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Nesting vs Nestling - What's the difference?

nesting | nestling |

As verbs the difference between nesting and nestling

is that nesting is present participle of lang=en while nestling is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between nesting and nestling

is that nesting is the process by which a bird nests while nestling is a small bird that is still confined to the nest.

nesting

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The process by which a bird nests.
  • (computing) The enclosure of one loop, block, etc. of code inside another.

    • Anagrams

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    nestling

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) nestling, equivalent to .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A small bird that is still confined to the nest.
  • (obsolete) A nest; a receptacle.
    • (Francis Bacon)

    Etymology 2

    From .

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who nestles.
  • * 1871 , Kate Neely Hill Festetits, Actions speak louder than words
    • It was associated, to them, with vague sweet memories of loving nestlings in mother's arms, of soft warm coddlings before the fire, of slow rocking to and fro in the little, low, flag chair, and gradual droppings off to sleep