Nests

Word NESTS
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Definitions and meanings of "Nests"

What do we mean by nests?

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 cosy 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 or guardian.

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.

A fortified position for a weapon.

A structure consisting of nested structures, such as nested loops or nested subroutine calls.

A circular bed of pasta, rice, etc. to be topped or filled with other foods.

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.

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The word "nests" in example sentences

Every proposal to avoid soiling our nests is going to be the end of the world, and they never learn, no matter how many times their pessimism is proven wrong. joe from Lowell Says: ❋ Unknown (2009)

Must be differentiated from Schools which may be independent and contain nests of reactionary hate mongering education not limited to Nazi Germnay ❋ Newmania (2008)

- Chickens prefer to lay eggs in nests that already have eggs. ❋ Heather McDougal (2007)

Accordingly he shouted to his eunuchs and women an order to serve food, and they set before them a tray containing birds of every king that walk and fly and in nests increase and multiply, such as sand-grouse and quails and pigeon-poults and lambs and fatted geese and fried poultry and other dishes of all sorts and colours. ❋ Unknown (2006)

You are referring to Parque Juarez and, unfortunately in some people's minds, the city is removing the bird nests from the trees so that a stroll in the park on Sunday does not need head protection from droppings from above. ❋ Unknown (2005)

They had no beds, but slept in nests of straw, each sex in common with the other, they having no belief in or respect for the marriage ceremony. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Such differences depend most probably on the fact that a greater number of slaves occur in Swiss than in English nests, and they may therefore be employed in a wider range of duties on the Continent than at home. ❋ Various (1891)

"built their nests" in the tree: the Greek word has no such meaning; the word merely means "to settle or rest upon" anything for a longer or shorter time; nor is there any occasion to suppose that the expression "fowls of the air" denotes any other than the smaller insessorial kinds -- linnets, finches, etc. ❋ Unknown (1884)

Started off today by working on a couple of challenge pieces - a piece to theme "birds" for the Mixed Media Monday Challenge - this is a 6x6 piece, hand-dyed fabric stamped with a bird stamp in purple and blue, then quilted with feathers, then birds stamped on paper added and little feather "nests" - I'm calling it "Birds of a Feather". ❋ Katelnorth (2007)

As Beckwith scanned the chamber from his “hide,” as snipers called their nests, he wondered if he might be that someone. ❋ Jeff Long (2007)

Brown-winged terns occupied cool nooks and crannies in the rocks, and other species of terns had egg reserves — they cannot be called nests — on the unshaded coral bank. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Using a twig to fish termites out of their nests is a particularly good example of a learned behavior where the young chimpanzees carefully watch the elders and try to copy them. ❋ Unknown (1999)

The frigate birds, (who may have acted as a sort of aristocracy,) had a part completely to themselves; their nests were a platform of a foot high, on each of which was one young bird, (the heir to the estate.) ❋ Various (N/A)

The word for "rooms," 6: 14, in the margin is "nests" -- a primitive description. ❋ Frank Nelson Palmer (N/A)

When the young birds become fledged, it is thought time to seize upon their nests, which is done regularly three times a year, and is effected by means of ladders of bamboo and reeds, by which the people descend into the caverns; but when these are very deep, rope-ladders are preferred. ❋ Frances Bowyer Vaux (N/A)

What he discovered was both ludicrous and annoying, for there by one of the nests was his small bear in the act of pawing out an egg, while the empty shell of another upon the ground told only too plainly that he had discovered the use of eggs. ❋ Clarence Hawkes (1901)

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