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^[1], 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

• nested class

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