transcription, транскрипция: [ nest ]
( nests, nesting, nested)
1.
A bird’s nest is the home that it makes to lay its eggs in.
I can see an eagle’s nest on the rocks.
N-COUNT : oft poss N
2.
When a bird nests somewhere, it builds a nest and settles there to lay its eggs.
Some species may nest in close proximity to each other.
...nesting sites.
VERB : V , V-ing
3.
A nest is a home that a group of insects or other creatures make in order to live in and give birth to their young in.
Some solitary bees make their nests in burrows in the soil.
...a rat’s nest.
N-COUNT : usu poss N
4.
see also crow’s nest , love nest
5.
When children fly the nest , they leave their parents’ home to live on their own.
When their children had flown the nest, he and his wife moved to a thatched cottage in Dorset.
= leave home
PHRASE : V inflects
6.
a hornet’s nest: see hornet