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How to pronounce “nest”

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Pronunciation guide for nest

Learning goal: Practice the English pronunciation of nest with real speech in context.
Available examples: 8 YouTube examples
Real speech example: Deborah Gordon: The emergent genius of ant colonies 20 minutesThis is the nest of the mature colony, and there's the nest entrance.
Definition summary: A structure built by a bird as a place to incubate eggs and rear young.

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Deborah Gordon: The emergent genius of ant colonies 20 minutes

This is the nest of the mature colony, and there's the nest entrance.

[Noun]
A structure built by a bird as a place to incubate eggs and rear young.
A place used by a monotreme, fish, amphibian or insect, for depositing eggs and hatching young.
A snug, comfortable, or cosy residence or job situation.
A retreat, or place of habitual resort.
A hideout for bad people to frequent or haunt; a den.
A home that a child or young adult shares with a parent or guardian.
(card games) 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.
(military) A fortified position for a weapon.
(computing) A structure consisting of nested structures, such as nested loops or nested subroutine calls.
A circular bed of pasta, rice, etc. to be topped or filled with other foods.
(geology) An aggregated mass of any ore or mineral, in an isolated state, within a rock.
A collection of boxes, cases, or the like, of graduated size, each put within the one next larger.
A compact group of pulleys, gears, springs, etc., working together or collectively.
(vulgar, slang, now US) The pubic hair near a vulva or a vulva itself.
[Verb]
(intransitive, of animals) To build or settle into a nest.
(intransitive) To settle into a home.
(intransitive) To successively neatly fit inside another.
(transitive) To place in, or as if in, a nest.
(transitive) To place one thing neatly inside another, and both inside yet another (and so on).
(intransitive) To hunt for birds' nests or their contents (usually "go nesting").