(a.) A wadded covering for a teakettle or other vessel to keep the contents hot.
Example Sentences:
(1) But since Snowden leaked secrets on western government spy operations in 2013, Silicon Valley’s leaders have been cautious of seeming too cozy with Washington’s three-letter agencies, which also include the FBI and the CIA.
(2) Outside the forum’s cozy bubble, Vladimir Putin’s hand is everywhere.
(3) However, since Edward Snowden leaked western government secrets to the Guardian and other outlets in 2013, Silicon Valley has become increasingly cautious about seeming too cozy with Washington’s three-letter agencies.
(4) Birnbaum and her agency came under withering criticism from lawmakers of both parties over lax oversight of drilling and cozy ties with industry.
(5) Like his rival, Bush could be vulnerable to accusations of elitism and a cozy relationship with Wall Street .
(6) Valley News reported that Salinger's former home, now "filled with little cushions, crystal china and fabrics in warm pinks and oranges, reflects three decades of use by the Littlefields, but still conjures impressions of a cozy writer's den".
(7) Analysts and the US government suspect an official hand behind the breach of the DNC’s emails – and there is a developing theory that a Russian hacker named Fancy Bear and another hacking team believed to be tied to a competing Russian intelligence service, known as Cozy Bear, were working in concert.
(8) Cozy Bear has dug into the state department the joint chiefs , and the White House , said CrowdStrike, which analyzed those hacks.
(9) The faux-outrage from the right about the AWU cozying up to employers is something to behold, given that conservatives have long insisted the Labor party distance itself from precisely those unions that win the best outcomes for their members.
(10) Gidwani says she’s heard very little from Cozy Bear as her firm tracks malware and phishing attacks.
(11) It shows him to be opposed to all innovation in the Church and above all, during the dictatorship, it shows he was very cozy with the military," Fortunato Mallimacci, the former dean of social sciences at the Universidad de Buenos Aires, once said.
(12) Saturday afternoon at Jill’s Place, a cozy bistro in wealthy Santa Barbara, might have marked the first time in a long time that Hillary Clinton looked genuinely happy on the campaign trail.
(13) The leaks, in particular, have helped bring about an astonishing reversal in the administration’s handling of Russia – from treating Putin as cozy partner to world menace.
(14) The Washington press corps was dilatory in its investigative reporting – valuing access and cozy relationships with senior officials above the search for truth; ultimately, the media served as lapdogs rather than watchdogs.
(15) In an appearance on Charlie Rose's television show, Geithner responded to the charges that he is too cozy with Wall Street by saying, "You know, I'm deeply offended by that," Geithner said.
(16) The journalists' silence was unfortunate but, sad to say, a reflection of most media companies' coziness with the rich and powerful in America and around the world.
(17) The species differs from E. cozi, which is the only other species of the genus, by having a sligtly larger size and a very little pronounced cephalic constriction.
(18) Joe Conason, who covered Murdoch at the Village Voice throughout much of the 70s and 80s, called Cohn “the lynchpin” of Murdoch’s cozy relationship with Reagan.
(19) In the UK, the prime minister, Theresa May, has come under fierce criticism for cozying up to Trump, including holding his hand at the White House and inviting him to a state visit to the UK, while showing reluctance to criticize his immigration stance.
(20) Tessa Jowell and Jon Cruddas were also about, but this was the year the new Tories – Michael Gove , Rory Stewart and David Willetts – arrived to cozy up to the liberal establishment before slashing the arts budget.
Nest
Definition:
(n.) The bed or receptacle prepared by a fowl for holding her eggs and for hatching and rearing her young.
(n.) Hence: the place in which the eggs of other animals, as insects, turtles, etc., are laid and hatched; a snug place in which young animals are reared.
(n.) A snug, comfortable, or cozy residence or situation; a retreat, or place of habitual resort; hence, those who occupy a nest, frequent a haunt, or are associated in the same pursuit; as, a nest of traitors; a nest of bugs.
(n.) An aggregated mass of any ore or mineral, in an isolated state, within a rock.
(n.) A collection of boxes, cases, or the like, of graduated size, each put within the one next larger.
(n.) A compact group of pulleys, gears, springs, etc., working together or collectively.
(v. i.) To build and occupy a nest.
(v. t.) To put into a nest; to form a nest for.
Example Sentences:
(1) Unlike most birds of prey, which are territorial and fight each other over nesting and hunting grounds, the hen harrier nests close to other harriers.
(2) Although selenium deficiency in livestock is consequently now rare in Oregon, selenium-deficient soils and attendant selenium deficiency conditions have been reported near the Kesterson Wildlife Refuge in the Northern part of the San Joaquin Valley, California, where, paradoxically, selenium toxicity in wildfowl, nesting near evaporation ponds, occurred and attracted wide attention.
(3) The nested gene is oriented in a direction opposite to that of factor VIII and contains no intervening sequences.
(4) The experiment had a 2 x 2 factorial arrangement of treatments with two nest holding times and two storage methods.
(5) Hens of the same breed and age reared together on deep litter showed no differences in nest site selection and nesting behaviour regardless of whether they had previously been housed in a deep litter house or in cages.
(6) Specific kinds of maternal behaviour such as nesting, retrieving, grooming and exploring, are seen in non-human mammalian mothers immediately before, during and after delivery.
(7) We conclude that both proprioceptive feedback and audio-feedback must be involved to yield maximal stimulation of follicular growth by the female's nest-coo display.
(8) Prolactin secretion was stimulated less in incubating hens deprived of their nests for 24 h (nest-deprived) than in laying hens after administration of the 5-HT receptor agonist quipazine, or precursor 5-hydroxytryptophan.
(9) Four mechanisms for the formation of ectopic meningioma have been suggested: (a) direct extension of an intracranial lesion; (b) distant metastasis from an intracranial meningioma; (c) origin from arachnoid cells within the sheaths of cranial nerves; and (d) origin from embryonic nests of arachnoid cells.
(10) After the relatively abrupt start of intensive nest-building, the seasonal course of a pair's behavior becomes more regular, an indication that this transition in the female's state is critical in pacing the pair's breeding activities.
(11) These centers will collaborate in a nested-case control study based on the pooled cases and a sample of the non-diseased respondents.
(12) Spencer has now heard that Andy, who got the boat remember, has been cracking on to Louise, even though Jamie warned him it would be like jumping into a polar bear's nest.
(13) Hens from both strains performed vacuum nest-building behaviour before laying.
(14) These are collected in her pollen baskets which she takes back to the nest to feed the young after fertilising the flowers.
(15) The marked differences in the lipolytic activities of adipose tissue emphasize the distinct influence of the post-natal nutrition on metabolic functions in the later life and lead to the conclusion that the metabolism of adipose tissue of animals from small nests is directed towards a long-term increased storage of lipids.
(16) The most consistently sensational evidence from Icac has been around former Labor member Eddie Obeid and the influence he wielded in the NSW Labor government to feather his own nest.
(17) After 48 h of nest deprivation, the hens resumed nesting within 5 min of being returned to the pen although the plasma levels of Prl were low.
(18) Although distortion by competing risks is well-recognized in follow-up studies, the problem has not been as widely appreciated in nested case-control studies.
(19) We test first for confounded effects by examining socioeconomic effects while excluding and then including reproductive variables in nested multivariate models.
(20) The bird's nest inferior vena cava filter, in clinical trial since 1982, has been placed in 568 patients at risk for pulmonary embolism.