subsume
verb/səbˈsjuːm/UK/səbˈsuːm/US
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin subsūmere, from sub- + sūmō (“to take”). Compare English consume.
- learned borrowing from subsumō
Definitions
To place (any one cognition) under another as belonging to it
To place (any one cognition) under another as belonging to it; to include or contain something else.
- Near-synonym: comprise
To consider an occurrence as part of a principle or rule.
The neighborhood
- neighborsubsumation
- neighborsubsumption
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for subsume. 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