nest

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A structure built by a bird as a place to incubate eggs and rear young.
  2. A place used by a monotreme, fish, amphibian or insect, for depositing eggs and hatching young.
  3. A snug, comfortable, or cosy residence or job situation.
  4. A retreat, or place of habitual resort.
  5. A hideout for bad people to frequent or haunt; a den.
    — a nest of thieves
  6. A home that a child or young adult shares with a parent or guardian.
    — I am aspiring to leave the nest.
  7. 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.
  8. A fortified position for a weapon.
    — a machine gun nest
  9. A structure consisting of nested structures, such as nested loops or nested subroutine calls.
    — 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.
  10. A circular bed of pasta, rice, etc. to be topped or filled with other foods.
  11. An aggregated mass of any ore or mineral, in an isolated state, within a rock.
  12. A collection of boxes, cases, or the like, of graduated size, each put within the one next larger.
  13. A compact group of pulleys, gears, springs, etc., working together or collectively.
  14. The pubic hair near a vulva or a vulva itself. US,slang,vulgar
动词 v.
  1. To build or settle into a nest. intransitive
  2. To settle into a home. intransitive
    — We loved the new house and were nesting there in two days!
  3. To successively neatly fit inside another. intransitive
    — I bought a set of nesting mixing bowls for my mother.
  4. To place in, or as if in, a nest. transitive
  5. To place one thing neatly inside another, and both inside yet another (and so on). transitive
    — There would be much more room in the attic if you had nested all the empty boxes.
  6. To hunt for birds' nests or their contents (usually "go nesting"). intransitive
    — After the first heavy frost, when acorns were falling, I took a friend into partnership and went nesting.

词形变化

nests plural nests present,singular,third-person nesting participle,present nested participle,past nested past

词汇关系

衍生词
misnest nestable renest
相关词
nestling Nest in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

词源

词源 1
From Middle English nest, nist, nyst, from Old English nest, from Proto-West Germanic *nest, from Proto-Germanic *nestą, from Proto-Indo-European *nisdós (“nest”), literally "where [the bird] sits down", a compound of *ni (“down”) (whence also English nether) + the zero-grade of the root *sed- (“to sit”) (whence also English sit).
词源 2
From Middle English nesten, nisten, from Old English nistan, nistian, from Proto-West Germanic *nistijan (“to nest, build a nest”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian näästje (“to nest”), Dutch nesten (“to nest”), German Low German nüsten (“to nest”), German nisten (“to nest”).
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