Subject - Definition

adj 1: possibly accepting or permitting; "a passage capable of
misinterpretation"; "open to interpretation"; "an issue
open to question"; "the time is fixed by the director and
players and therefore subject to much variation" [syn:
capable, open, subject]
2: being under the power or sovereignty of another or others;
"subject peoples"; "a dependent prince" [syn: subject,
dependent]
3: likely to be affected by something; "the bond is subject to
taxation"; "he is subject to fits of depression"
n 1: the subject matter of a conversation or discussion; "he
didn't want to discuss that subject"; "it was a very
sensitive topic"; "his letters were always on the theme of
love" [syn: subject, topic, theme]
2: 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" [syn: subject, content, depicted object]
3: a branch of knowledge; "in what discipline is his
doctorate?"; "teachers should be well trained in their
subject"; "anthropology is the study of human beings" [syn:
discipline, subject, subject area, subject field,
field, field of study, study, bailiwick]
4: some situation or event that is thought about; "he kept
drifting off the topic"; "he had been thinking about the
subject for several years"; "it is a matter for the police"
[syn: topic, subject, issue, matter]
5: (grammar) one of the two main constituents of a sentence; the
grammatical constituent about which something is predicated
6: a person who is subjected to experimental or other
observational procedures; someone who is an object of
investigation; "the subjects for this investigation were
selected randomly"; "the cases that we studied were drawn
from two different communities" [syn: subject, case,
guinea pig]
7: a person who owes allegiance to that nation; "a monarch has a
duty to his subjects" [syn: national, subject]
8: (logic) the first term of a proposition
v 1: cause to experience or suffer or make liable or vulnerable
to; "He subjected me to his awful poetry"; "The sergeant
subjected the new recruits to many drills"; "People in
Chernobyl were subjected to radiation"
2: make accountable for; "He did not want to subject himself to
the judgments of his superiors"
3: make subservient; force to submit or subdue [syn:
subjugate, subject]
4: refer for judgment or consideration; "The lawyers submitted
the material to the court" [syn: submit, subject]