nest
noun
/nɛst/
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- A structure built by a bird as a place to incubate eggs and rear young.
- A snug, comfortable, or cosy residence or job situation.
- A home that a child or young adult shares with a parent or guardian.
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pesä
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- A place used by another mammal, fish, amphibian or insect, for depositing eggs and hatching young.
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pesä,
kolo
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- A hideout for bad people to frequent or haunt; a den.
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pesä,
pesäpaikka
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- A retreat, or place of habitual resort.
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pesä,
kotipesä
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- (military) A fortified position for a weapon.
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pesäke
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nest
verb
/nɛst/
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- (intransitive) To settle into a home.
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kotiutua,
käydä taloksi
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- (transitive) To place in, or as if in, a nest.
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laittaa pesään
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- (transitive) To place one thing neatly inside another, and both inside yet another (and so on).
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laittaa sisäkkäin
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- (intransitive, of animals) To build or settle into a nest.
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pesiytyä,
pesiä
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- (intransitive) To successively neatly fit inside another.
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sopia sisäkkäin
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nesting
noun
/ˈnɛstɪŋ/
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- The process by which a bird nests.
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pesiminen,
pesintä
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- (programming) The enclosure of one self-contained element of code inside another.
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sisäkkäisyys
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nested
adjective
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- Successively fitted one inside another.
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kerrosteinen
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