Nested vs. Hierarchy — What's the Difference?

Nested is the seventh studio album by Bronx-born singer, songwriter and pianist Laura Nyro, released in 1978 on Columbia Records. Following on from her extensive tour to promote 1976's Smile, which resulted in the 1977 live album Season of Lights, Nyro retreated to her new home in Danbury, Connecticut, where she lived after spending her time in the spotlight in New York City.

A hierarchy (from Greek: ἱεραρχία, hierarkhia, 'rule of a high priest', from hierarkhes, 'president of sacred rites') is an arrangement of items (objects, names, values, categories, etc.) that are represented as being "above", "below", or "at the same level as" one another. Hierarchy is an important concept in a wide variety of fields, such as philosophy, architecture, design, mathematics, computer science, organizational theory, systems theory, systematic biology, and the social sciences (especially political philosophy).

A structure or shelter made or used by a bird to hold its eggs during incubation and to house its young until fledged.

A group of persons or things organized into successive ranks or grades with each level subordinate to the one above

A structure or shelter in which other animals, such as reptiles, fish, or insects, deposit their eggs or tend their young.

Categorization or arrangement of a group of people or things into such ranks or grades

A structure or complex built by ants, termites, or other social animals to house a colony.

A body of persons having authority

A number of insects, birds, or other animals occupying a nest

A group of animals in which certain members or subgroups dominate or submit to others.

A place affording snug refuge or lodging; a home.

One of three main divisions of angels in traditional Christian angelology.

A place or environment that fosters rapid growth or development, especially of something undesirable; a hotbed

A body of authoritative officials organized in nested ranks.

Those who occupy or frequent such a place or environment.

A social, religious, economic or political system or organization in which people or groups of people are ranked with some superior to others based on their status, authority or some other trait.

A set of objects of graduated size that can be stacked together, each fitting within the one immediately larger

Any group of objects ranked so that every one but the topmost is subordinate to a specified one above it.

A cluster of similar things.

Dominion or authority in sacred things.

A group of weapons in a prepared position

A body of officials disposed organically in ranks and orders each subordinate to the one above it; a body of ecclesiastical rulers.

To build or occupy a nest.

A form of government administered in the church by patriarchs, metropolitans, archbishops, bishops, and, in an inferior degree, by priests.

To create and settle into a warm and secure refuge.

A rank or order of holy beings.

To hunt for birds' nests, especially in order to collect the eggs.

Any group of objects ranked so that every one but the topmost is subordinate to a specified one above it; also, the entire set of ordering relations between such objects. The ordering relation between each object and the one above is called a hierarchical relation.

To fit one inside another.

A series of ordered groupings of people or things within a system;

To place in or as if in a nest.

The organization of people at different ranks in an administrative body

To put snugly together or inside one another

Simple past tense and past participle of nest

Embedded.

Successively fitted one inside another.

(lexicography) (Of a lexical item) contained within a dictionary entry as a subordinate term of the main headword.