The difference between Bunch and Nest

When used as nouns, bunch means a group of similar things, either growing together, or in a cluster or clump, usually fastened together, whereas nest means a structure built by a bird as a place to incubate eggs and rear young.

When used as verbs, bunch means to gather into a bunch, whereas nest means to build or settle into a nest.

check bellow for the other definitions of Bunch and Nest

  1. Bunch as a noun:

    A group of similar things, either growing together, or in a cluster or clump, usually fastened together.

    Examples:

    "a bunch of grapes;  a bunch of bananas;  a bunch of keys;  nowrap a bunch of yobs on a street corner"

  2. Bunch as a noun (cycling):

    The peloton; the main group of riders formed during a race.

  3. Bunch as a noun:

    An informal body of friends.

    Examples:

    "He still hangs out with the same bunch."

  4. Bunch as a noun (US, informal):

    A considerable amount.

    Examples:

    "a bunch of trouble"

  5. Bunch as a noun (informal):

    An unmentioned amount; a number.

    Examples:

    "A bunch of them went down to the field."

  6. Bunch as a noun (forestry):

    A group of logs tied together for skidding.

  7. Bunch as a noun (geology, mining):

    An unusual concentration of ore in a lode or a small, discontinuous occurrence or patch of ore in the wallrock.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Page"

  8. Bunch as a noun (textiles):

    The reserve yarn on the filling bobbin to allow continuous weaving between the time of indication from the midget feeler until a new bobbin is put in the shuttle.

  9. Bunch as a noun:

    An unfinished cigar, before the wrapper leaf is added.

    Examples:

    "Two to four filler leaves are laid end to end and rolled into the two halves of the binder leaves, making up what is called the bunch."

  10. Bunch as a noun:

    A protuberance; a hunch; a knob or lump; a hump.

  1. Bunch as a verb (transitive):

    To gather into a bunch.

  2. Bunch as a verb (transitive):

    To gather fabric into folds.

  3. Bunch as a verb (intransitive):

    To form a bunch.

  4. Bunch as a verb (intransitive):

    To be gathered together in folds

  5. Bunch as a verb (intransitive):

    To protrude or swell

  1. Nest as a noun:

    A structure built by a bird as a place to incubate eggs and rear young.

  2. Nest as a noun:

    A place used by another mammal, fish, amphibian or insect, for depositing eggs and hatching young.

  3. Nest as a noun:

    A snug, comfortable, or cozy residence or job situation.

  4. Nest as a noun:

    A retreat, or place of habitual resort.

  5. Nest as a noun:

    A hideout for bad people to frequent or haunt; a den.

    Examples:

    "a nest of thieves"

    "That nightclub is a nest of strange people!"

  6. Nest as a noun:

    A home that a child or young adult shares with a parent or guardian.

    Examples:

    "I am aspiring to leave the nest."

  7. Nest as a noun (cards):

    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.

    Examples:

    "I was forced to change trumps when I found the ace, jack, and nine of diamonds in the nest."

  8. Nest as a noun (military):

    A fortified position for a weapon, e.g. a machine gun nest.

  9. Nest as a noun (computing):

    A structure consisting of nested structures, such as nested loops or nested subroutine calls.

  10. Nest as a noun:

    A circular bed of pasta, rice, etc. to be topped or filled with other foods.

  11. Nest as a noun (geology):

    An aggregated mass of any ore or mineral, in an isolated state, within a rock.

  12. Nest as a noun:

    A collection of boxes, cases, or the like, of graduated size, each put within the one next larger.

  13. Nest as a noun:

    A compact group of pulleys, gears, springs, etc., working together or collectively.

  1. Nest as a verb (intransitive, of animals):

    To build or settle into a nest.

  2. Nest as a verb (intransitive):

    To settle into a home.

    Examples:

    "We loved the new house and were nesting there in two days!"

  3. Nest as a verb (intransitive):

    To successively neatly fit inside another.

    Examples:

    "I bought a set of nesting mixing bowls for my mother."

  4. Nest as a verb (transitive):

    To place in, or as if in, a nest.

  5. Nest as a verb (transitive):

    To place one thing neatly inside another, and both inside yet another (and so on).

    Examples:

    "There would be much more room in the attic if you had nested all the empty boxes."

  6. Nest as a verb (intransitive):

    To hunt for birds' nests or their contents (usually "go nesting").

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