Subject (IPA: /ˈsəbdʒɪkt/, /səbˈdʒɛkt/)
| Subject (a.) |
Placed or situated under; lying below, or in a lower situation. |
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Placed under the power of another; specifically (International Law), owing allegiance to a particular sovereign or state; as, Jamaica is subject to Great Britain. |
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Exposed; liable; prone; disposed; as, a country subject to extreme heat; men subject to temptation. |
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Obedient; submissive. |
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That which is placed under the authority, dominion, control, or influence of something else. |
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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. |
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That which is subjected, or submitted to, any physical operation or process; specifically (Anat.), a dead body used for the purpose of dissection. |
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That which is brought under thought or examination; that which is taken up for discussion, or concerning which anything is said or done. |
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The person who is treated of; the hero of a piece; the chief character. |
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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. |
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That in which any quality, attribute, or relation, whether spiritual or material, inheres, or to which any of these appertain; substance; substratum. |
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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. |
| Subject (n.) |
The principal theme, or leading thought or phrase, on which a composition or a movement is based. |
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The incident, scene, figure, group, etc., which it is the aim of the artist to represent. |
| Subject (v. t.) |
To bring under control, power, or dominion; to make subject; to subordinate; to subdue. |
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To expose; to make obnoxious or liable; as, credulity subjects a person to impositions. |
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To submit; to make accountable. |
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To make subservient. |
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To cause to undergo; as, to subject a substance to a white heat; to subject a person to a rigid test. |
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Linguistics: word or phrase which controls the verb in the clause; one of the two main constituents of a clause (the other is predicate) |
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Being who has a unique consciousness and/or unique personal experiences, or an entity that has a relationship with another entity that exists outside of itself |
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Person ruled over by another (typically used for citizens in a monarchy) |
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Property of an object in object-oriented programming |
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In library science, a property of a document |
| Example Sentence (Quote) ".. .the excellence of the mental entertainment consists less in the subject than in the author's skill in well dressing it up." - Henry Fielding |
| Example Sentence (Quote) ".. .the more a subject is understood, the more briefly it may be explained." - Thomas Jefferson |
| Example Sentence (Quote) "A great challenge lies ahead in the modeling and verification of systems that are subject to timing constraints." - John A. Stankovic |
| Example Sentence (Quote) "A man provided with paper, pencil, and rubber, and subject to strict discipline, is in effect a universal machine." - Alan Turing |
| Example Sentence (Quote) "A riot is a spontaneous outburst. A war is subject to advance planning." - War |
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