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Nest can be a noun or a verb.
nest used as a noun:
- A structure built by a bird as a place to incubate eggs and rear young.
- A place used by another mammal, fish, amphibian or insect, for depositing eggs and hatching young.
- A snug, comfortable, or cozy residence or job situation.
- A retreat, or place of habitual resort.
- A hideout for bad people to frequent or haunt.
"That nightclub is a nest of strange people!" - 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." - 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." - A structure in a programming code, like blocks, functions, subroutines, etc.
Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →
nest used as a verb:
- To build or settle into a nest.
- To settle into a home.
"We loved the new house and were nesting there in 2 days!" - To successively neatly fit inside another.
"I bought a set of nesting mixing bowls for mom." - To place in, or as if in, a nest.
- 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."
Verbs are action words and state of being words. Examples of action words are: ran, attacking, dreamed. Examples of "state of being" words are: is, was, be. Learn more →
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What type of word is nest?
- Noun usage: That nightclub is a nest of strange people!
- Noun usage: I am aspiring to leave the nest.
- Noun usage: I was forced to change trumps when I found the ace, jack, and nine of diamonds in the nest.
- Verb usage: We loved the new house and were nesting there in 2 days!
- Verb usage: I bought a set of nesting mixing bowls for mom.
- Verb usage: There would be much more room in the attic if you had nested all the empty boxes.
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of nest are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of nest, and guess at its most common usage.
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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.
The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.
Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.
Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.
Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).