subsume

verb
/səbˈsjuːm/UK/səbˈsuːm/US

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin subsūmere, from sub- + sūmō (“to take”). Compare English consume.

  1. learned borrowing from subsumō

Definitions

  1. 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
  2. To consider an occurrence as part of a principle or rule.

The neighborhood

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