Used in a Sentence

nestling

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for nestling.

Editorial note

Theoretically, the victim bird will then incubate the egg and potentially feed and rear the nestling as if that nestling were the bird's own child.

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Parts of speech1

Quick take

A small, young bird that is still confined to the nest.

Meaning at a glance

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noun

A small, young bird that is still confined to the nest.

noun

The act of one who nestles.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for nestling.

Example sentences

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Theoretically, the victim bird will then incubate the egg and potentially feed and rear the nestling as if that nestling were the bird's own child.

2

Tiny little guys just like grains of sand nestling among the larger circles, looking to be useful.

3

By nestling the EEG inside the ear, the engineers avoid a lot of signal noise usually introduced by body movement.

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Sometimes there's vertical stacking, sometimes horizontal, occasionally more complex interactions like nestling inside an L.

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In a startup environment, especially if you're one of the key stakeholders, you have a high incentive structure nestling you along.

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Then, extend the center can out a ways, on the axis, and start over, nestling new cans honeycomb-wise.

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A small pigeon nestling in your cupped hands in winter is marvellously warm.

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Sufficiently nasty code may be able to persist across reboots by nestling in firmware, but that does not pose an additional security problem.

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It would consist of several steel tanks nestling one inside another.

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It's just a concrete nub nestling in some undergrowth.

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Repost with readable formatting: > [Ford] slowly drew out from the wallet a single and insanely exciting piece of plastic that was nestling amongst a bunch of receipts.

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I think nestling somewhere in the core of the GP's comment is that Ruby also has `yield`, and using it (or related functionality) is pervasive.

Quote examples

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“Swedish region” here doesn’t mean “Sweden”, it’s Västra Götaland which is a biggish county, just nestling under the southern tip of Norway.

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One designs a message: "people who drink $cola are fun" and then the creative to convey that message - such as an image showing someone smiling, nestling the product in their hands.

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The outcome, at least with electronics, is that you'll find a lot of 30-40 year old equipment nestling next to the state of the art with a sticker on it "for indication only".

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The questions they asked are spon on: "To what extent is the growth of nestling blue tits (Cyanistes caeruleus) influenced by competition with siblings?" and "How does grass cover influence Eucalyptus spp.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use nestling in a sentence?

Theoretically, the victim bird will then incubate the egg and potentially feed and rear the nestling as if that nestling were the bird's own child.

What does nestling mean?

A small, young bird that is still confined to the nest.

What part of speech is nestling?

nestling is commonly used as noun.