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subject

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1. subject - Noun

2. subject - Adjective

3. subject - Verb

4. subject - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

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.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it. Samuel Johnson

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject. Winston Churchill

The hairsplitting difference between formed and unformed makes no difference to us. Whoever deliberately commits abortion is subject to the penalty for homicide. Basil of Caesarea

The bandits in the mountain are easily subjected, but it is difficult to subject the bandits in my heart. Japanese Proverb

You are the subject of he whose handcuffs you wear. Akan Proverb

He who would speak well should well consider his subject beforehand. Latin Proverb

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