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Subject   /səbdʒˈɛkt/  /sˈəbdʒɪkt/   Listen
Subject

noun
1.
The subject matter of a conversation or discussion.  Synonyms: theme, topic.  "It was a very sensitive topic" , "His letters were always on the theme of love"
2.
Something (a person or object or scene) selected by an artist or photographer for graphic representation.  Synonyms: content, depicted object.
3.
A branch of knowledge.  Synonyms: bailiwick, discipline, field, field of study, study, subject area, subject field.  "Teachers should be well trained in their subject" , "Anthropology is the study of human beings"
4.
Some situation or event that is thought about.  Synonyms: issue, matter, topic.  "He had been thinking about the subject for several years" , "It is a matter for the police"
5.
(grammar) one of the two main constituents of a sentence; the grammatical constituent about which something is predicated.
6.
A person who is subjected to experimental or other observational procedures; someone who is an object of investigation.  Synonyms: case, guinea pig.  "The cases that we studied were drawn from two different communities"
7.
A person who owes allegiance to that nation.  Synonym: national.
8.
(logic) the first term of a proposition.
verb
(past & past part. subjected; pres. part. subjecting)
1.
Cause to experience or suffer or make liable or vulnerable to.  "The sergeant subjected the new recruits to many drills" , "People in Chernobyl were subjected to radiation"
2.
Make accountable for.
3.
Make subservient; force to submit or subdue.  Synonym: subjugate.
4.
Refer for judgment or consideration.  Synonym: submit.
adjective
1.
Possibly accepting or permitting.  Synonyms: capable, open.  "Open to interpretation" , "An issue open to question" , "The time is fixed by the director and players and therefore subject to much variation"
2.
Being under the power or sovereignty of another or others.  Synonym: dependent.  "A dependent prince"
3.
Likely to be affected by something.  "He is subject to fits of depression"



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"Subject" Quotes from Famous Books



... simply give us the "rules of the road," and these rules contribute greatly to our convenience and safety. Such rules are the result of the common sense of man working upon his everyday problems. To violate one of these practical rules is to be a blunderer, and blundering is a subject for jest rather than bitter denouncement. Hence the humorous and satirical note ...
— Children's Literature - A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes • Charles Madison Curry
... George Wolinsky, a dependent of Baron John of Rosenberg {1509.}. The Baron was a mighty man. He was Grand Prior of the Knights of Malta; he was an orthodox subject of the King, and he determined that on his estate no villainous Picards23 should live. "See," he said one day to George, "I have made you a servant in the Church. You must go to Church. You are a Picard, and I have received instructions ...
— History of the Moravian Church • J. E. Hutton
... I'm sorry, but you are illogical. You acknowledge that this is a subject about which you know nothing, yet almost in the same breath you criticise and condemn. Men blame women for having no sense of justice, but they are just as bad. They are worse, and with less excuse. ...
— The Lady of the Basement Flat • Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey
... for an instant and seemed to review and take account of what he had said. He was hopelessly adrift from the subject he had proposed to himself, launched for better or for worse upon the theme that was subliminal in him and had flowed up, on which he was launched, and almost rudderless, without construction and without control. The speech of his first intention, orderly, developed, was as far from him as the history ...
— The Imperialist • (a.k.a. Mrs. Everard Cotes) Sara Jeannette Duncan
... Weldon, anyhow?" another of the group queried, as dispassionately as if the subject of discussion had been absent in Rhodesia. "His face is a yard long, and his lips hang down in the ...
— On the Firing Line • Anna Chapin Ray and Hamilton Brock Fuller


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