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nest
Noun
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The home a bird builds for itself.
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The home or bedding of some other animals.
The mother wolf built a nest in her den before she had her cubs.
nest
Verb
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When an animal builds or stays in its nest, especially when taking care of its babies there.
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If somethings is nested in something else, it is inside it. Usually, this is used for several things, with the second thing in the first thing, the third things in the second thing—for however many things are nested. This is often used in computer programming.
The computer program had nested for loops, that looked like this:
DES
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noun
(= diethylstilbestrol)
a potent estrogen used in medicine and in feed for livestock and poultry
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noun
(= diethylstilbesterol)
synthetic nonsteroid with the properties of estrogen; formerly used to treat menstrual problems but was found to be associated with vaginal cancers in the daughters of women so treated during pregnancy