Ascribe vs Subordinate - What's the difference?
ascribe | subordinate |
To attribute a cause or characteristic to someone or something.
To attribute a book, painting or any work of art or literature to a writer or creator.
Placed in a lower class, rank, or position.
* Woodward
Submissive or inferior to, or controlled by, authority.
* South
(grammar, of a clause, not comparable) dependent on and either modifying or complementing the main clause
To make subservient.
To treat as of less value or importance.
(finance) To make of lower priority in order of payment in bankruptcy.
In transitive terms the difference between ascribe and subordinate
is that ascribe is to attribute a book, painting or any work of art or literature to a writer or creator while subordinate is to treat as of less value or importance.As an adjective subordinate is
placed in a lower class, rank, or position.As a noun subordinate is
(one who is subordinate) One who is subordinate.ascribe
English
Verb
(ascrib)- One may ascribe these problems to the federal government; however, at this stage it is unclear what caused them.
- It is arguable as to whether we can truly ascribe this play to Shakespeare.
Synonyms
* attribute * imputeDerived terms
* ascribableAnagrams
* ----subordinate
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The several kinds and subordinate species of each are easily distinguished.
- It was subordinate , not enslaved, to the understanding.
- In the sentence, “The barbecue finished before John arrived”, the subordinate clause “before John arrived” specifies the time of the main clause, “The barbecue finished”.