subject

1. a. Placed or situated under; lying below, or in a lower situation. Source: opted

2. 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. Source: opted

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

4. a. Obedient; submissive. Source: opted

5. a. That which is placed under the authority, dominion, control, or influence of something else. Source: opted

6. 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. Source: opted

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

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

9. a. The person who is treated of; the hero of a piece; the chief character. Source: opted

10. 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. Source: opted

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

12. 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. Source: opted

13. n. The principal theme, or leading thought or phrase, on which a composition or a movement is based. Source: opted

14. n. The incident, scene, figure, group, etc., which it is the aim of the artist to represent. Source: opted

15. v. t. To bring under control, power, or dominion; to make subject; to subordinate; to subdue. Source: opted

16. v. t. To expose; to make obnoxious or liable; as, credulity subjects a person to impositions. Source: opted

17. v. t. To submit; to make accountable. Source: opted

18. v. t. To make subservient. Source: opted

19. v. t. To cause to undergo; as, to subject a substance to a white heat; to subject a person to a rigid test. Source: opted

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