The Meaning of subject

• (a.) Placed or situated under; lying below, or in a lower situation.
• (a.) Placed under the power of another; specifically (International Law), owing allegiance to a particular sovereign or state; as, Jamaica is subject to Great Britain.
• (a.) Exposed; liable; prone; disposed; as, a country subject to extreme heat; men subject to temptation.
• (a.) Obedient; submissive.
• (a.) That which is placed under the authority, dominion, control, or influence of something else.
• (a.) 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.
• (a.) That which is subjected, or submitted to, any physical operation or process; specifically (Anat.), a dead body used for the purpose of dissection.
• (a.) That which is brought under thought or examination; that which is taken up for discussion, or concerning which anything is said or done.
• (a.) The person who is treated of; the hero of a piece; the chief character.
• (a.) 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.
• (a.) That in which any quality, attribute, or relation, whether spiritual or material, inheres, or to which any of these appertain; substance; substratum.
• (a.) 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.
• (n.) The principal theme, or leading thought or phrase, on which a composition or a movement is based.
• (n.) The incident, scene, figure, group, etc., which it is the aim of the artist to represent.
• (v. t.) To bring under control, power, or dominion; to make subject; to subordinate; to subdue.
• (v. t.) To expose; to make obnoxious or liable; as, credulity subjects a person to impositions.
• (v. t.) To submit; to make accountable.
• (v. t.) To make subservient.
• (v. t.) To cause to undergo; as, to subject a substance to a white heat; to subject a person to a rigid test.

Synonyms

topic , theme , content , depicted object , discipline , subject area , subject field , field , field of study , study , bailiwick , topic , issue , matter , case , guinea pig , national , subjugate , submit , capable , open , dependent

Rhymes

affect , aftereffect , albrecht , architect , aspect , becht , bedecked , brecht , checked , circumspect , collect , confect , connect , correct , decked , defect , deflect , deject , deregt , detect , dialect , direct , disaffect , disconnect , disinfect , disrespect , dissect , effect , eject , elect , erect , expect , fecht , hecht , henpecked , incorrect , indirect , infect , inject , insect , inspect , intellect , interconnect , interject , intersect , introspect , knecht , misdirect , necked , neglect , nondirect , object , overprotect , pecht , perfect , prefect , project , protect , rechecked , recht , recollect , reconnect , redirect , reflect , reinspect , reject , respect , resurrect , retrospect , schlecht , sect , select , specht , suspect , teleconnect , trekked , unchecked , wecht , whelked , wrecked