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subject

English

🔊 likely to be affected by something
“the bond is subject to taxation”
🔊 being under the power or sovereignty of another or others
“subject peoples”
🔊 possibly accepting or permitting
“a passage capable of misinterpretation”
🔊 something (a person or object or scene) selected by an artist or photographer for graphic representation
“a moving picture of a train is more dramatic than a still picture of the same subject”
🔊 (grammar) one of the two main constituents of a sentence
🔊 (logic) the first term of a proposition
🔊 the subject matter of a conversation or discussion
“he didn't want to discuss that subject”
🔊 a person who is subjected to experimental or other observational procedures
“the subjects for this investigation were selected randomly”
🔊 some situation or event that is thought about
“he kept drifting off the topic”
🔊 a branch of knowledge
“in what discipline is his doctorate?”
🔊 a person who owes allegiance to that nation
“a monarch has a duty to his subjects”
🔊 make accountable for
“He did not want to subject himself to the judgments of his superiors”
🔊 cause to experience or suffer or make liable or vulnerable to
“He subjected me to his awful poetry”
🔊 make subservient