Nests - English meaning

Nests – definitions in English dictionary

noun
A structure or place made or chosen by a bird for laying eggs and sheltering its young.
Usage examples:
Two sparrows frantically building a nest
Synonims:
RoostEyrieNest boxNesting boxBirdhouse
noun
A place filled with undesirable people, activities, or things.
Usage examples:
A nest of spies
Synonims:
HotbedDenBreeding groundCradleSeedbedForcing house
noun
A set of similar objects of graduated sizes, made so that each smaller one fits into the next in size for storage.
Usage examples:
A nest of tables
Synonims:
ClusterSetGroupAssemblage

verb
(of a bird or other animal) use or build a nest.
Usage examples:
The owls often nest in barns
verb
Fit (an object or objects) inside a larger one.
Usage examples:
The town is nested inside a large crater on the flanks of a volcano

noun
A structure or other place where creatures, esp. birds, give birth or leave their eggs to develop
Usage examples:
Swallows are nesting in our apple tree.

Nests translation into English

Nests: translate from English into Chinese

巢

Nests: translate from English into Dutch

Nesten

Nests: translate from English into French

Nids

Nests: translate from English into German

Nester

Nests: translate from English into Hindi

घोंसले

Nests: translate from English into Italian

Nidi

Nests: translate from English into Korean

둥지

Nests: translate from English into Russian

Гнезда

Nests: translate from English into Spanish

Nidos

Word origin

Old English, of Germanic origin; related to Latin nidus, from the Indo-European bases of nether (meaning ‘down’) and sit.

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Nests – similar words

nested

nest

adjective
(of similar objects of graduated sizes) placed or stored one inside the other.
Usage examples:
A set of three nested tables

verb
(of a bird or other animal) use or build a nest.
Usage examples:
The owls often nest in barns

adjective
(of a bird or other animal) building or occupying a nest.
Usage examples:
Do not disturb nesting birds

Nested - all meanings in English

nest

noun
A structure or place made or chosen by a bird for laying eggs and sheltering its young.
Usage examples:
Two sparrows frantically building a nest

verb
(of a bird or other animal) use or build a nest.
Usage examples:
The owls often nest in barns

noun
A structure or other place where creatures, esp. birds, give birth or leave their eggs to develop
Usage examples:
Swallows are nesting in our apple tree.

Nest - all meanings in English

Nests synonims

assemblage

əˈsem.blɪdʒ

noun
A collection or gathering of things or people.
Usage examples:
A loose assemblage of diverse groups

noun
A collection of things or a group of people or animals
Usage examples:
A varied assemblage of birds was probing the mud for food.

noun
The process of joining or putting things together

Assemblage - all meanings in English

birdhouse

ˈbɜːd.haʊs

noun
A box, typically made to resemble a house, provided for a bird to make its nest in; a nest box.
Usage examples:
I also enjoyed making a bird house to take home.

noun
A box for birds to nest in

Birdhouse - all meanings in English

cluster

ˈklʌs.tər

noun
A group of similar things or people positioned or occurring closely together.
Usage examples:
Clusters of creamy-white flowers

verb
Form a cluster or clusters.
Usage examples:
The children clustered round her skirts

verb
To form or gather together
Usage examples:
All his grandchildren clustered around him., dense clusters of delicate pink blossoms, this section…

Cluster - all meanings in English

cradle

ˈkreɪ.dəl

noun
A baby's bed or cot, typically one mounted on rockers.
Usage examples:
The baby slept peacefully in its cradle

verb
Hold gently and protectively.
Usage examples:
She cradled his head in her arms

noun
A small bed for a baby, esp. one with raised sides that can be pushed gently so that it moves from side to side
Usage examples:
Joe cradled his cup of coffee and began to speak.

Cradle - all meanings in English

den

noun
A wild mammal's hidden home; a lair.
Usage examples:
A female mink had set up her den there

verb
(of a wild animal) live in a den.
Usage examples:
The cubs denned in the late autumn

noun
The home of particular types of wild animal

Den - all meanings in English

eyrie

ˈɪə.ri

noun
A large nest of an eagle or other bird of prey, built high in a tree or on a cliff.
Usage examples:
Bald eagles build large stick nests called eyries in tall trees or on cliffs.

noun
The nest of an eagle or other large bird that eats meat, usually built in a high place that cannot be easily reached
Usage examples:
I interviewed the chairman of the company in his seventh-floor eyrie.

noun
A room or apartment that is high up in a building
Usage examples:
I interviewed the chairman of the company in his seventh-floor eyrie.

Eyrie - all meanings in English

group

noun
A number of people or things that are located, gathered, or classed together.
Usage examples:
A group of boys approached

verb
Put in a group or groups.
Usage examples:
Three chairs were grouped around a table

noun
A number of people or things that are together or considered as a unit
Usage examples:
A group of trees, i’m meeting a group of friends for dinner., a rock/soul group, she grouped the ch…

Group - all meanings in English

hotbed

noun
An environment promoting the growth of something, especially something unwelcome.
Usage examples:
The country was a hotbed of revolt and dissension

noun
A place or situation where a lot of a particular activity is happening or might happen
Usage examples:
Seattle is a hotbed of software publishing.

Hotbed - all meanings in English

roost

noun
A place where birds regularly settle or congregate to rest at night, or where bats congregate to rest in the day.
Usage examples:
Birds were hurrying to their evening roosts

verb
(of a bird or bat) settle or congregate for rest or sleep.
Usage examples:
Migrating martins and swallows were settling to roost

noun
(in the orkneys and shetlands) a tidal race.

Roost - all meanings in English

seedbed

noun
A bed of fine soil in which seedlings are germinated.
Usage examples:
This suggests that if newly germinated seedlings in seedbeds were exposed to low water potentials w…

Seedbed - all meanings in English

set

verb
Put, lay, or stand (something) in a specified place or position.
Usage examples:
Delaney set the mug of tea down

noun
A group or collection of things that belong together or resemble one another or are usually found together.
Usage examples:
A set of false teeth

verb
Variant spelling of sett.

Set - all meanings in English

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