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 →

2) Other animals make nests too: wasps, ants, mice and squirrels. tree →

3) To nest means to build or live in a nest. tree →

4) Things that nest fit inside each other, like nesting dolls or bowls. tree →

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 →
• There are three blue eggs in the nest. tree →
• Don't poke a wasp nest; the wasps will sting you. tree →
• The baby birds left the nest when they could fly. tree →
• Squirrels make nests called dreys high in the trees. tree →
• We put up a nesting box in the garden. tree →
• Don't disturb birds when they are nesting. tree →
• The little bowls nest inside each other to save space. tree →
• "This is my nest," I said. tree →

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.
• The temperature of the nest decides whether the babies will be male or female.
• Woodpeckers hammer wood up to about 20 times a second to find grubs, dig nests and drum to claim a territory.
• An echidna has no teeth and catches ants and termites with a long sticky tongue after breaking into their nests with strong claws.
• Gorillas and other great apes build a new nest of leaves and branches every night, or of straw in a zoo.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «nest» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.