nest

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Being able to nest tabs and then collapse them is awesome.

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Quick take

a structure in which animals lay eggs or give birth to their young

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of nest gathered in one view.

noun

a structure in which animals lay eggs or give birth to their young

noun

a kind of gun emplacement; "a machine-gun nest"; "a nest of snipers"

noun

a cosy or secluded retreat

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for nest.

noun

a structure in which animals lay eggs or give birth to their young

noun

a kind of gun emplacement; "a machine-gun nest"; "a nest of snipers"

noun

a cosy or secluded retreat

noun

a gang of people (criminals or spies or terrorists) assembled in one locality; "a nest of thieves"

noun

furniture pieces made to fit close together

verb

inhabit a nest, usually after building; "birds are nesting outside my window every Spring"

verb

fit together or fit inside; "nested bowls"

verb

move or arrange oneself in a comfortable and cozy position; "We cuddled against each other to keep warm"; "The children snuggled into their sleeping bags"

See also: cuddle, snuggle, nestle, nuzzle

verb

gather nests

Example sentences

Being able to nest tabs and then collapse them is awesome.

While I also find the incredibly deep nesting on the excessive side, I can explain it.

I expect the next step will be that a quad-copter UAV will 'nest' on top of a ShotSpotter pole where is will stay charged.

But Stoicism teaches us that fate is a lot more powerful than our nesting activities.

Sure, the motion sensors in a nest thermostat can sense when somebody is in your house, and what the temperature is.

We have Anonymous who generally wreaks havoc on whomever pokes that hornets nest.

It's a Web where user agentsbrowsersmust navigate a nest of enforced duties every time they visit a page.

It seems every month some one-sided account will splash onto HN's front page, stir up a hornet's nest of indignation, resulting in long, angry rants and calls for heads to roll.

Had Apple bought nest, you'd have to log into your icloud account to manage it, via your idevice, with no other management abilities available.

To do the same selection process in vanilla JS, I'll need to nest 2 getElementsByClassName functions in a getElementByID function, and return the concatenated results from each potential .container.

Isn't it funny to think about how, if Tridge hadn't done what he did, if all of Linus' public shaming of Tridge had done the trick and the Linux kernel had stayed on Bitkeeper, that we wouldn't have had git, or Github?Linus did a good job of coming up with a replacement tool in a hurry, but I'm also grateful to Tridge for poking a stick into the hornets' nest.