A Quick and Simple Dictionary

nest

1. Noun.  A structure built by a bird as a place to incubate eggs and rear young.
2. Noun.  A place used by another mammal, fish, amphibian or insect, for depositing eggs and hatching young.
3. Noun.  A snug, comfortable, or cozy residence or job situation.
4. Noun.  A retreat, or place of habitual resort.
5. Noun.  A hideout for bad people to frequent or haunt.
6. Noun.  A home that a child or young adult shares with a parent, guardian, or a person acting in the capacity of a parent or guardian. A parental home.
7. Noun.  (context, cards) A fixed amount of cards in some bidding games awarded to the highest bidder allowing him to exchange any or all with cards in his hand.
8. Noun.  (military) A fortified position for a weapon, e.g. a machine gun nest.
9. Noun.  (computing) A structure consisting of nested structures, such as nested loops or nested subroutine calls.
10. Noun.  Pasta formed into a round shape.
11. Verb.  (intransitive, of animals) To build or settle into a nest.
12. Verb.  (intransitive) To settle into a home.
13. Verb.  (intransitive) To successively neatly fit inside another.
14. Verb.  (transitive) To place in, or as if in, a nest.
15. Verb.  (transitive) To place one thing neatly inside another, and both inside yet another (and so on).
16. Verb.  (intransitive) To hunt for birds' nests or their contents (usually "go nesting").