Synonyms: subject, content, depicted object
Definition: something (a person or object or scene) selected by an artist or photographer for graphic representation
Usage: a moving picture of a train is more dramatic than a still picture of the same subject
Similar words: thing
Definition: a separate and self-contained entity
Synonyms: topic, subject, matter, issue
Definition: some situation or event that is thought about
Usage: he kept drifting off the topic; he had been thinking about the subject for several years; it is a matter for the police
Similar words: mental object, content, cognitive content
Definition: the sum or range of what has been perceived, discovered, or learned
Synonyms: field, field of study, study, subject, subject area, subject field, bailiwick, discipline
Definition: a branch of knowledge
Usage: in what discipline is his doctorate?; teachers should be well trained in their subject; anthropology is the study of human beings
Similar words: domain, knowledge base, knowledge domain
Definition: the content of a particular field of knowledge
Synonyms: subject
Definition: (grammar) one of the two main constituents of a sentence; the grammatical constituent about which something is predicated
Similar words: constituent, grammatical constituent
Definition: (grammar) a word or phrase or clause forming part of a larger grammatical construction
Synonyms: subject
Definition: (logic) the first term of a proposition
Similar words: term
Definition: one of the substantive phrases in a logical proposition
Usage: the major term of a syllogism must occur twice
Synonyms: subject, topic, theme
Definition: the subject matter of a conversation or discussion
Usage: he didn't want to discuss that subject; it was a very sensitive topic; his letters were always on the theme of love
Similar words: subject matter, substance, message, content
Definition: what a communication that is about something is about
Definition: a person who owes allegiance to that nation
Usage: a monarch has a duty to his subjects
Similar words: somebody, someone, soul, mortal, person, individual
Definition: a human being
Usage: there was too much for one person to do
Synonyms: subject, guinea pig, case
Definition: a person who is subjected to experimental or other observational procedures; someone who is an object of investigation
Usage: the subjects for this investigation were selected randomly; the cases that we studied were drawn from two different communities
Similar words: somebody, someone, soul, mortal, person, individual
Definition: a human being
Usage: there was too much for one person to do
Definition: refer for judgment or consideration
Usage: The lawyers submitted the material to the court
Similar words: refer
Definition: send or direct for treatment, information, or a decision
Usage: refer a patient to a specialist; refer a bill to a committee
Synonyms: subject
Definition: make accountable for
Usage: He did not want to subject himself to the judgments of his superiors
Similar words: submit
Definition: yield to the control of another
Synonyms: subject
Definition: cause to experience or suffer or make liable or vulnerable to
Usage: He subjected me to his awful poetry; The sergeant subjected the new recruits to many drills; People in Chernobyl were subjected to radiation
Similar words: touch, touch on, impact, affect, bear on, bear upon
Definition: have an effect upon
Usage: Will the new rules affect me?
Definition: make subservient; force to submit or subdue
Similar words: master, dominate
Definition: have dominance or the power to defeat over
Usage: Her pain completely mastered her; The methods can master the problems
Synonyms: subject
Definition: likely to be affected by something
Usage: the bond is subject to taxation; he is subject to fits of depression
Similar words: affected
Definition: acted upon; influenced
Definition: being under the power or sovereignty of another or others
Usage: subject peoples; a dependent prince
Similar words: subordinate
Definition: subject or submissive to authority or the control of another
Usage: a subordinate kingdom
Synonyms: subject, capable, open
Definition: possibly accepting or permitting
Usage: 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
Similar words: susceptible
Definition: (often followed by `of' or `to') yielding readily to or capable of
Usage: susceptible to colds; susceptible of proof