nest
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Is nest a Scrabble word?
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- Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
- Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
- Wordle No
- Words With Friends Yes
What is the meaning of nest?
Definition
noun (English)
1. (card games) 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.Examples: "I was forced to change trumps when I found the ace, jack, and nine of diamonds in the nest."
2. (military) A fortified position for a weapon.Examples: "a machine gun nest"
3. (computing) A structure consisting of nested structures, such as nested loops or nested subroutine calls.Examples: "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."; "Our analysis to this point has assumed that in a loop nest, we are only parallelizing a single loop."
4. (geology) An aggregated mass of any ore or mineral, in an isolated state, within a rock.
5. (vulgar, slang, now US) The pubic hair near a vulva or a vulva itself.Synonyms: beav, beaverUSslangvulgar
verb (English)
1. (intransitive, of animals) To build or settle into a nest.intransitive
2. (intransitive) To settle into a home.Examples: "We loved the new house and were nesting there in two days!"intransitive
3. (intransitive) To successively neatly fit inside another.Examples: "I bought a set of nesting mixing bowls for my mother."intransitive
4. (transitive) To place in, or as if in, a nest.transitive
5. (transitive) To place one thing neatly inside another, and both inside yet another (and so on).Examples: "There would be much more room in the attic if you had nested all the empty boxes."transitive
6. (intransitive) To hunt for birds' nests or their contents (usually "go nesting").Examples: "After the first heavy frost, when acorns were falling, I took a friend into partnership and went nesting."intransitive
noun (English)
1. (education) Initialism of native English-speaking teacher.abbreviationalt-ofinitialism
Definition source: Wiktionary