Nest vs. Canary

Nestnoun

A structure built by a bird as a place to incubate eggs and rear young.

Nestnoun

A place used by another mammal, fish, amphibian or insect, for depositing eggs and hatching young.

Nestnoun

A snug, comfortable, or cosy residence or job situation.

Nestnoun

A retreat, or place of habitual resort.

Nestnoun

A hideout for bad people to frequent or haunt; a den.

Nestnoun

A home that a child or young adult shares with a parent or guardian.

Nestnoun

(cards) 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.

Nestnoun

(military) A fortified position for a weapon.

Nestnoun

(computing) A structure consisting of nested structures, such as nested loops or nested subroutine calls.

Nestnoun

A circular bed of pasta, rice, etc. to be topped or filled with other foods.

Nestnoun

(geology) An aggregated mass of any ore or mineral, in an isolated state, within a rock.

Nestnoun

A collection of boxes, cases, or the like, of graduated size, each put within the one next larger.

Nestnoun

A compact group of pulleys, gears, springs, etc., working together or collectively.

Nestverb

To build or settle into a nest.

Nestverb

(intransitive) To settle into a home.

Nestverb

(intransitive) To successively neatly fit inside another.

Nestverb

(transitive) To place in, or as if in, a nest.

Nestverb

(transitive) To place one thing neatly inside another, and both inside yet another (and so on).

Nestverb

(intransitive) To hunt for birds' nests or their contents (usually "go nesting").

Nestnoun

The bed or receptacle prepared by a fowl for holding her eggs and for hatching and rearing her young.

Nestnoun

The place in which the eggs of other animals, as insects, turtles, etc., are laid and hatched; a snug place in which young animals are reared.

Nestnoun

A snug, comfortable, or cozy residence or situation; a retreat, or place of habitual resort; hence, those who occupy a nest, frequent a haunt, or are associated in the same pursuit; as, a nest of traitors; a nest of bugs.

Nestnoun

An aggregated mass of any ore or mineral, in an isolated state, within a rock.

Nestnoun

A collection of boxes, cases, or the like, of graduated size, each put within the one next larger.

Nestnoun

A compact group of pulleys, gears, springs, etc., working together or collectively.

Nestverb

To build and occupy a nest.

Nestverb

To put into a nest; to form a nest for.

Nestnoun

a structure in which animals lay eggs or give birth to their young

Nestnoun

a kind of gun emplacement;

Nestnoun

a cosy or secluded retreat

Nestnoun

a gang of people (criminals or spies or terrorists) assembled in one locality;

Nestnoun

furniture pieces made to fit close together

Nestverb

inhabit a nest, usually after building;

Nestverb

fit together or fit inside;

Nestverb

move or arrange oneself in a comfortable and cozy position;

Nestverb

gather nests

Nest

A nest is a structure built for certain animals to hold eggs, offspring, and, oftentimes, the animal itself. Although nests are most closely associated with birds, members of all classes of vertebrates and some invertebrates construct nests.

Canarynoun

A small, usually yellow, finch (genus Serinus), a songbird native to the Canary Islands.

Canarynoun

Any of various small birds of different countries, most of which are largely yellow in colour.

Canarynoun

A light, slightly greenish, yellow colour.

Canarynoun

A light, sweet, white wine from the Canary Islands.

Canarynoun

A lively dance, possibly of Spanish origin (also called canaries).

Canarynoun

Any test subject, especially an inadvertent or unwilling one. (From the mining practice of using canaries to detect dangerous gases.)

Canarynoun

(computing) A value placed in memory such that it will be the first data corrupted by a buffer overflow, allowing the program to identify and recover from it.

Canarynoun

(informal) A female singer, soprano, a coloratura singer.

Canarynoun

(slang) An informer or snitch; a squealer.

Canarynoun

(slang) A (usually yellow) capsule of the short-acting barbiturate pentobarbital/pentobarbitone (Nembutal).

Canarynoun

A yellow sticker of unroadworthiness.

Canaryadjective

Of a light yellow colour.

Canaryverb

(intransitive) to dance nimbly (as in the canary dance)

Canaryverb

(slang) to inform or snitch, to betray secrets, especially about illegal activities.

Canaryadjective

Of or pertaining to the Canary Islands; as, canary wine; canary birds.

Canaryadjective

Of a pale yellowish color; as, Canary stone.

Canarynoun

Wine made in the Canary Islands; sack.

Canarynoun

A canary bird.

Canarynoun

A pale yellow color, like that of a canary bird.

Canarynoun

A quick and lively dance.

Canaryverb

To perform the canary dance; to move nimbly; to caper.

Canarynoun

someone acting as an informer or decoy for the police

Canarynoun

a female singer

Canarynoun

a moderate yellow with a greenish tinge

Canarynoun

any of several small Old World finches

Canaryadjective

having the color of a canary; a light to moderate yellow