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.

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"

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"

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"

(grammar) one of the two main constituents of a sentence; the grammatical constituent about which something is predicated

(logic) the first term of a proposition

a person who owes allegiance to that nation; "a monarch has a duty to his subjects"