subject

subject
    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}]
    

Subject \Sub*ject"\, n. [From L. subjectus, through an old form
   of F. sujet. See {Subject}, a.]
   1. That which is placed under the authority, dominion,
      control, or influence of something else.
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   2. 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.
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            Was never subject longed to be a king,
            As I do long and wish to be a subject. --Shak.
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            The subject must obey his prince, because God
            commands it, human laws require it.   --Swift.
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   Note: In international law, the term subject is convertible
         with citizen.
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   3. That which is subjected, or submitted to, any physical
      operation or process; specifically (Anat.), a dead body
      used for the purpose of dissection.
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   4. That which is brought under thought or examination; that
      which is taken up for discussion, or concerning which
      anything is said or done. "This subject for heroic song."
      --Milton.
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            Make choice of a subject, beautiful and noble, which
            . . . shall afford an ample field of matter wherein
            to expatiate.                         --Dryden.
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            The unhappy subject of these quarrels. --Shak.
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   5. The person who is treated of; the hero of a piece; the
      chief character.
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            Writers of particular lives . . . are apt to be
            prejudiced in favor of their subject. --C.
                                                  Middleton.
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   6. (Logic & Gram.) 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.
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            The subject of a proposition is that concerning
            which anything is affirmed or denied. --I. Watts.
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   7. That in which any quality, attribute, or relation, whether
      spiritual or material, inheres, or to which any of these
      appertain; substance; substratum.
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            That which manifests its qualities -- in other
            words, that in which the appearing causes inhere,
            that to which they belong -- is called their subject
            or substance, or substratum.          --Sir W.
                                                  Hamilton.
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   8. 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.
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            The philosophers of mind have, in a manner, usurped
            and appropriated this expression to themselves.
            Accordingly, in their hands, the phrases conscious
            or thinking subject, and subject, mean precisely the
            same thing.                           --Sir W.
                                                  Hamilton.
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   9. (Mus.) The principal theme, or leading thought or phrase,
      on which a composition or a movement is based.
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            The earliest known form of subject is the
            ecclesiastical cantus firmus, or plain song.
                                                  --Rockstro.
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   10. (Fine Arts) The incident, scene, figure, group, etc.,
       which it is the aim of the artist to represent.
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Subject \Sub*ject"\, a. [OE. suget, OF. souzget, sougit (in
   which the first part is L. subtus below, fr. sub under),
   subgiet, subject, F. sujet, from L. subjectus lying under,
   subjected, p. p. of subjicere, subicere, to throw, lay,
   place, or bring under; sub under + jacere to throw. See {Jet}
   a shooting forth.]
   1. Placed or situated under; lying below, or in a lower
      situation. [Obs.] --Spenser.
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   2. Placed under the power of another; specifically
      (International Law), owing allegiance to a particular
      sovereign or state; as, Jamaica is subject to Great
      Britain.
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            Esau was never subject to Jacob.      --Locke.
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   3. Exposed; liable; prone; disposed; as, a country subject to
      extreme heat; men subject to temptation.
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            All human things are subject to decay. --Dryden.
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   4. Obedient; submissive.
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            Put them in mind to be subject to principalities.
                                                  --Titus iii.
                                                  1.
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   Syn: Liable; subordinate; inferior; obnoxious; exposed. See
        {Liable}.
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Subject \Sub*ject"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Subjected}; p. pr. &
   vb. n. {Subjecting}.]
   1. To bring under control, power, or dominion; to make
      subject; to subordinate; to subdue.
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            Firmness of mind that subjects every gratification
            of sense to the rule of right reason. --C.
                                                  Middleton.
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            In one short view subjected to our eye,
            Gods, emperors, heroes, sages, beauties, lie.
                                                  --Pope.
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            He is the most subjected, the most ?nslaved, who is
            so in his understanding.              --Locke.
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   2. To expose; to make obnoxious or liable; as, credulity
      subjects a person to impositions.
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   3. To submit; to make accountable.
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            God is not bound to subject his ways of operation to
            the scrutiny of our thoughts.         --Locke.
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   4. To make subservient.
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            Subjected to his service angel wings. --Milton.
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   5. To cause to undergo; as, to subject a substance to a white
      heat; to subject a person to a rigid test.
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subject

   <programming> In {subject-oriented programming}, a subject is
   a collection of {classes} or class fragments whose {class
   hierarchy} models its domain in its own, subjective way.  A
   subject may be a complete application in itself, or it may be
   an incomplete fragment that must be composed with other
   subjects to produce a complete application.  Subject
   composition combines class hierarchies to produce new subjects
   that incorporate functionality from existing subjects.

   (1999-08-31)
    

SUBJECT, contracts. The thing which is the object of an agreement. This term 
is used in the laws of Scotland. 
    

SUBJECT, persons, government. An individual member of a nation, who is 
subject to the laws; this term is used in contradistinction to citizen, 
which is applied to the same individual when considering his political 
rights. 
     2. In monarchical governments, by subject is meant one who owes 
permanent allegiance to the monarch. Vide Body politic; Greenl. Ev. Sec. 
286; Phil. & Am. on Ev. 732, n. 1. 
    

357 Moby Thesaurus words for "subject":
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      agent, anagnorisis, angle, answerable to, application, appositive,
      apt, architect, architectonics, architecture, area, argument,
      atmosphere, attribute, attributive, author, background, basis,
      bondmaid, bondman, bondslave, bondsman, bondswoman, boning,
      brainwork, burden, burden with, business, captive, case,
      catastrophe, cause, chapter, characterization, charge, chattel,
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      discussed, disenfranchise, disfranchise, disposed to, doer,
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      episode, essence, exact, examinant, examinate, examinee, excuse,
      executant, executor, executrix, exercise, expose, exposed,
      exposed to, extensive study, fable, fabricator, falling action,
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      focus of attention, focus of interest, form-function unit,
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      general studies, gimmick, gist, grind, grinding, grounds,
      guinea pig, head, heading, headwork, helot, hold captive,
      hold down, hold in bondage, hold in captivity, hold in leash,
      hold in subjection, homager, humanities, humble, hyphenate,
      hyphenated American, immediate constituent analysis, immigrant,
      impose, impose on, impose upon, in the shade, incident,
      indirect object, inferior, inflict on, inflict upon, informant,
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      mental labor, metic, minor, modest, modifier, mood, motif, motive,
      movement, mover, mythos, national, naturalized citizen,
      nonnative citizen, object, obnoxious, odalisque, open, open to,
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      point in question, practice, practitioner, predicate, prime mover,
      problem, producer, prone, prone to, proseminar, put, put down,
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      questionee, quizzee, ranks, rationale, reading, reason,
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      restudy, restudying, review, rising action, rubric, saddle with,
      scheme, scientific education, second rank, second string,
      secondary, secondary plot, seminar, sensitive, serf, servant,
      servile, set, shallow structure, slant, slave, slavish, slot,
      slot and filler, source, specialty, story, strata, structure,
      study, studying, sub, subaltern, subdiscipline, subdue,
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      subordinate, subplot, subservient, substance, surface structure,
      susceptible, switch, swotting, syntactic analysis,
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      task, tax, taxpayer, technical education, testee, text,
      thematic development, theme, theow, thesis, third rank,
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      vassalize, villein, voter, vulgar, weight down with, wide reading,
      witness, word arrangement, word order, worker, yoke with