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📖 Определения и значения для слова nest

📒 a hollow place or structure that a bird makes or chooses for laying its eggs in and sheltering its young

  • sparrows building a nest of twigs and dry grass
  • A rat took the egg while the mother was away from the nest.
  • The female spends all her time on the nest.

📒 a place where insects or other small creatures live and produce their young

  • a wasps’ nest
  • a nest of mice
  • The snake will attack if disturbed inside its nest.

📒 a secret place which is full of bad people and their activities

  • a nest of thieves

📒 the home, thought of as the safe place where parents bring up their children

  • to leave the nest (= leave your parents’ home)

📒 a group or set of similar things that are made to fit inside each other

  • a nest of tables

📒 to make yourself richer, especially at somebody else's expense, by spending money on yourself that should be spent on somebody/something else

📒 to become able to fly and leave its nest

📒 to leave home and live somewhere else

  • Her children have flown the nest.

📒 a difficult situation in which a lot of people get very angry

  • His letter to the papers stirred up a real hornets' nest.

📒 a discovery that seems interesting but is found to have no value

📒 a very complicated situation

  • This area of the law is a veritable mare’s nest.
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