nesting

Meaning of nesting

verb
  1. (of animals) To build or settle into a nest.
  2. To settle into a home.
    We loved the new house and were nesting there in two days!
  3. To successively neatly fit inside another.
    I bought a set of nesting mixing bowls for my mother.
  4. To place in, or as if in, a nest.
  5. To place one thing neatly inside another, and both inside yet another (and so on).
    There would be much more room in the attic if you had nested all the empty boxes.
  6. To hunt for birds' nests or their contents (usually "go nesting").
noun
  1. The process by which a bird nests.
  2. The enclosure of one loop, block, etc. of code inside another.

Information about nesting

  • The plural form of nesting is: nestings.
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Hyphenation of nesting

nest-ing

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
  • nesting is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

Translation of nesting

Anagrams of nesting

senting, tensing

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