Definitions for nested

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nested nest·ed

Spelling: [nes-tid]

IPA: /ˈnɛs tɪd/

Nested is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 90 anagrams from letters in nested (deenst).

Definitions for nested

noun

1. a pocketlike, usually more or less circular structure of twigs, grass, mud, etc., formed by a bird, often high in a tree, as a place in which to lay and incubate its eggs and rear its young; any protected place used by a bird for these purposes.
2. a place used by insects, fishes, turtles, rabbits, etc., for depositing their eggs or young.
3. a number of birds, insects, animals, etc., inhabiting one such place.
4. a snug retreat or refuge; resting place; home.
5. an assemblage of things lying or set close together, as a series of boxes or trays, that fit within each other:
6. a place where something bad is fostered or flourishes:
7. the occupants or frequenters of such a place.

adjective

1. (of an ordered collection of sets or intervals) having the property that each set is contained in the preceding set and the length or diameter of the sets approaches zero as the number of sets tends to infinity.

verb (used with object)

1. to settle or place (something) in or as if in a nest:
2. to fit or place one within another:

verb (used without object)

1. to build or have a nest:
2. to settle in or as if in a nest.
3. to fit together or within another or one another:
4. to search for or collect nests:
5. Computers. to place a routine inside another routine that is at a higher hierarchical level.

Origin of nested

First recorded in 1720-30; nest + -ed³

Examples for nested

When they nested in posts they used at times much larger prey.

At some time in the past birds had nested there, but that was all.

This season the mother robin had nested upon the top of the beaver house.

She had a dimpled chin that nested in a fluffy blurr of lace.

They nested in their old corner under the eaves of Caspar's gable-roof.

What doth the blackbird in the boughs Sing all day to his nested spouse?

They nested, as usual, deep in the bank below, in a hollow formed by her roots.

Two years running a bird had nested in the cornice over the porch.

Fageeh decided to test out the big city waters of New York, so he applied to Columbia University and nested in Harlem.

Already the place where we nested is frozen and covered with snow.