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subsume (third-person singular simple present subsumes, present participle subsuming, simple past and past participle subsumed)

(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;
(transitive) To consider an occurrence as part of a principle or rule.(Can we add an example for this sense?)
Synonym: colligate

to place under another as belonging to it

Catalan: subsumir (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 归入 (zh) (guīrù)
Dutch: onderbrengen (nl), plaatsen in
Finnish: sisällyttää (fi), liittää (fi), subsumoida
French: subsumer (fr), impliquer (fr) (logic)
German: einordnen (de), fassen (de), klassifizieren (de), subsumieren (de), zusammenfassen (de)
Greek: υπάγω (el) (ypágo), εντάσσω (el) (entásso)
Irish: fo-ghlac
Italian: classificare (it), includere (it), contenere (it)
Portuguese: classificar (pt), incluir (pt), subordinar (pt)
Russian: включа́ть в какую-л. категорию (vključátʹ v kakuju-l. kategoriju)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: подво̀дити impf, укључи́вати impf

Roman: podvòditi (sh) impf, uključívati (sh) impf
Spanish: subsumir (es)
Swedish: sammanfatta (sv)
Turkish: içine almak (tr), dâhil etmek (tr), ihtivâ etmek (tr), kapsamak (tr), sınıflandırmak (tr)

to consider an occurrence as part of a principle or rule

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