misnest

verb

Etymology

From mis- + nest.

  1. inherited from *nisdós — “nest
  2. inherited from *nestą
  3. inherited from *nest
  4. inherited from nest
  5. inherited from nest
  6. prefixed as misnest — “mis + nest

Definitions

  1. To err when nesting one item or set of items within another.

    • dUTIL can assist in the location of certain types of logic errors, primarily those involving misnesting of logical constructs or missing symbols.
    • In this case, the problem is easily solved by the same parentheses that ought to be used to prevent misnesting of arithmetic operations.
    • Are there tags in places where they're not allowed? Have you tried to misnest tags anywhere ?

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for misnest. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA