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nesting

/ˈnɛstɪŋ/

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verb

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

Examples :

"The mother bird is carefully nesting in the tree, building a safe home for her eggs. "

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verb

To settle into a home.

Examples :

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

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verb

To successively neatly fit inside another.

Examples :

"I bought a set of nesting mixing bowls for my mother."

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verb

To place in, or as if in, a nest.

Examples :

"The mother bird is carefully nesting her eggs in the soft leaves. "

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verb

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."

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verb

To hunt for birds' nests or their contents (usually "go nesting").

Examples :

"During the summer, the children enjoyed nesting in the woods behind their house, hoping to find robin's eggs. "

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noun

The process by which a bird nests.

Examples :

"The bird's nesting took several days, as it carefully arranged twigs and leaves. "

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noun

The enclosure of one loop, block, etc. of code inside another.

Examples :

"The excessive nesting of `if` statements made the code very difficult to read and debug. "

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