📖 Definitions of "Nested"
verb
- 1
(of animals) To build or settle into a nest.
- 2
To settle into a home.
"We loved the new house and were nesting there in two days!"
- 3
To successively neatly fit inside another.
"I bought a set of nesting mixing bowls for my mother."
- 4
To place in, or as if in, a nest.
adjective
- 1
Embedded.
- 2
Successively fitted one inside another.
- 3
(Of a lexical item) contained within a dictionary entry as a subordinate term of the main headword.
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