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Examples of subsume
subsume
Why, exactly, should Taiwan subsume its coolness to China's cultural bludgeon?
From the time.com
It was tricky, but we managed to subsume them into our sartorial vernacular.
From the independent.co.uk
Do not engage in appeasement, do not subsume yourself into you mother's whipping girl.
From the guardian.co.uk
That report recommended that the NSC subsume the Homeland Security Council.
From the infowars.com
Lots of people subsume themselves in a relationship, only to wake up one day screaming.
From the guardian.co.uk
Her fans laud her for refusing to subsume her identity to her husband's political ambitions.
From the time.com
For example, the Arts subsume music and any other competent action.
From the en.wikipedia.org
The ferocious hurricane is also expected to subsume tropical depression Alpha by this time.
From the newscientist.com
What America rightly resisted in the autumn of 2001 is threatening to subsume the autumn of 2010.
From the newsweek.com
- Contain or include; "This new system subsumes the old one"
- Consider (an instance of something) as part of a general rule or principle
- To take up into or under, as individual under species, species under genus, or particular under universal; to place (any one cognition) under another as belonging to it; to include or contain under something else; To consider an occurrence as part of a principle or rule; to colligate
- (subsumes(+General, +Specific)) is true when Specific is an instance of General. It will bind variables in General (but not those in Specific) so that General becomes identical to Specific.
- The incorporation of an idea, concept, or skill in a more complex framework (e.g. using parts of speech to learn the structure of sentences and to master sentence fluency).
- Verb - 1. to include within a larger class, group, order, etc. 2. to show (an idea, instance, etc.) to be covered by a rule, principle, etc.
- Include under a rule
