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Definitions of subject:

part of speech: verb transitive

To throw or bring under: to bring under the power of: to make subordinate or subservient: to subdue: to ensalve: to expose or make liable to: to cause to undergo.

part of speech: adjective

Being under the power or control of another; as, to be subject to a king; exposed; liable: with to; as, subject to temptation; subject to change.

part of speech: verb transitive

To bring under power or control; to make subordinate or secondary; render liable; expose; as, to subject a person to unpleasantness; to cause to undergo; as, to subject a substance to heat.

part of speech: noun

One under the power of another: one under allegiance to a sovereign: that on which any operation is performed: that which is treated or handled: ( anat.) a dead body for dissection: ( art) that which it is the object of the artist to express: that of which anything is said: topic: matter, materials.

part of speech: adjective

Being or living under the power or dominion of another; exposed; liable, either from extraneous or inherent causes; obedient; tributary.

part of speech: verb

To bring under; to subdue; to expose; to make liable; to put under or within the power of; to enslave; to cause to undergo.

part of speech: noun

One who is under the power or control of another; one who owes allegiance to a monarch; as, the rights of subjects; that which is treated in writing, speaking, etc., or concerning which anything is said or done; topic; the word or word group in a sentence, denoting that of which anything is affirmed: distinguished from predicate, the thing affirmed.

part of speech: adjective

Under the power of another: liable, exposed: subordinate: subservient.

part of speech: noun

One who owes allegiance to a sovereign; one who lives under the dominion of another; that which is treated or handled in speaking, writing, art, & c.; materials; matter; a dead body for dissection; the theme; the topic; the hero of a piece; in logic and gram., that part of a proposition concerning which anything is affirmed or denied.

Usage examples for subject:

• Dave dropped the subject "The Cow Puncher", Robert J. C. Stead

• To this Miss Waddington answered nothing, nor would she just then talk any further with her aunt upon the subject "The Bertrams", Anthony Trollope

• We soon reach the end of so much as we have to say on that subject "The Craft of Fiction", Percy Lubbock

• But they do- He came back to the subject of his wife. "The Gay Cockade", Temple Bailey