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Definition of Subject

1. Noun. The subject matter of a conversation or discussion. "His letters were always on the theme of love"

2. Verb. Cause to experience or suffer or make liable or vulnerable to. "People in Chernobyl were subjected to radiation"

3. Adjective. Possibly accepting or permitting. "The time is fixed by the director and players and therefore subject to much variation"

4. Noun. 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"

5. Verb. Make accountable for. "He did not want to subject himself to the judgments of his superiors"

6. Adjective. Being under the power or sovereignty of another or others. "A dependent prince"

7. Noun. A branch of knowledge. "Anthropology is the study of human beings"

8. Verb. Make subservient; force to submit or subdue.

9. Adjective. Likely to be affected by something. "He is subject to fits of depression"

10. Noun. Some situation or event that is thought about. "It is a matter for the police"

11. Verb. Refer for judgment or consideration. "The lawyers submitted the material to the court"

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

13. Noun. A person who is subjected to experimental or other observational procedures; someone who is an object of investigation. "The cases that we studied were drawn from two different communities"

14. Noun. A person who owes allegiance to that nation. "A monarch has a duty to his subjects"

15. Noun. (logic) the first term of a proposition.

Definition of Subject

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

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

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

Definition of Subject

1. Adjective. likely to be affected by or experience something. ¹

2. Adjective. conditional upon ¹

3. Noun. (grammar) In a clause: the word or word group (usually a noun phrase) that is dealt with. In active clauses with verbs denoting an action, the '''subject''' and the actor are usually the same. ¹

4. Noun. The main topic of a paper, work of art, discussion, etc. ¹

5. Noun. A particular area of study. ¹

6. Noun. A citizen in a monarchy. ¹

7. Noun. A person ruled over by another, especially a monarch or state authority. ¹

8. Verb. (transitive construed with '''to''') To cause (someone or something) to undergo a particular experience, especially one that is unpleasant or unwanted. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Subject

1. to cause to experience [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Subject

subitise subitised subitises subitising subitization subitize subitized subitizes subitizing subito

subito accelerando subjacencies subjacency subjacent subjacently subject (current term) subject(p) subject-clause subject-control subject-matter

subject area subject case subject cases subject clause subject clauses subject complement subject field subject heading subject indexing subject matter

Literary usage of Subject

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Types of Teaching by Lida Belle Earhart (1915)
"Since an understanding of what subject-matter is, and a clear view of the ... Where subject-matter first exists In the first place, subject-matter always ..."

2. The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle by Aristotle, Frank Hesketh Peters (1881)
"We must be content if we can attain to so much Exactness precision in our statement as the subject before us muted by admits of; for the same degree of ..."

3. Principles of Biochemistry for Students of Medicine, Agriculture and Related by Thorburn Brailsford Robertson (1920)
"THE NATURE AND SCOPE OF THE subject. The subject-matter of biochemistry is the application of the known principles of chemistry and physical chemistry to ..."

4. General Sociology: An Exposition of the Main Development in Sociological by Albion Woodbury Small (1905)
"... CHAPTER I THE subject-MATTER OF SOCIOLOGY L The proposition to be developed in this chapter, and then in greater detail throughout the syllabus, ..."

5. General Sociology: An Exposition of the Main Development in Sociological by Albion Woodbury Small (1905)
"... in greater detail throughout the syllabus, is that the subject; . ... that it could have a subject-matter not already preempted by other sciences. ..."

6. Life of Nathanael Greene, Major-general in the Army of the Revolution by George Washington Greene (1871)
"Conway Cabal the subject of Camp Talk. — Greene's Opinion of Washington's Strategy. — Lay and Professional Critics. — Bitter Attacks on Washington. ..."

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