Definition of Subject

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Subject

Placed or situated under; lying below, or in a lower situation.

Placed under the power of another; specifically (International Law), owing allegiance to a particular sovereign or state; as, Jamaica is subject to Great Britain.

Exposed; liable; prone; disposed; as, a country subject to extreme heat; men subject to temptation.

Obedient; submissive.

That which is placed under the authority, dominion, control, or influence of something else.

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.

That which is subjected, or submitted to, any physical operation or process; specifically (Anat.), a dead body used for the purpose of dissection.

That which is brought under thought or examination; that which is taken up for discussion, or concerning which anything is said or done.

The person who is treated of; the hero of a piece; the chief character.

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.

That in which any quality, attribute, or relation, whether spiritual or material, inheres, or to which any of these appertain; substance; substratum.

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.

The principal theme, or leading thought or phrase, on which a composition or a movement is based.

The incident, scene, figure, group, etc., which it is the aim of the artist to represent.

To bring under control, power, or dominion; to make subject; to subordinate; to subdue.

To expose; to make obnoxious or liable; as, credulity subjects a person to impositions.

To submit; to make accountable.

To make subservient.

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 Quotations

I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too.
Thomas Jefferson

My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.
Thomas Jefferson

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
Winston Churchill

Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.
C. S. Lewis

All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.
Friedrich Nietzsche

A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual).
Ayn Rand

The constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress; therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized such a measure.
George Washington

Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!
William Shakespeare

When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.
Peter Drucker

Subject Translations

subject in Afrikaans is onderwerp
subject in Dutch is stof, onderwerp, subject
subject in Finnish is aihe
subject in German is Subjekt, Lehrfach, Gegenstand
subject in Italian is oggetti, casella, assoggettato, soggetto, tema
subject in Latin is thema
subject in Portuguese is assunto
subject in Spanish is casilla, tema

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