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nest

IPA(Pronunciation)

/nɛst/

Noun

US slang vulgar

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.

Japanese Meaning

鳥が卵を温め、ヒナを育てるために作る構造物（巣） / 他の哺乳類、魚類、両生類、昆虫などが卵を産み、孵化させるために使用する場所

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The sparrows abandoned their nest when a storm destroyed the surrounding branches.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

そのスズメたちは、嵐が周囲の枝を壊したとき、卵を温めて雛を育てるために作った巣を放棄した。

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A structure built by a bird as a place to incubate eggs and rear young.

Sense（2）

A place used by another mammal, fish, amphibian or insect, for depositing eggs and hatching young.

Sense（3）

A snug, comfortable, or cosy residence or job situation.

Sense（4）

A retreat, or place of habitual resort.

Sense（5）

A hideout for bad people to frequent or haunt; a den.

a nest of thieves

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Sense（6）

A home that a child or young adult shares with a parent or guardian.

I am aspiring to leave the nest.

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Sense（7）

(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.

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Sense（8）

(military) A fortified position for a weapon.

a machine gun nest

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Sense（9）

(computing) A structure consisting of nested structures, such as nested loops or nested subroutine calls.

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.

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Sense（10）

A circular bed of pasta, rice, etc. to be topped or filled with other foods.

Sense（11）

(geology) An aggregated mass of any ore or mineral, in an isolated state, within a rock.

Sense（12）

A collection of boxes, cases, or the like, of graduated size, each put within the one next larger.

Sense（13）

A compact group of pulleys, gears, springs, etc., working together or collectively.

Sense（14）

(vulgar, slang, now US) The pubic hair near a vulva or a vulva itself.

nests

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