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- 1 Likely to be affected by or to experience something; liable.
"a country subject to extreme heat"
- 2 Conditional upon something; used with to.
"The local board sets local policy, subject to approval from the State Board."
- 3 Placed or situated under; lying below, or in a lower situation.
"Long he them bore above the subject plain"
- 4 Placed under the power of another; owing allegiance to a particular sovereign or state.
", Book I Esau was never subject to Jacob."
- 1 likely to be affected by something wordnet
- 2 being under the power or sovereignty of another or others wordnet
- 3 possibly accepting or permitting wordnet
- 1 The noun, pronoun or noun phrase about whom the statement is made. In active clauses with verbs denoting an action, the subject is the actor. In clauses in the passive voice the subject is the target of the action.
"A subject (Sub) is a word, phrase, or clause that performs the action of or acts upon the verb in the predicate."
- 2 something (a person or object or scene) selected by an artist or photographer for graphic representation wordnet
- 3 By faulty generalisation from a clause's grammatical subject often being coinstantiated with one: an actor or agent; one who takes action.
"the subjects and objects of power"
- 4 some situation or event that is thought about wordnet
- 5 The main topic of a paper, work of art, discussion, field of study, etc.
"this subject for heroic song"
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- 6 a branch of knowledge wordnet
- 7 A particular area of study.
"Her favorite subject is physics."
- 8 (grammar) one of the two main constituents of a sentence; the grammatical constituent about which something is predicated wordnet
- 9 A citizen in a monarchy.
"I am a British subject."
- 10 (logic) the first term of a proposition wordnet
- 11 A person ruled over by another, especially a monarch or state authority.
"[…]the Grand Khan seemed to grasp the "truth" of the religion and might become a convert, thereby gaining for Christianity the souls of all his subjects."
- 12 the subject matter of a conversation or discussion wordnet
- 13 The main theme or melody, especially in a fugue.
"The earliest known form of subject is the ecclesiastical cantus firmus, or plain song."
- 14 a person who owes allegiance to that nation wordnet
- 15 A human, animal, or an inanimate object that is being examined, treated, analysed, etc; especially, one being studied in a scientific experiment, such as a clinical trial.
"human subject research"
- 16 a person who is subjected to experimental or other observational procedures; someone who is an object of investigation wordnet
- 17 A being that has subjective experiences, subjective consciousness, or a relationship with another entity.
- 18 That of which something is stated.
- 19 The variable in terms of which an expression is defined.
"Making x the subject of x² − 6x + 3y = 0, we have x = 3 ± √(9 − 3y)."
- 1 To cause (someone or something) to undergo a particular experience, especially one that is unpleasant or unwanted. transitive
"I came here to buy souvenirs, not to be subjected to a tirade of abuse!"
- 2 make accountable for wordnet
- 3 To make subordinate or subservient; to subdue or enslave; to subjugate. transitive
- 4 cause to experience or suffer or make liable or vulnerable to wordnet
- 5 make subservient; force to submit or subdue wordnet
Etymology
From Middle English subget, from Old French suget, from Latin subiectus (“lying under or near, adjacent, also subject, exposed”), as a noun, subiectus (“a subject, an inferior”), subiectum (“the subject of a proposition”), past participle of subiciō (“throw, lay, place”), from sub (“under, at the foot of”) + iaciō (“throw, hurl”), as a calque of Ancient Greek ὑποκείμενον (hupokeímenon).
From Latin subiectus (“a subject, an inferior”), subiectum (“the subject of a proposition”), past participle of subiciō (“throw, lay, place”), from sub (“under, at the foot of”) + iaciō (“throw, hurl”).
From Medieval Latin subiectō, iterative of subiciō (“throw, lay, place”), from sub (“under, at the foot of”) + iaciō (“throw, hurl”).
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