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# nest

«nest» in Mova's school dictionary: **a home that birds build to lay their eggs and raise their…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a nest, nests); verb (nest, nests, nested, nesting)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A nest is a home that birds build to lay their eggs and raise their young. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nest/#m1)

2) Other animals make nests too: wasps, ants, mice and squirrels. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nest/#m2)

3) To nest means to build or live in a nest. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nest/#m3)

4) Things that nest fit inside each other, like nesting dolls or bowls. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nest/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In science nests are part of how animals look after their young; birds use twigs, grass, mud and feathers. In safety and nature lessons: never touch a bird's nest or a wasp nest, and leave baby birds alone; in spring many birds are nesting. Phrases: bird's nest, wasps' nest, build a nest, leave the nest, empty nest, nesting box.

### examples

- A robin built a nest in our hedge. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nest/#x1)
- There are three blue eggs in the nest. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nest/#x2)
- Don't poke a wasp nest; the wasps will sting you. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nest/#x3)
- The baby birds left the nest when they could fly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nest/#x4)
- Squirrels make nests called dreys high in the trees. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nest/#x5)
- We put up a nesting box in the garden. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nest/#x6)
- Don't disturb birds when they are nesting. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nest/#x7)
- The little bowls nest inside each other to save space. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nest/#x8)
- "This is my nest," I said. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nest/#x9)

### note

Countable: a nest, nests. A bird's nest belongs to the bird; in many places it is against the law to take eggs or damage nests in use. Not every bird uses a nest for sleeping; nests are mainly for eggs and chicks.

### In the corpora

- [Crocodiles lay eggs in nests; the mother guards them and carries the hatchlings to water in her mouth.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/29-crocodiles-and-alligators/9/)
- [The temperature of the nest decides whether the babies will be male or female.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/29-crocodiles-and-alligators/10/)
- [Woodpeckers hammer wood up to about 20 times a second to find grubs, dig nests and drum to claim a territory.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/35-birds-of-every-kind/14/)
- [An echidna has no teeth and catches ants and termites with a long sticky tongue after breaking into their nests with strong claws.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/43-platypus-and-echidna/13/)
- [Gorillas and other great apes build a new nest of leaves and branches every night, or of straw in a zoo.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/84-ape-house-gorillas-and-chimpanzees/14/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «nest» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nest/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.