When children fly the nest, they leave their parents' home to live on their own. When their children had flown the nest, he and his wife moved to a thatched cottage in Dorset. = leave home
a kind of gun emplacement; "a machine-gun nest"; "a nest of snipers" furniture pieces made to fit close together a gang of people (criminals or spies or terrorists) assembled in one locality; "a nest of thieves" a cosy or secluded retreat a structure in which animals lay eggs or give birth to their young gather nests fit together or fit inside; "nested bowls" inhabit a nest, usually after building; "birds are nesting outside my window every Spring
a hornet's nest: see hornet. Structure built by an animal as a permanent home or for bearing and rearing offspring. The social insects build systems of chambers and tunnels, above or below ground. Fishes' nests vary from shallow depressions in sand to enclosed structures constructed of vegetation. Certain frog species build mud-basin nests or floating masses of hardened froth. Alligators use mud and vegetation and cobras use leaves and forest litter to build a nest for their eggs. The most common type of bird nest is a cup-shaped or domed structure of twigs, leaves, mud, and feathers. Many mammals, especially small ones, build nests in trees, on the ground, or in burrows
With respect to row and column displays, nesting one dimension under another means that all the members of the nested dimension will appear for each member of the nesting dimension Another way to look at it is the nesting dimension represents the primary sort while the nested dimension represents a secondary sort
To place a piece inside a part or all of another piece Examples: To place a card with directions inside an invitation To place a reply card inside the flap of a reply envelope When a multi-page letter needs to be folded together as one, often a mailhouse will z-fold the letters individually and hand put them together Then the entire letter can be inserted as one multi-paged document The process of putting the letters together would be nesting
a place used by another mammal, fish, amphibian or insect, for depositing eggs and hatching young