释义 |
subject /subˈjekt or -jikt/ adjective- (often with to) under rule, government, jurisdiction, or control
- Owing allegiance
- Under obligation
- Subordinate
- Subservient
- Dependent
- Liable
- Exposed
- Prone, disposed
- Cognizable
- Dependent upon condition or contingency
- Underlying, spread out below (obsolete)
adverb Conditionally (with to) noun- A person who is subject
- A person who is under, or who owes allegiance to, a sovereign, a state, a feudal superior, etc
- A citizen
- A body of such persons (Shakespeare)
- A thing over which a legal right is exercised
- A piece of property (Scot)
- A substance (obsolete)
- Something having inherent attributes
- A thing existing independently
- The mind regarded as the thinking power (as opposed to the object about which it thinks)
- That of which something is predicated, or the term denoting it (logic)
- That part of a sentence or clause denoting the person or thing about which something is said (grammar)
- A topic
- A matter of discourse, thought, or study
- A department of study
- A theme
- A person or thing on which any operation is performed
- A person or thing that is treated or handled
- Matter for any action or operation
- A ground
- A sufferer from disease, a patient
- A dead body for dissection (anatomy)
- A person peculiarly sensitive to hypnotic influence
- The person or thing that an artist or photographer seeks to represent or express
- A picture representing action and incident
- A theme or phrase around which a movement of music is built
transitive verb /səb-jektˈ/ - To make subject
- To make liable
- To subordinate
- To submit
- To subdue
- To lay open
ORIGIN: L subjectus thrown under, from sub under, and jacere to throw subjectˈed adjective - Made subject
- Subjacent (obsolete)
subjectˈify transitive verb To make subjective subjecˈtion noun subjectˈive adjective - Relating to the subject
- Derived from, expressive of or existing in one's own consciousness
- Personal, individual
- Influenced by or derived from personal taste or opinion and lacking impartiality or objectivity
- Nominative (grammar)
- Introspective
noun (grammar)The subjective case subjectˈively adverb subjectˈiveness noun subjectˈivism noun (philosophy) A term used loosely to denote any view, statement, etc in which the truth of the statement, etc depends or is founded on the mental state or reactions of the individual making it, and not on objective reasoning subjectˈivist noun and adjective subjectivistˈic adjective subjectivistˈically adverb subjectivˈity noun subjectivizaˈtion or subjectivisaˈtion noun subjectˈivize or subjectˈivise transitive verb subˈjectless adjective subˈjectship noun The state of being subject subject catalogue noun In a library, a catalogue of books arranged according to subjects dealt with subject heading noun subjective idealism noun (philosophy) A view that what is perceived exists only when and because it is perceived, subjectivism subject matter noun The subject, theme or topic subˈject-obˈject noun (philosophy) The immediate object of cognition, or the thought itself subˈject-superˈior noun A superior who is himself the subject of a sovereign |