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Adjective
- likely to be affected by something
- the bond is subject to taxation
- he is subject to fits of depression
- being under the power or sovereignty of another or others
- possibly accepting or permitting
- a passage capable of misinterpretation
- an issue open to question
- the time is fixed by the director and players and therefore subject to much variation
Noun
- (logic) the first term of a proposition
- a person who owes allegiance to that nation
- a monarch has a duty to his subjects
- 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
- (grammar) one of the two main constituents of a sentence; the grammatical constituent about which something is predicated
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
Verb
- refer for judgment or consideration
- The lawyers submitted the material to the court
- make subservient; force to submit or subdue
- make accountable for
- He did not want to subject himself to the judgments of his superiors
- 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