• 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"
• 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"
• 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
• 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 person who owes allegiance to that nation; "a monarch has a duty to his Subjects"
• 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"
• refer for judgment or consideration; "She submitted a proposal to the agency"
• make accountable for; "He did not want to Subject himself to the judgments of his superiors"
• 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"
• make subservient; force to submit or subdue
• being under the power or sovereignty of another or others; "Subject peoples"; "a dependent prince"
• 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"

'Subject' in other languages