UNNESTとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

unnest (third-person singular simple present unnests, present participle unnesting, simple past and past participle unnested)

1. To dislodge from a nest.

   Synonym: disnest

2. To separate objects that have been nested or placed one inside the other.
   • 1629, Thomas Adams, Sermons:

     The eye unnested from the head, cannot see

   • 1988, Edmund White, chapter 1, in The Beautiful Room is Empty, New York: Vintage International, published 1994:

     She unnested the coffee cans and used the top one as an ashtray.

同意語

• unnestle

参照

• “unnest”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

アナグラム

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