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To place (any one cognition) under another as belonging to it; to include or contain something else.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Examples
- 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;
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: comprise
Antonyms: none provided
To consider an occurrence as part of a principle or rule.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: colligate
Antonyms: none provided
consider (an instance of something) as part of a general rule or principle
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: colligate
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: include
contain or include
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- This new system subsumes the old one
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: include
Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin subsūmere, from sub- + sūmō (“to take”). Compare English consume.
Across languages
Translations
56 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Catalan:
subsumir
— to place under another as belonging to it
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Chinese Mandarin:
歸入 /归入
(guīrù)
— to place under another as belonging to it
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Czech:
začlenit
— to place under another as belonging to it
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Czech:
včlenit
— to place under another as belonging to it
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Czech:
zařadit
— to place under another as belonging to it
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Dutch:
onderbrengen
— to place under another as belonging to it
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Dutch:
plaatsen in
— to place under another as belonging to it
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Finnish:
sisällyttää
— to place under another as belonging to it
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Finnish:
liittää
— to place under another as belonging to it
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Finnish:
subsumoida
— to place under another as belonging to it
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French:
subsumer
— to place under another as belonging to it
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French:
impliquer
— to place under another as belonging to it
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German:
einordnen
— to place under another as belonging to it
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German:
fassen
— to place under another as belonging to it
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German:
klassifizieren
— to place under another as belonging to it
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German:
subsumieren
— to place under another as belonging to it
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German:
zusammenfassen
— to place under another as belonging to it
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Greek:
υπάγω
(ypágo)
— to place under another as belonging to it
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Greek:
εντάσσω
(entásso)
— to place under another as belonging to it
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Irish:
fo-ghlac
— to place under another as belonging to it
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Italian:
classificare
— to place under another as belonging to it
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Italian:
includere
— to place under another as belonging to it
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Italian:
contenere
— to place under another as belonging to it
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Polish:
włączać
— to place under another as belonging to it
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Polish:
włączyć
— to place under another as belonging to it
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Polish:
ujmować
— to place under another as belonging to it
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Polish:
ująć
— to place under another as belonging to it
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Portuguese:
classificar
— to place under another as belonging to it
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Portuguese:
incluir
— to place under another as belonging to it
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Portuguese:
subordinar
— to place under another as belonging to it
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Russian:
включа́ть в какую-л. категорию
(vključátʹ v kakuju-l. kategoriju)
— to place under another as belonging to it
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Serbo-Croatian:
подво̀дити
— to place under another as belonging to it
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Serbo-Croatian:
укључи́вати
— to place under another as belonging to it
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Serbo-Croatian:
podvòditi
— to place under another as belonging to it
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Serbo-Croatian:
uključívati
— to place under another as belonging to it
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Spanish:
subsumir
— to place under another as belonging to it
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Swedish:
sammanfatta
— to place under another as belonging to it
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Turkish:
içine almak
— to place under another as belonging to it
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Turkish:
dâhil etmek
— to place under another as belonging to it
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Turkish:
ihtivâ etmek
— to place under another as belonging to it
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Turkish:
kapsamak
— to place under another as belonging to it
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Turkish:
sınıflandırmak
— to place under another as belonging to it
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Bulgarian:
отнасям към
(otnasjam kǎm)
— to consider an occurrence as part of a principle or rule
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Dutch:
veralgemenen
— to consider an occurrence as part of a principle or rule
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Dutch:
verenigen
— to consider an occurrence as part of a principle or rule
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Finnish:
liittää
— to consider an occurrence as part of a principle or rule
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Finnish:
subsumoida
— to consider an occurrence as part of a principle or rule
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French:
généraliser
— to consider an occurrence as part of a principle or rule
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French:
rejoindre
— to consider an occurrence as part of a principle or rule
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French:
colliger
— to consider an occurrence as part of a principle or rule
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German:
verbinden
— to consider an occurrence as part of a principle or rule
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German:
vereinigen
— to consider an occurrence as part of a principle or rule
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Polish:
generalizować
— to consider an occurrence as part of a principle or rule
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Polish:
uogólniać
— to consider an occurrence as part of a principle or rule
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Polish:
uogólnić
— to consider an occurrence as part of a principle or rule
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Spanish:
subsumir
— to consider an occurrence as part of a principle or rule
