present participle and gerund of nest

The process by which a bird nests. / (programming) The enclosure of one loop, block, etc. of code inside another.

plural of nesting

(intransitive, of animals) To build or settle into a nest. / (intransitive) To settle into a home. / (intransitive) To successively neatly fit inside another.

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 surname.

plural of nest

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of nest

simple past tense and past participle of nest

Embedded. / Successively fitted one inside another. / (lexicography) (Of a lexical item) contained within a dictionary entry as a subordinate term of the main headword.