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nest
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /n?st/
- Rhymes: -?st
Etymology 1
From Middle English nest, nist, nyst, from Old English nest, from Proto-West Germanic *nest, from Proto-Germanic *nest?, from Proto-Indo-European *nisdós (“nest”), literally "where [the bird] sits down", a compound of *ni (“down”) (whence also English nether) + the zero-grade of the root *sed- (“to sit”) (whence also English sit).
Noun
nest (plural nests)
- 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 cosy residence or job situation.
- A retreat, or place of habitual resort.
- A hideout for bad people to frequent or haunt; a den.
- 1895, Frances Power Cobbe, Life of Frances Power Cobbe, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, Volume 1, Chapter 10, p. 254,[1]
- Miss Carpenter told me that a short time previously some Bow Street constables had been sent down to this place to ferret out a crime which had been committed there, and that they reported there was not in all London such a nest of wickedness as they had explored.
- 1895, Frances Power Cobbe, Life of Frances Power Cobbe, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, Volume 1, Chapter 10, p. 254,[1]
- A home that a child or young adult shares with a parent or guardian.
- I am aspiring to leave the nest.
- (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.
- I was forced to change trumps when I found the ace, jack, and nine of diamonds in the nest.
- (military) A fortified position for a weapon.
- a machine gun nest
- (computing) A structure consisting of nested structures, such as nested loops or nested subroutine calls.
- 1981, Donnamaie E. White, Bit-Slice Design: Controllers and ALU's,[2] Garland STPM Press, ?ISBN, 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, page 178:
- Our analysis to this point has assumed that in a loop nest, we are only parallelizing a single loop.
- 1981, Donnamaie E. White, Bit-Slice Design: Controllers and ALU's,[2] Garland STPM Press, ?ISBN, page 49:
- A circular bed of pasta, rice, etc. to be topped or filled with other foods.
- (geology) An aggregated mass of any ore or mineral, in an isolated state, within a rock.
- A collection of boxes, cases, or the like, of graduated size, each put within the one next larger.
- A compact group of pulleys, gears, springs, etc., working together or collectively.
Quotations
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:nest.
Derived terms
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English nesten, nisten, from Old English nistan, nistian, from Proto-West Germanic *nistijan (“to nest, build a nest”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian näästje (“to nest”), Dutch nesten (“to nest”), German Low German nüsten (“to nest”), German nisten (“to nest”).
Verb
nest (third-person singular simple present nests, present participle nesting, simple past and past participle nested)
- (intransitive, of animals) To build or settle into a nest.
- (intransitive) To settle into a home.
- We loved the new house and were nesting there in two days!
- (intransitive) To successively neatly fit inside another.
- I bought a set of nesting mixing bowls for my mother.
- (transitive) To place in, or as if in, a nest.
- (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.
- (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.
- 1895, Alfred Emanuel Smith, Francis Walton
Translations
See also
- nest on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Nest in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
Anagrams
- ENTs, Sten, TENS, ents, nets, sent, sent., snet, tens
Dutch
Etymology
From Middle Dutch nest, from Old Dutch nest, from Proto-Germanic *nestaz. Cognate with English, German Nest etc.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /n?st/
- Hyphenation: nest
- Rhymes: -?st
Noun
nest n (plural nesten, diminutive nestje n)
- A nest (place to hatch young, especially bird structure; snug residence; retreat; hideout; home)
- (colloquial) One's bed
- A nasty, ill-behaving or pretentious child; a brat.
Derived terms
Descendants
- Afrikaans: nes
- ? Papiamentu: nèshi
Elfdalian
Etymology
From Old Norse næstr, cognate with Swedish näst, English next.
Preposition
nest
- by, near
Latgalian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /n?æs?t?/
Verb
nest
- to carry, to bear, to drive, to sweep
Latvian
Etymology
Cognate with Lithuanian nèšti (“to carry, bring”), see there for more.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /nest/
Verb
nest (tr., 1st conj., pres. nesu, nes, nes, past nesu)
- (transitive) to carry
- (transitive) to bring
Conjugation
Derived terms
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
Adverbial form of neste
Adverb
nest
- next, second
- nest største - second largest
Derived terms
- nestleder
References
- “nest” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
Adverbial form of neste
Adverb
nest
- next, second
- nest eldst - second oldest
References
- “nest” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old English
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *nest, from Proto-Germanic *nest?. Cognate with Old Church Slavonic ?????? (gn?zdo, “nest”), Old Irish net (“nest”), Latin n?dus (“nest”), Sanskrit ??? (n??a, “nest”), Albanian neth (“sprout, bud”), Old Armenian ???? (nist, “sitting; seat; property”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /nest/
Noun
nest n
- nest
Declension
Related terms
- nestlian
- nistan
Descendants
- Middle English: nest, nist, nyst
- English: nest
- Scots: nest
Welsh
Alternative forms
- gnest
- gwnest
Pronunciation
- (North Wales) IPA(key): /n?sd/, [n?st]
- (South Wales) IPA(key): /ne?sd/, [ne?st], /n?sd/, [n?st]
Verb
nest (not mutable)
- (colloquial) second-person singular preterite of gwneud
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pallet
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?pæl?t/
- (US) IPA(key): /?pæl?t/, /?pæl?t/
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /?pæl?t/
- Rhymes: -æl?t
- Homophones: palate, palette, pallette
Etymology 1
From Middle English palet, from Anglo-Norman palete, from Old Norse pallr. Doublet of palette.
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Noun
pallet (plural pallets)
- A portable platform, usually designed to be easily moved by a forklift, on which goods can be stacked, for transport or storage.
- (military) A flat base for combining stores or carrying a single item to form a unit load for handling, transportation, and storage by materials handling equipment.
- (military) (DOD only) 463L pallet – An 88” x 108” aluminum flat base used to facilitate the upload and download of aircraft.
Derived terms
- palletainer
- palletizer
Translations
Verb
pallet (third-person singular simple present pallets, present participle palleting, simple past and past participle palleted)
- (transitive) To load or stack (goods) onto pallets.
Etymology 2
From Middle English paillet, from Anglo-Norman paillete (“bundle of straw”), from Old French paille (“straw, chaff”), from Latin palea (“chaff”).
Noun
pallet (plural pallets)
- A straw bed.
- (by extension) A makeshift bed.
Translations
Etymology 3
From Latin palla (“to cut”), hence “a strip of cloth”.
Noun
pallet (plural pallets)
- (heraldry) A narrow vertical stripe. Diminutive of pale.
Etymology 4
Noun
pallet (plural pallets)
- (painting) Archaic form of palette.
- 1798, Robert Southey, The Pious Painter
- The Old Dragon fled when the wonder he spied, / And cursed his own fruitless endeavor; / While the Painter call'd after his rage to deride, / Shook his pallet and brushes in triumph, and cried, / "I'll paint thee more ugly than ever!"
- 1860, Chambers's Information for the People (volume 1, page 203)
- For example, let a painter's pallet be suspended from the thumb-hole, as in the figure […]
- 1798, Robert Southey, The Pious Painter
- A wooden implement, often oval or round, used by potters, crucible makers, etc., for forming, beating, and rounding their works.
- A potter's wheel.
- (gilding) An instrument used to take up gold leaf from the pillow, and to apply it.
- (gilding) A tool for gilding the backs of books over the bands.
- (brickmaking) A board on which a newly moulded brick is conveyed to the hack.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Knight to this entry?)
- (engineering) A click or pawl for driving a ratchet wheel.
- (engineering) One of the series of disks or pistons in the chain pump.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Knight to this entry?)
- (horology) One of the pieces or levers connected with the pendulum of a clock, or the balance of a watch, which receive the immediate impulse of the scape-wheel, or balance wheel.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Brande & C to this entry?)
- (music) In the organ, a valve between the wind chest and the mouth of a pipe or row of pipes.
- (zoology) One of a pair of shelly plates that protect the siphon tubes of certain bivalves, such as the Teredo.
- A cup containing three ounces, formerly used by surgeons.
References
- The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford University Press
- Notes:
Anagrams
- L-plate, laplet, platel
Dutch
Etymology
From English pallet.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?p?l?t/
- Homophone: pellet
- Rhymes: -?t
Noun
pallet m (plural pallets, diminutive palletje n)
- pallet
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from English pallet.
Noun
pallet m (plural pallet)
- pallet
Latin
Verb
pallet
- third-person singular present active indicative of palle?
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