nesting
/ˈnɛstɪŋ/ · verb
Meaning
- (of animals) To build or settle into a nest.
- To settle into a home.
- To successively neatly fit inside another.
- To place in, or as if in, a nest.
- To place one thing neatly inside another, and both inside yet another (and so on).
- To hunt for birds' nests or their contents (usually "go nesting").
- The process by which a bird nests.
- The enclosure of one loop, block, etc. of code inside another.
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