Dictionary

subsume en · VERB

Pronunciation

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• /səbˈsjuːm/ (UK)
• /səbˈsuːm/ (US)

Etymology

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

Meanings

1. (transitive) To place (any one cognition) under another as belonging to it; to include or contain something else.
   • Near-synonym: comprise
   • March 14, 2018, Roger Penrose writing in The Guardian, Mind over matter': Stephen Hawking – obituary A few years later (in a paper published by the Royal Society in 1970, by which time Hawking had become a fellow “for distinction in science” of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge), he and I joined forces to publish an even more powerful theorem which subsumed almost all the work in this area that had gone before.
   • 1961: J. A. Philip. Mimesis in the Sophistês of Plato. In: Proceedings and Transactions of the American Philological Association 92. p. 453--468. no allusion is made to forms because Plato is subsuming under the class of productive crafts both divine and human imitation;
2. (transitive) To consider an occurrence as part of a principle or rule.

Forms

Deriveds

subsumability · subsumable

Relateds

subsumption · subsumation

Synonyms

comprise · colligate

Translations (56)

sv sammanfatta (to place under another as belonging to it) · sh подво̀дити (to place under another as belonging to it) · el υπάγω (to place under another as belonging to it) · fr généraliser (to consider an occurrence as part of a principle or rule) · de klassifizieren (to place under another as belonging to it) · cmn 歸入 /归入 (to place under another as belonging to it) · pt classificar (to place under another as belonging to it) · it includere (to place under another as belonging to it) · el εντάσσω (to place under another as belonging to it) · nl onderbrengen (to place under another as belonging to it) · nl veralgemenen (to consider an occurrence as part of a principle or rule) · tr dâhil etmek (to place under another as belonging to it) · pt incluir (to place under another as belonging to it) · nl plaatsen in (to place under another as belonging to it) · de verbinden (to consider an occurrence as part of a principle or rule) · cs začlenit (to place under another as belonging to it) · pl włączyć (to place under another as belonging to it) · fr impliquer (to place under another as belonging to it) · fr subsumer (to place under another as belonging to it) · ca subsumir (to place under another as belonging to it) · pt subordinar (to place under another as belonging to it) · pl ujmować (to place under another as belonging to it) · fi liittää (to place under another as belonging to it) · de zusammenfassen (to place under another as belonging to it) · sh podvòditi (to place under another as belonging to it) · fi liittää (to consider an occurrence as part of a principle or rule) · sh укључи́вати (to place under another as belonging to it) · es subsumir (to consider an occurrence as part of a principle or rule) · nl verenigen (to consider an occurrence as part of a principle or rule) · cs zařadit (to place under another as belonging to it) · de fassen (to place under another as belonging to it) · pl generalizować (to consider an occurrence as part of a principle or rule) · de vereinigen (to consider an occurrence as part of a principle or rule) · tr kapsamak (to place under another as belonging to it) · pl uogólniać (to consider an occurrence as part of a principle or rule) · de einordnen (to place under another as belonging to it) · tr sınıflandırmak (to place under another as belonging to it) · fi sisällyttää (to place under another as belonging to it) · pl włączać (to place under another as belonging to it) · fi subsumoida (to consider an occurrence as part of a principle or rule) · de subsumieren (to place under another as belonging to it) · bg отнасям към (to consider an occurrence as part of a principle or rule) · ru включа́ть в какую-л. категорию (to place under another as belonging to it) · tr içine almak (to place under another as belonging to it) · tr ihtivâ etmek (to place under another as belonging to it) · it contenere (to place under another as belonging to it) · fr rejoindre (to consider an occurrence as part of a principle or rule) · sh uključívati (to place under another as belonging to it) · pl ująć (to place under another as belonging to it) · es subsumir (to place under another as belonging to it) · it classificare (to place under another as belonging to it) · pl uogólnić (to consider an occurrence as part of a principle or rule) · ga fo-ghlac (to place under another as belonging to it) · fr colliger (to consider an occurrence as part of a principle or rule) · cs včlenit (to place under another as belonging to it) · fi subsumoida (to place under another as belonging to it)