nested

English

Verb

nested

1. simple past and past participle of nest

Adjective

nested (not comparable)

1. Embedded.
2. Successively fitted one inside another.
3. (lexicography) (Of a lexical item) contained within a dictionary entry as a subordinate term of the main headword.
   • 2012, James Lambert, “Beyond Hobson-Jobson: A new lexicography for Indian English”, in World Englishes‎, page 297:

     The "Terms" number is the total number of words and lexical phrases, including sub-headwords and other nested lexical items, but exclusive of variants.

Derived terms

• heminested
• misnested
• nested class
• nestedness
• nonnested
• seminested
• unnested

Translations

embedded — see embedded

successively fitted one inside another

Catalan: imbricat (ca) Finnish: kerrosteinen French: imbriqué (fr) German: verschachtelt (de) Greek: ένθετος (el) (énthetos), εμφωλευμένος (emfolevménos) Hebrew: מקונן \ מְקֻנָּן (m'kunán) Russian: вложенный (ru) (vložennyj) Serbo-Croatian: ugniježden Spanish: anidado (es)

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Translations to be checked

Czech: vnořený French: imbriqué (fr)

Anagrams

• Dentes, Stende, denets, dentes, endest, need'st, needst, sedent, teends, tensed