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).

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.

consider (an instance of something) as part of a general rule or principle

contain or include; "This new system subsumes the old one"