Definitions & Examples
noun
Sense 1
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"
Type of:
thing
verb
Sense 3
"He subjected me to his awful poetry"
"The sergeant subjected the new recruits to many drills"
"People in Chernobyl were subjected to radiation"
Usage Patterns:
Somebody ----s whether INFINITIVE
Somebody ----s somebody into V-ing something
verb
Sense 4
make accountable for
"He did not want to subject himself to the judgments of his superiors"
Type of:
submit
Usage Patterns:
Somebody ----s something with something
noun
Sense 5
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"
noun
Sense 6
"he didn''t want to discuss that subject"
"it was a very sensitive topic"
"his letters were always on the theme of love"
noun
Sense 8
(grammar) one of the two main constituents of a sentence; the grammatical constituent about which something is predicated
Domain:
grammar
verb
Sense 10
"She submitted a proposal to the agency"
Type of:
refer
Usage Patterns:
Somebody ----s somebody into V-ing something
Somebody ----s somebody to INFINITIVE
noun
Sense 11
"in what discipline is his doctorate?"
"teachers should be well trained in their subject"
"anthropology is the study of human beings"
verb
Sense 12
Usage Patterns:
Somebody ----s something with something
noun
Sense 13
"he kept drifting off the topic"
"he had been thinking about the subject for several years"
"it is a matter for the police"
adjective satellite
Sense 14
"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"
Similar:
susceptible
Semantic Complexity
100%
Sense Count
14
Total Synonyms
2
Total Relationships
80
Times Searched
3
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