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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



... an interview of two hours with the Duke of Wellington yesterday. He is very anxious on the subject of France. He says the people of Wurtemburg will cry out that a similar measure is intended against them—that everywhere the two extreme parties will be placed in collision. Bulow thinks the same. The Duke advised the King of Wurtemburg to avoid ...
— A Political Diary 1828-1830, Volume II • Edward Law (Lord Ellenborough)
... at all,' said Kendal, beginning perhaps to be a little bored with the subject of Miss Bretherton, and turning, eye-glass in hand, towards the sculpture. 'Come ...
— Miss Bretherton • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... many light and playful talks over the teacups that some readers may be surprised to find us taking up the most serious and solemn subject which can occupy a human intelligence. The sudden appearance among our New England Protestants of the doctrine of purgatory as a possibility, or even probability, has startled the descendants of the Puritans. It has naturally ...
— Over the Teacups • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
... old man, seated at table with his wife, his daughter, and his children, and singing to the accompaniment of musicians who appeared in the background. At first sight I recognized the subject, which I had often admired at the Louvre, and I declared it to be a splendid ...
— Serge Panine • Georges Ohnet
... mesmerism spread to India, where, in 1845, James Esdaile (1808-1859), a surgeon in the East India Company, determined to investigate the subject. He was in charge of the Native Hospital at Hooghly, and successfully mesmerised a convict before a painful operation. Encouraged by this, he persevered, and, at the end of a year, reported 120 painless operations to the ...
— The World's Greatest Books - Volume 15 - Science • Various


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