Definizione monolingua

nest

nest (third-person singular simple present nests, present participle nesting, simple past and past participle nested)

1. (intransitive, of animals) To build or settle into a nest.
2. (intransitive) To settle into a home.

   We loved the new house and were nesting there in 2 days!

3. (intransitive) To successively neatly fit inside another.

   I bought a set of nesting mixing bowls for mom.

4. (transitive) To place in, or as if in, a nest.
5. (transitive) To place one thing neatly inside another, and both inside yet another (and so on).

   There would be much more room in the attic if you had nested all the empty boxes.

6. (intransitive) To hunt for birds nests or their contents (usually ""go nesting"").
   • 1895, Alfred Emanuel Smith, Francis Walton

     After the first heavy frost, when acorns were falling, I took a friend into partnership and went nesting.

nest (plural nests)

1. A structure built by a bird as a place to incubate eggs and rear young.
2. A place used by another mammal, fish, amphibian or insect, for depositing eggs and hatching young.
3. A snug, comfortable, or cozy residence or job situation.
4. A retreat, or place of habitual resort.
5. A hideout for bad people to frequent or haunt.

   That nightclub is a nest of strange people!

6. 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.

   I am aspiring to leave the nest.

7. (card games) 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.

   I was forced to change trumps when I found the ace, jack, and nine of diamonds in the nest.

8. (military) A fortified position for a weapon, e.g. a machine gun nest.
9. (computing) A structure consisting of nested structures, such as nested loops or nested subroutine calls.
   • 1981, Donnamaie E. White, Bit-Slice Design: Controllers and ALUs,^[1] Garland STPM Press, ISBN 9780824071035, page 49:

     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.

   • 1993 August, Bwolen Yang et al., ""Do&Merge: Integrating Parallel Loops and Reductions"", in Languages and Compilers for Parallel Computing (workshop proceedings), Springer (1994), ISBN 978-3-540-57659-4, page 178:

     Our analysis to this point has assumed that in a loop nest, we are only parallelizing a single loop.

Definizione dizionario nest

	nido
	snug residence
	retreat
	place for depositing eggs
	hideout
	bird-built structure

	annidare
	To embed one construct inside another. For example, a database may contain a nested table (a table within a table), a program may contain a nested procedure (a procedure declared within a procedure), and a data structure may include a nested record (a record containing a field that is itself a record).

	fare il nido
	To build or settle into a nest.

annidarsi

covo

nidificare

tana

Altri significati:

to successively place inside another

(intransitive, of animals) To build or settle into a nest.

to place in a nest

A structure built by a bird as a place to incubate eggs and rear young.

(intransitive) To successively neatly fit inside another.

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.

(computing) A structure consisting of nested structures, such as nested loops or nested subroutine calls.

(transitive) To place one thing neatly inside another, and both inside yet another (and so on).

parental home

(intransitive) To settle into a home.

to settle into a home

A hideout for bad people to frequent or haunt.

A place used by another mammal, fish, amphibian or insect, for depositing eggs and hatching young.

(transitive) To place in, or as if in, a nest.

(military) A fortified position for a weapon, e.g. a machine gun nest.

to build or settle into a nest

A retreat, or place of habitual resort.

(card games) 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.

live (of animals)

to successively neatly fit

A snug, comfortable, or cozy residence or job situation.