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Submerged vs Subsumed - What's the difference?

submerged | subsumed |

As verbs the difference between submerged and subsumed

is that submerged is past tense of submerge while subsumed is past tense of subsume.

As an adjective submerged

is underwater.

submerged

English

Verb

(head)
  • (submerge)
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • underwater
  • Jimmy was completely submerged when he was snorkeling.
  • below the surface of a liquid
  • hidden
  • poor, impoverished
  • subsumed

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (subsume)

  • subsume

    English

    Verb

    (subsum)
  • To place (any one cognition) under another as belonging to it; to include or contain under something else.
  • * 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;
  • To consider an occurrence as part of a principle or rule; to colligate