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Subsume vs Subsumed - What's the difference?

subsume | subsumed |

As verbs the difference between subsume and subsumed

is that subsume is to place (any one cognition) under another as belonging to it; to include or contain under something else while subsumed is past tense of 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
  • 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