subject

Definitions

1. 1adjective

   Placed or situated under; lying below, or in a lower situation.

2. 2adjective

   Placed under the power of another; specifically (International Law), owing allegiance to a particular sovereign or state; as, Jamaica is subject to Great Britain.

3. 3adjective

   Exposed; liable; prone; disposed; as, a country subject to extreme heat; men subject to temptation.

4. 4adjective

   Obedient; submissive.

5. 5adjective

   That which is placed under the authority, dominion, control, or influence of something else.

6. 6adjective

   Specifically: One who is under the authority of a ruler and is governed by his laws; one who owes allegiance to a sovereign or a sovereign state; as, a subject of Queen Victoria; a British subject; a subject of the United States.

7. 7adjective

   That which is subjected, or submitted to, any physical operation or process; specifically (Anat.), a dead body used for the purpose of dissection.

8. 8adjective

   That which is brought under thought or examination; that which is taken up for discussion, or concerning which anything is said or done.

9. 9adjective

   The person who is treated of; the hero of a piece; the chief character.

10. 10adjective

    That of which anything is affirmed or predicated; the theme of a proposition or discourse; that which is spoken of; as, the nominative case is the subject of the verb.

11. 11adjective

    That in which any quality, attribute, or relation, whether spiritual or material, inheres, or to which any of these appertain; substance; substratum.

12. 12adjective

    Hence, that substance or being which is conscious of its own operations; the mind; the thinking agent or principal; the ego. Cf. Object, n., 2.

13. 13noun

    The principal theme, or leading thought or phrase, on which a composition or a movement is based.

14. 14noun

    The incident, scene, figure, group, etc., which it is the aim of the artist to represent.

15. 15transitive verb

    To bring under control, power, or dominion; to make subject; to subordinate; to subdue.

16. 16transitive verb

    To expose; to make obnoxious or liable; as, credulity subjects a person to impositions.

17. 17transitive verb

    To submit; to make accountable.

18. 18transitive verb

    To make subservient.

19. 19transitive verb

    To cause to undergo; as, to subject a substance to a white heat; to subject a person to a rigid test.

20. 20noun

    something (a person or object or scene) selected by an artist or photographer for graphic representation

    "a moving picture of a train is more dramatic than a still picture of the same subject"

    Synonyms

    content
21. 21noun

    some situation or event that is thought about

    "he kept drifting off the topic"

    "he had been thinking about the subject for several years"

    Synonyms

    issuemattertopic
22. 22noun

    a branch of knowledge

    "in what discipline is his doctorate?"

    "teachers should be well trained in their subject"

    Synonyms

    bailiwickdisciplinefieldstudy
23. 23noun

    (grammar) one of the two main constituents of a sentence; the grammatical constituent about which something is predicated

24. 24noun

    (logic) the first term of a proposition

25. 25noun

    the subject matter of a conversation or discussion

    "he didn't want to discuss that subject"

    "it was a very sensitive topic"

    Synonyms

    themetopic
26. 26noun

    a person who owes allegiance to that nation

    "a monarch has a duty to his subjects"

    Synonyms

    national
27. 27noun

    a person who is subjected to experimental or other observational procedures; someone who is an object of investigation

    "the subjects for this investigation were selected randomly"

    "the cases that we studied were drawn from two different communities"

    Synonyms

    case
28. 28verb

    refer for judgment or consideration

    "The lawyers submitted the material to the court"

    Synonyms

    submit
29. 29verb

    make accountable for

    "He did not want to subject himself to the judgments of his superiors"

30. 30verb

    cause to experience or suffer or make liable or vulnerable to

    "He subjected me to his awful poetry"

    "The sergeant subjected the new recruits to many drills"

31. 31verb

    make subservient; force to submit or subdue

    Synonyms

    subjugate
32. 32adjective

    likely to be affected by something

    "the bond is subject to taxation"

    "he is subject to fits of depression"

33. 33adjective

    being under the power or sovereignty of another or others

    "subject peoples"

    "a dependent prince"

    Synonyms

    dependent
34. 34adjective

    possibly accepting or permitting

    "a passage capable of misinterpretation"

    "open to interpretation"

    Synonyms

    capableopen