Meaning of 'subject' (Webster Dictionary)
- Placed or situated under; lying below, or in a lower
situation.
- Placed under the power of another; specifically
(International Law), owing allegiance to a particular sovereign or
state; as, Jamaica is subject to Great Britain.
- Exposed; liable; prone; disposed; as, a country subject to
extreme heat; men subject to temptation.
- Obedient; submissive.
- That which is placed under the authority, dominion,
control, or influence of something else.
- 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.
- That which is subjected, or submitted to, any physical
operation or process; specifically (Anat.), a dead body used for the
purpose of dissection.
- That which is brought under thought or examination; that
which is taken up for discussion, or concerning which anything is said
or done.
- The person who is treated of; the hero of a piece; the
chief character.
- 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.
- That in which any quality, attribute, or relation, whether
spiritual or material, inheres, or to which any of these appertain;
substance; substratum.
- 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.
- The principal theme, or leading thought or phrase, on
which a composition or a movement is based.
- The incident, scene, figure, group, etc., which it is the
aim of the artist to represent.
- To bring under control, power, or dominion; to make
subject; to subordinate; to subdue.
- To expose; to make obnoxious or liable; as, credulity
subjects a person to impositions.
- To submit; to make accountable.
- To make subservient.
- To cause to undergo; as, to subject a substance to a
white heat; to subject a person to a rigid test.
Meaning of 'subject' (Princeton's WordNet)
Meaning (1):
- a person who owes allegiance to that nation
Example in sentence:- a monarch has a duty to his subjects
Meaning (2):
- something (a person or object or scene) selected by an artist or photographer for graphic representation
Example in sentence:- a moving picture of a train is more dramatic than a still picture of the same subject
Meaning (3):
- a branch of knowledge
Example in sentence:- anthropology is the study of human beings;
- in what discipline is his doctorate?;
- teachers should be well trained in their subject
Meaning (4):
- the subject matter of a conversation or discussion
Example in sentence:- he didn't want to discuss that subject;
- his letters were always on the theme of love;
- it was a very sensitive topic
Meaning (5):
- some situation or event that is thought about
Example in sentence:- he had been thinking about the subject for several years;
- he kept drifting off the topic;
- it is a matter for the police
Meaning (6):
- a person who is subjected to experimental or other observational procedures; someone who is an object of investigation
Example in sentence:- the cases that we studied were drawn from two different communities;
- the subjects for this investigation were selected randomly
Meaning (7):
- make accountable for
Example in sentence:- He did not want to subject himself to the judgments of his superiors
Meaning (8):
- cause to experience or suffer or make liable or vulnerable to
Example in sentence:- He subjected me to his awful poetry;
- People in Chernobyl were subjected to radiation;
- The sergeant subjected the new recruits to many drills
Meaning (9):
- being under the power or sovereignty of another or others
Example in sentence:- a dependent prince;
- subject peoples
Meaning (10):
- possibly accepting or permitting
Example in sentence:- a passage capable of misinterpretation;
- an issue open to question;
- open to interpretation;
- the time is fixed by the director and players and therefore subject to much variation
Meaning (11):
- likely to be affected by something
Example in sentence:- he is subject to fits of depression;
- the bond is subject to taxation
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