English dictionary
subject
adjectivePronunciation
ˈsʌb.dʒɛkt
Audio pronunciation
Parts of speech
Definitions
adjective
- likely to be affected by something
adjective
- being under the power or sovereignty of another or others
adjective
- possibly accepting or permitting
noun
- something (a person or object or scene) selected by an artist or photographer for graphic representation
noun
- some situation or event that is thought about
noun
- a branch of knowledge
noun
- (grammar) one of the two main constituents of a sentence; the grammatical constituent about which something is predicated
noun
- (logic) the first term of a proposition
noun
- the subject matter of a conversation or discussion
noun
- a person who owes allegiance to that nation
noun
- a person who is subjected to experimental or other observational procedures; someone who is an object of investigation
verb
- make accountable for
verb
- cause to experience or suffer or make liable or vulnerable to
verb
- make subservient; force to submit or subdue
Example sentences
the bond is subject to taxation
he is subject to fits of depression
subject peoples
a dependent prince
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
a moving picture of a train is more dramatic than a still picture of the same subject
he kept drifting off the topic
he had been thinking about the subject for several years
it is a matter for the police
in what discipline is his doctorate?
teachers should be well trained in their subject
anthropology is the study of human beings
he didn't want to discuss that subject
it was a very sensitive topic
his letters were always on the theme of love
a monarch has a duty to his subjects
the subjects for this investigation were selected randomly
the cases that we studied were drawn from two different communities
He did not want to subject himself to the judgments of his superiors
He subjected me to his awful poetry
The sergeant subjected the new recruits to many drills
People in Chernobyl were subjected to radiation