Main entry: 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
Main entry: 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
Main entry: 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
Main entry: subject
Definition: (grammar) one of the two main constituents of a sentence; the grammatical constituent about which something is predicated
Main entry: subject
Definition: (logic) the first term of a proposition
Main entry: 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
Definition: a person who owes allegiance to that nation
Usage: a monarch has a duty to his subjects
Main entry: 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
Definition: refer for judgment or consideration
Usage: The lawyers submitted the material to the court
Main entry: subject
Definition: make accountable for
Usage: He did not want to subject himself to the judgments of his superiors
Main entry: 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
Main entry: subject, subjugate
Definition: make subservient; force to submit or subdue
Main entry: subject
Definition: likely to be affected by something
Usage: the bond is subject to taxation; he is subject to fits of depression
Main entry: dependent, subject
Definition: being under the power or sovereignty of another or others
Usage: subject peoples; a dependent prince
Main entry: 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