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nest noun

  /nɛst/
  • 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.
 pesä
  • A place used by a monotreme, fish, amphibian or insect, for depositing eggs and hatching young.
 pesä, kolo
  • A hideout for bad people to frequent or haunt; a den.
 pesä, pesäpaikka
  • A retreat, or place of habitual resort.
 pesä, kotipesä
  • (military) A fortified position for a weapon.
 pesäke

nest verb

  /nɛst/
  • (intransitive) To settle into a home.
 kotiutua, käydä taloksi
  • (transitive) To place in, or as if in, a nest.
 laittaa pesään
  • (transitive) To place one thing neatly inside another, and both inside yet another (and so on).
 laittaa sisäkkäin
  • (intransitive, of animals) To build or settle into a nest.
 pesiytyä, pesiä
  • (intransitive) To successively neatly fit inside another.
 sopia sisäkkäin

nesting noun

  /ˈnɛstɪŋ/
  • The process by which a bird nests.
 pesiminen, pesintä
  • (programming) The enclosure of one self-contained element of code inside another.
 sisäkkäisyys

nested adjective

  • Successively fitted one inside another.
 kerrosteinen
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