subject in WordNet English dictionary

1. 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"
   discipline  subject  subject area  subject field  field  field of study  study  bailiwick 
   
2. 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"
   subject  case  guinea pig 
   
3. 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"
   subject  content  depicted object 
   
4. 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"
   topic  subject  issue  matter 
   
5. a person who owes allegiance to that nation
   "a monarch has a duty to his subjects"
   national  subject 
   
6. 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"
   subject  topic  theme 
   
7. (grammar) one of the two main constituents of a sentence; the grammatical constituent about which something is predicated
   subject 
   
8. (logic) the first term of a proposition
   subject 
   

1. possibly accepting or permitting
   "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"
   capable  open  subject 
   
2. being under the power or sovereignty of another or others
   "subject peoples"; "a dependent prince"
   subject  dependent 
   
3. likely to be affected by something
   "the bond is subject to taxation"; "he is subject to fits of depression"
   subject 
   

1. refer for judgment or consideration
   "The lawyers submitted the material to the court"
   submit  subject 
   
2. make accountable for
   "He did not want to subject himself to the judgments of his superiors"
   subject 
   
3. 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"
   subject 
   
4. make subservient; force to submit or subdue
   subjugate  subject