Subordinate vs Supercede - What's the difference?
subordinate | supercede |
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.
* 1491 , Acta Dom. Conc. :
* 1857 , The American Law Register — On the Doctrine of Uses as an Element of our Law of Conveyances , Vol. 6, ? 2/3:
* 2000 , Juliet Floyd & Hilary Putnam, The Journal of Philosophy — A Note on Wittgenstein’s “Notorious Paragraph” about the Godel Theorem , Vol. 97, ? 11:
* 2002 , Amy Kapczynski, The Yale Law Journal — Queer Brinksmanship: Citizenship and the Solomon Wars , Vol. 112, ? 3:
As verbs the difference between subordinate and supercede
is that subordinate is to make subservient while supercede is .As an adjective subordinate
is placed in a lower class, rank, or position.As a noun subordinate
is (senseid)(countable) one who is subordinate.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”.
Synonyms
* lesser * (sense) dependentAntonyms
* superior, superordinate * (Submissive to or controlled by authority) insubordinate * (sense) independent, mainSee also
* inferiorSynonyms
* (one who is subordinate) inferior, junior, report, underling, understrapperAntonyms
* (one who is subordinate) boss, commander, leader, manager, superior, supervisorVerb
(subordinat)Synonyms
* (treat as of less value or importance) belittle, denigratesupercede
English
Verb
- He sall supercede þe payment of þe said vc frankis.
- To it a new species of conveyancing owes its origin, which dispenses with livery of seisin, and almost entirely supercedes , in practice, the employment of common law deeds.
- They saw themselves as providing a freestanding “ideal language” or “concept-language,” what W. V. Quine has called a first-grade conceptual scheme, which in some sense supercedes ordinary language.
- The DoD may contend that the consolidated Solomon Amendment, passed in 1999, National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2000 § 549, supercedes the regulations.
Usage notes
* The form (term) is commonly considered a misspelling of supersede, since it results from confusion between Latin , but the ‘c’ spelling began to be used in Middle French, appeared in [[w:English language, English] as early as the 1400s, and is still sometimes found. The fact that supersede is the only English word ending in (term), while several end in (term), also encourages confusion. * Most dictionaries do not include this spelling; a few list it as a variant, sometimes identified as a misspelling.“supercede]” in the Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary .A search of general dictionaries at [http://www.onelook.com/ Onelook All Dictionaries finds 4 instances of "supercede" excluding this one (with one flagged as misspelling), and 24 of "supersede".