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 sub·sume /səbˈsum/
 (v.)包容;包含;包括

 Sub·sume v. t.  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 under something else.
    To subsume one proposition under another.   --De Quincey.
    A principle under which one might subsume men's most strenuous efforts after righteousness.   --W. Pater.
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 subsume
      v 1: contain or include; "This new system subsumes the old one"
      2: consider (an instance of something) as part of a general
         rule or principle [syn: colligate]