of all my buried ancestors are packed .
George Goodchild
- Mighty dukes pack cards for half a crown.
- The expected council was dwindling intoa packed assembly of Italian bishops.
- He lost lifeupon a nice point subtilely devised and packed by his enemies.
- This naughty man / Shall face to face be brought to Margaret, / Who, I believe, was pack'd in all this wrong, / Hired to it by your brother.
- our thighs packed with wax, our mouths with honey
- Till George be packed with post horse up to heaven.
- Poor Stella must pack off to town.
- You shall pack , / And never more darken my doors again.