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noun
noun
- A structure built by a bird as a place to incubate its eggs and rear its young.
- Any tangle of fibers resembling a typical nest of a bird.
- nest where birds lay their eggs and hatch their young
- Any of several plants having some resemblance to the typical nest of a bird, eg., the wild carrot (Daucus carota).
noun
- A structure built by a bird as a place to incubate eggs and rear young.
- (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.
- A collection of boxes, cases, or the like, of graduated size, each put within the one next larger.
- A compact group of pulleys, gears, springs, etc., working together or collectively.
- A circular bed of pasta, rice, etc. to be topped or filled with other foods.
- (computing) A structure consisting of nested structures, such as nested loops or nested subroutine calls.
- A retreat, or place of habitual resort.
- (military) A fortified position for a weapon.
- (geology) An aggregated mass of any ore or mineral, in an isolated state, within a rock.
- A place used by a monotreme, fish, amphibian or insect, for depositing eggs and hatching young.
- A snug, comfortable, or cosy residence or job situation.
- (vulgar, slang, now US) The pubic hair near a vulva or a vulva itself.
- A home that a child or young adult shares with a parent or guardian.
- A hideout for bad people to frequent or haunt; a den.
- a structure in which animals lay eggs or give birth to their young
- a cosy or secluded retreat
- a kind of gun emplacement
- a gang of people (criminals or spies or terrorists) assembled in one locality
- furniture pieces made to fit close together
verb
- inhabit a nest, usually after building
- gather nests
- (intransitive) To successively neatly fit inside another.
- (intransitive) To settle into a home.
- (intransitive) To hunt for birds' nests or their contents (usually "go nesting").
- (intransitive, of animals) To build or settle into a nest.
- (transitive) To place one thing neatly inside another, and both inside yet another (and so on).
- (transitive) To place in, or as if in, a nest.
- move or arrange oneself in a comfortable and cozy position
- fit together or fit inside
noun
- American warbler; builds a dome-shaped nest on the ground
- small brownish South American birds that build oven-shaped clay nests
- Any bird of the Central and South America family Furnariidae.
- Originally, any of several small European birds that build dome-shaped nests; such as the long-tailed tit, willow warbler and chiffchaff.
- An American warbler, Seiurus aurocapilla, that builds such a nest of vegetation.
noun
- a structure that provides a natural habitation for bees; as in a hollow tree
- a hairdo resembling a beehive
- a man-made receptacle that houses a swarm of bees
- any workplace where people are very busy
- Such a home prepared by the bees themselves, in which some species of honey bees live and raise their young.
- (figuratively) Any place full of activity, or in which people are very busy.
- A type of anti-personnel ammunition round containing flechettes, and characterised by the buzzing sound made as they fly through the air.
- A women's hairstyle, popular in the 1960s, in which long hair is styled into a hive-shaped form on top of the head and usually held in place with lacquer.
- (cellular automata) In Conway's Game of Life, a particular still life pattern with a rounded appearance.
- (cricket) A diagram showing where balls have passed the batter, used in analysis.
- (nonstandard, New Zealand) Alternative form of Beehive.
- A man-made structure in which honey bees are kept so that humans can harvest their honey.
- A particular style of hat.
verb
noun
- a structure that provides a natural habitation for bees; as in a hollow tree
- A structure, whether artificial or natural, for housing a swarm of honeybees.
- a man-made receptacle that houses a swarm of bees
- a teeming multitude
- The bees of one hive; a swarm of bees.
- (computing, Microsoft Windows) A section of the registry.
- An itchy, red, swollen area of the skin; singular or attributive form of hives.
- A place swarming with busy occupants; a crowd.
verb
- move together in a hive or as if in a hive
- store, like bees
- gather into a hive
- (transitive) To collect (bees) into a hive.
- (transitive) To store (something other than bees) in, or as if in, a hive.
- (entomology) Of insects: to enter or possess a hive.
- (intransitive) To form a hive-like entity.
- (intransitive) To take lodging or shelter together; to reside in a collective body.
noun
- a bird that has built (or is building) a nest
- One who nests.
- someone who settles lawfully on government land with the intent to acquire title to it
- One who forms a strong attachment to their home.
- (US, historical) A person who intends to settle in an area without permanent residents; a settler, as distinct from an explorer or pioneer.
noun
noun
- Something resembling such a structure.
- (bodybuilding) The body from the hips over the core to the shoulders.
- (figuratively) An essential part of something that provides support.
- (Roman Catholicism) A portable ornamental column, formerly carried before a cardinal, as emblematic of his support to the church.
- (geology) A vertical, often spire-shaped, natural rock formation.
- The centre of the volta, ring, or manege ground, around which a horse turns.
- (architecture) A large post, often used as supporting architecture.
- anything that approximates the shape of a column or tower
- a vertical cylindrical structure standing alone and not supporting anything (such as a monument)
- a fundamental principle or practice
- a prominent supporter
- (architecture) a tall vertical cylindrical structure standing upright and used to support a structure
verb
noun
verb
- (Scotland and Northern England) To settle, usually a quarrel.
- (transitive, Pennsylvania) To clean, tidy up, to put in order.
- (Scotland and Northern England) To fix boundaries.
- (Scotland and Northern England) To tidy up, clear away.
- simple past and past participle of rede
- (Scotland and Northern England) To comb hair.
- (Scotland and Northern England) To separate combatants.
noun
- An earthen structure constructed by certain ants for the purpose of brood incubation.
- (chiefly US and Canada) A room, rooftop, balcony, or terrace, used for its abundant sunlight, especially when used as a medical treatment.
- (chiefly UK) Synonym of tanning salon, a room or business used for its sunlamps or tanning beds.
- a room enclosed largely with glass and affording exposure to the sun
noun
- A shallow depression used by ground birds as a nest; a nest scrape.
- (heraldry) A diminutive of the bend (especially of the bend sinister) which is half its width.
- A broad, shallow injury left by scraping (rather than a cut or a scratch).
- (British, slang) A D and C or abortion; or, a miscarriage.
- An awkward set of circumstances.
- An intermittent shallow pond in a wetland or floodplain, often artificially created to attract birds.
- (military) A shallow pit dug as a hideout.
- (slang) A fight, especially a fistfight without weapons.
- (UK, slang) A shave.
- The sound or action of something being scraped.
- Something removed by being scraped; a thin layer of something such as butter on bread.
- a harsh noise made by scraping
- a deep bow with the foot drawn backwards (indicating excessive humility)
- an abraded area where the skin is torn or worn off
- an indication of damage
verb
- (transitive) To injure or damage by rubbing across a surface.
- (intransitive) To draw back the right foot along the ground or floor when making a bow.
- (transitive) To remove (something) by drawing an object along in this manner.
- To express disapprobation of (a play, etc.) or to silence (a speaker) by drawing the feet back and forth upon the floor; usually with down.
- (intransitive) To occupy oneself with getting laboriously.
- (ambitransitive) To play awkwardly and inharmoniously on a violin or similar instrument.
- (transitive) To barely manage to achieve or attain.
- (computing, transitive) To extract data by automated means from a format not intended to be machine-readable, such as a screenshot or a formatted web page.
- (transitive) To collect or gather, especially without regard to the quality of what is chosen.
- (ambitransitive) To draw (an object, especially a sharp or angular one), along (something) while exerting pressure.
- bruise, cut, or injure the skin or the surface of
- scratch repeatedly
- make by scraping
- gather (money or other resources) together over time
- cut the surface of; wear away the surface of
- bend the knees and bow in a servile manner
noun
- A branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds, used for flight, swimming, protection and display.
- (rail transport) A junction indicator attached to a colour-light signal at an angle, which lights up, typically with four white lights in a row, when a diverging route is set up.
- Kind; nature; species (from the proverbial phrase "birds of a feather").
- The angular adjustment of an oar or paddle-wheel float, with reference to a horizontal axis, as it leaves or enters the water.
- A longitudinal strip projecting from an object to strengthen it, or to enter a channel in another object and thereby prevent displacement sideways or rotationally but permit motion lengthwise.
- One of the fins or wings on the shaft of an arrow.
- Anything petty or trifling; a whit or jot.
- (cricket) A faint edge.
- One of the two shims of the three-piece stone-splitting tool known as plug and feather or plug and feathers; the feathers are placed in a borehole and then a wedge is driven between them, causing the stone to split.
- Long hair on the lower legs of a dog or horse, especially a draft horse, notably the Clydesdale breed. Narrowly only the rear hair.
- (hunting, in the plural) Partridges and pheasants, as opposed to rabbits and hares (called fur).
- turning an oar parallel to the water between pulls
- branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
verb
- To cover or furnish with feathers; (when of an arrow) to fletch.
- To adorn, as if with feathers; to fringe.
- (transitive) To enrich; to exalt; to benefit.
- (transitive) To render light as a feather; to give wings to.
- (transitive) To touch lightly, like (or as if with) a feather.
- To arrange in the manner or appearance of feathers.
- (snooker, billiards) To move the cue back and forth along the bridge in preparation for striking the cue ball.
- (transitive) To tread, as a cockerel.
- (ambitransitive, rowing) To rotate the oars while they are out of the water to reduce wind resistance.
- (intransitive) Of written or printed ink: to take on a blurry appearance as a result of spreading through the receiving medium.
- (carpentry, engineering) To finely shave or bevel an edge.
- (aeronautics) To streamline the blades of an aircraft's propeller by rotating them perpendicular to the axis of the propeller when the engine is shut down so that the propeller does not windmill during flight.
- (transitive) To move softly, like a feather.
- (snooker, billiards) To accidentally touch the cue ball with the tip of the cue when taking aim.
- (computer graphics) To intergrade or blend the pixels of an image with those of a background or neighboring image.
- turn the oar, while rowing
- grow feathers
- turn the paddle; in canoeing
- cover or fit with feathers
- join tongue and groove, in carpentry
noun
- a structure consisting of an area that has been enclosed for some purpose
- a naturally enclosed space
- something (usually a supporting document) that is enclosed in an envelope with a covering letter
- the act of enclosing something inside something else
- (uncountable) The act of enclosing, i.e. the insertion or inclusion of an item in a letter or package.
- (religion) The area of a convent, monastery, etc where access is restricted to community members.
- (countable) An area, domain, or amount of something partially or entirely enclosed by barriers.
- (uncountable, British History) The post-feudal process of subdivision of common lands for individual ownership.
- (countable) Something that is enclosed, i.e. inserted into a letter or similar package.
- (uncountable, by extension) The act of restricting access to ideas, works of art or technologies using patents or intellectual property laws.
- (uncountable) The act of separating and surrounding an area, domain, or amount of something with a barrier.
noun
- A small house or box, often raised to a considerable height above the ground, and having compartments (pigeonholes), in which domestic pigeons breed; a dove house.
- (historical) In medieval Europe, a round or square structure of stone or wood, free-standing or built into a tower, in which pigeons were kept.
- a birdhouse for pigeons
noun
noun
- A structure built by a bird as a place to incubate its eggs and rear its young.
- Any tangle of fibers resembling a typical nest of a bird.
- nest where birds lay their eggs and hatch their young
- Any of several plants having some resemblance to the typical nest of a bird, eg., the wild carrot (Daucus carota).
noun
- A structure built by a bird as a place to incubate eggs and rear young.
- (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.
- A collection of boxes, cases, or the like, of graduated size, each put within the one next larger.
- A compact group of pulleys, gears, springs, etc., working together or collectively.
- A circular bed of pasta, rice, etc. to be topped or filled with other foods.
- (computing) A structure consisting of nested structures, such as nested loops or nested subroutine calls.
- A retreat, or place of habitual resort.
- (military) A fortified position for a weapon.
- (geology) An aggregated mass of any ore or mineral, in an isolated state, within a rock.
- A place used by a monotreme, fish, amphibian or insect, for depositing eggs and hatching young.
- A snug, comfortable, or cosy residence or job situation.
- (vulgar, slang, now US) The pubic hair near a vulva or a vulva itself.
- A home that a child or young adult shares with a parent or guardian.
- A hideout for bad people to frequent or haunt; a den.
- a structure in which animals lay eggs or give birth to their young
- a cosy or secluded retreat
- a kind of gun emplacement
- a gang of people (criminals or spies or terrorists) assembled in one locality
- furniture pieces made to fit close together
verb
- inhabit a nest, usually after building
- gather nests
- (intransitive) To successively neatly fit inside another.
- (intransitive) To settle into a home.
- (intransitive) To hunt for birds' nests or their contents (usually "go nesting").
- (intransitive, of animals) To build or settle into a nest.
- (transitive) To place one thing neatly inside another, and both inside yet another (and so on).
- (transitive) To place in, or as if in, a nest.
- move or arrange oneself in a comfortable and cozy position
- fit together or fit inside
noun
- American warbler; builds a dome-shaped nest on the ground
- small brownish South American birds that build oven-shaped clay nests
- Any bird of the Central and South America family Furnariidae.
- Originally, any of several small European birds that build dome-shaped nests; such as the long-tailed tit, willow warbler and chiffchaff.
- An American warbler, Seiurus aurocapilla, that builds such a nest of vegetation.
noun
- a structure that provides a natural habitation for bees; as in a hollow tree
- a hairdo resembling a beehive
- a man-made receptacle that houses a swarm of bees
- any workplace where people are very busy
- Such a home prepared by the bees themselves, in which some species of honey bees live and raise their young.
- (figuratively) Any place full of activity, or in which people are very busy.
- A type of anti-personnel ammunition round containing flechettes, and characterised by the buzzing sound made as they fly through the air.
- A women's hairstyle, popular in the 1960s, in which long hair is styled into a hive-shaped form on top of the head and usually held in place with lacquer.
- (cellular automata) In Conway's Game of Life, a particular still life pattern with a rounded appearance.
- (cricket) A diagram showing where balls have passed the batter, used in analysis.
- (nonstandard, New Zealand) Alternative form of Beehive.
- A man-made structure in which honey bees are kept so that humans can harvest their honey.
- A particular style of hat.
verb
noun
- a structure that provides a natural habitation for bees; as in a hollow tree
- A structure, whether artificial or natural, for housing a swarm of honeybees.
- a man-made receptacle that houses a swarm of bees
- a teeming multitude
- The bees of one hive; a swarm of bees.
- (computing, Microsoft Windows) A section of the registry.
- An itchy, red, swollen area of the skin; singular or attributive form of hives.
- A place swarming with busy occupants; a crowd.
verb
- move together in a hive or as if in a hive
- store, like bees
- gather into a hive
- (transitive) To collect (bees) into a hive.
- (transitive) To store (something other than bees) in, or as if in, a hive.
- (entomology) Of insects: to enter or possess a hive.
- (intransitive) To form a hive-like entity.
- (intransitive) To take lodging or shelter together; to reside in a collective body.
noun
- a bird that has built (or is building) a nest
- One who nests.
- someone who settles lawfully on government land with the intent to acquire title to it
- One who forms a strong attachment to their home.
- (US, historical) A person who intends to settle in an area without permanent residents; a settler, as distinct from an explorer or pioneer.
noun
noun
- Something resembling such a structure.
- (bodybuilding) The body from the hips over the core to the shoulders.
- (figuratively) An essential part of something that provides support.
- (Roman Catholicism) A portable ornamental column, formerly carried before a cardinal, as emblematic of his support to the church.
- (geology) A vertical, often spire-shaped, natural rock formation.
- The centre of the volta, ring, or manege ground, around which a horse turns.
- (architecture) A large post, often used as supporting architecture.
- anything that approximates the shape of a column or tower
- a vertical cylindrical structure standing alone and not supporting anything (such as a monument)
- a fundamental principle or practice
- a prominent supporter
- (architecture) a tall vertical cylindrical structure standing upright and used to support a structure
verb
noun
verb
- (Scotland and Northern England) To settle, usually a quarrel.
- (transitive, Pennsylvania) To clean, tidy up, to put in order.
- (Scotland and Northern England) To fix boundaries.
- (Scotland and Northern England) To tidy up, clear away.
- simple past and past participle of rede
- (Scotland and Northern England) To comb hair.
- (Scotland and Northern England) To separate combatants.
noun
- An earthen structure constructed by certain ants for the purpose of brood incubation.
- (chiefly US and Canada) A room, rooftop, balcony, or terrace, used for its abundant sunlight, especially when used as a medical treatment.
- (chiefly UK) Synonym of tanning salon, a room or business used for its sunlamps or tanning beds.
- a room enclosed largely with glass and affording exposure to the sun
noun
- A shallow depression used by ground birds as a nest; a nest scrape.
- (heraldry) A diminutive of the bend (especially of the bend sinister) which is half its width.
- A broad, shallow injury left by scraping (rather than a cut or a scratch).
- (British, slang) A D and C or abortion; or, a miscarriage.
- An awkward set of circumstances.
- An intermittent shallow pond in a wetland or floodplain, often artificially created to attract birds.
- (military) A shallow pit dug as a hideout.
- (slang) A fight, especially a fistfight without weapons.
- (UK, slang) A shave.
- The sound or action of something being scraped.
- Something removed by being scraped; a thin layer of something such as butter on bread.
- a harsh noise made by scraping
- a deep bow with the foot drawn backwards (indicating excessive humility)
- an abraded area where the skin is torn or worn off
- an indication of damage
verb
- (transitive) To injure or damage by rubbing across a surface.
- (intransitive) To draw back the right foot along the ground or floor when making a bow.
- (transitive) To remove (something) by drawing an object along in this manner.
- To express disapprobation of (a play, etc.) or to silence (a speaker) by drawing the feet back and forth upon the floor; usually with down.
- (intransitive) To occupy oneself with getting laboriously.
- (ambitransitive) To play awkwardly and inharmoniously on a violin or similar instrument.
- (transitive) To barely manage to achieve or attain.
- (computing, transitive) To extract data by automated means from a format not intended to be machine-readable, such as a screenshot or a formatted web page.
- (transitive) To collect or gather, especially without regard to the quality of what is chosen.
- (ambitransitive) To draw (an object, especially a sharp or angular one), along (something) while exerting pressure.
- bruise, cut, or injure the skin or the surface of
- scratch repeatedly
- make by scraping
- gather (money or other resources) together over time
- cut the surface of; wear away the surface of
- bend the knees and bow in a servile manner
noun
- A branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds, used for flight, swimming, protection and display.
- (rail transport) A junction indicator attached to a colour-light signal at an angle, which lights up, typically with four white lights in a row, when a diverging route is set up.
- Kind; nature; species (from the proverbial phrase "birds of a feather").
- The angular adjustment of an oar or paddle-wheel float, with reference to a horizontal axis, as it leaves or enters the water.
- A longitudinal strip projecting from an object to strengthen it, or to enter a channel in another object and thereby prevent displacement sideways or rotationally but permit motion lengthwise.
- One of the fins or wings on the shaft of an arrow.
- Anything petty or trifling; a whit or jot.
- (cricket) A faint edge.
- One of the two shims of the three-piece stone-splitting tool known as plug and feather or plug and feathers; the feathers are placed in a borehole and then a wedge is driven between them, causing the stone to split.
- Long hair on the lower legs of a dog or horse, especially a draft horse, notably the Clydesdale breed. Narrowly only the rear hair.
- (hunting, in the plural) Partridges and pheasants, as opposed to rabbits and hares (called fur).
- turning an oar parallel to the water between pulls
- branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
verb
- To cover or furnish with feathers; (when of an arrow) to fletch.
- To adorn, as if with feathers; to fringe.
- (transitive) To enrich; to exalt; to benefit.
- (transitive) To render light as a feather; to give wings to.
- (transitive) To touch lightly, like (or as if with) a feather.
- To arrange in the manner or appearance of feathers.
- (snooker, billiards) To move the cue back and forth along the bridge in preparation for striking the cue ball.
- (transitive) To tread, as a cockerel.
- (ambitransitive, rowing) To rotate the oars while they are out of the water to reduce wind resistance.
- (intransitive) Of written or printed ink: to take on a blurry appearance as a result of spreading through the receiving medium.
- (carpentry, engineering) To finely shave or bevel an edge.
- (aeronautics) To streamline the blades of an aircraft's propeller by rotating them perpendicular to the axis of the propeller when the engine is shut down so that the propeller does not windmill during flight.
- (transitive) To move softly, like a feather.
- (snooker, billiards) To accidentally touch the cue ball with the tip of the cue when taking aim.
- (computer graphics) To intergrade or blend the pixels of an image with those of a background or neighboring image.
- turn the oar, while rowing
- grow feathers
- turn the paddle; in canoeing
- cover or fit with feathers
- join tongue and groove, in carpentry
noun
- a structure consisting of an area that has been enclosed for some purpose
- a naturally enclosed space
- something (usually a supporting document) that is enclosed in an envelope with a covering letter
- the act of enclosing something inside something else
- (uncountable) The act of enclosing, i.e. the insertion or inclusion of an item in a letter or package.
- (religion) The area of a convent, monastery, etc where access is restricted to community members.
- (countable) An area, domain, or amount of something partially or entirely enclosed by barriers.
- (uncountable, British History) The post-feudal process of subdivision of common lands for individual ownership.
- (countable) Something that is enclosed, i.e. inserted into a letter or similar package.
- (uncountable, by extension) The act of restricting access to ideas, works of art or technologies using patents or intellectual property laws.
- (uncountable) The act of separating and surrounding an area, domain, or amount of something with a barrier.
noun
- A small house or box, often raised to a considerable height above the ground, and having compartments (pigeonholes), in which domestic pigeons breed; a dove house.
- (historical) In medieval Europe, a round or square structure of stone or wood, free-standing or built into a tower, in which pigeons were kept.
- a birdhouse for pigeons
noun
- A structure built by a bird as a place to incubate eggs and rear young.
- (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.
- A collection of boxes, cases, or the like, of graduated size, each put within the one next larger.
- A compact group of pulleys, gears, springs, etc., working together or collectively.
- A circular bed of pasta, rice, etc. to be topped or filled with other foods.
- (computing) A structure consisting of nested structures, such as nested loops or nested subroutine calls.
- A retreat, or place of habitual resort.
- (military) A fortified position for a weapon.
- (geology) An aggregated mass of any ore or mineral, in an isolated state, within a rock.
- A place used by a monotreme, fish, amphibian or insect, for depositing eggs and hatching young.
- A snug, comfortable, or cosy residence or job situation.
- (vulgar, slang, now US) The pubic hair near a vulva or a vulva itself.
- A home that a child or young adult shares with a parent or guardian.
- A hideout for bad people to frequent or haunt; a den.
- a structure in which animals lay eggs or give birth to their young
- a cosy or secluded retreat
- a kind of gun emplacement
- a gang of people (criminals or spies or terrorists) assembled in one locality
- furniture pieces made to fit close together
verb
- inhabit a nest, usually after building
- gather nests
- (intransitive) To successively neatly fit inside another.
- (intransitive) To settle into a home.
- (intransitive) To hunt for birds' nests or their contents (usually "go nesting").
- (intransitive, of animals) To build or settle into a nest.
- (transitive) To place one thing neatly inside another, and both inside yet another (and so on).
- (transitive) To place in, or as if in, a nest.
- move or arrange oneself in a comfortable and cozy position
- fit together or fit inside