Definición de subject

Frecuencia de uso de la palabra

subject

Formas de la palabra:plural, 3rd person singular present tense subjects, present participle subjecting , past tense, past participle subjected pronunciation note: The noun and adjective are pronounced (sʌbdʒɪkt ). The verb is pronounced (səbdʒekt ).

1. sustantivo contable

The subject of something such as a conversation, letter, or book is the thing that is being discussed or written about.

It was I who first raised the subject of plastic surgery.

...the president's own views on the subject.

...steering the conversation round to his favourite subject.

Sinónimos:topic, question, issue, matter Más sinónimos de subject

2. sustantivo contable

Someone or something that is the subject of criticism, study, or an investigation is being criticized, studied, or investigated.

Over the past few years, some of the positions Mr. Meredith has adopted have made him the subject of criticism. [+ of]

He's now the subject of an official inquiry. [+ of]

3. sustantivo contable

A subject is an area of knowledge or study, especially one that you study at school, college, or university.

Surprisingly, mathematics was voted their favourite subject.

...a tutor in maths and science subjects.

Sinónimos:branch of study, area, field, discipline Más sinónimos de subject

4. sustantivo contable

In an experiment or piece of research, the subject is the person or animal that is being tested or studied.

[formal]

'White noise' was played into the subject's ears through headphones.

Subjects in the study were asked to follow a modified diet.

Sinónimos:participant, case, patient, victim Más sinónimos de subject

5. sustantivo contable

An artist's subjects are the people, animals, or objects that he or she paints, models, or photographs.

Her favourite subjects are shells spotted on beach walks.

6. sustantivo contable

In grammar, the subject of a clause is the noun group that refers to the person or thing that is doing the action expressed by the verb. For example, in 'My cat keeps catching birds', 'my cat' is the subject.

7. adjetivo

To be subject to something means to be affected by it or to be likely to be affected by it.

Prices may be subject to alteration. [+ to]

Foreign wine was subject to an import tax. [+ to]

...a disorder in which the person's mood is subject to wild swings from mania to depression.

8. adjetivo

If someone is subject to a particular set of rules or laws, they have to obey those rules or laws.

The tribunal is unique because Mr Jones is not subject to the normal police discipline code. [+ to]

...arguing that as a sovereign state it could not be subject to another country's laws.

9. verbo

If you subject someone to something unpleasant, you make them experience it.

...the man who had subjected her to four years of beatings and abuse. [VERB noun + to]

Innocent civilians are being arrested and subjected to inhumane treatment. [VERB noun to noun]

Sinónimos:put through, expose, submit, lay open Más sinónimos de subject

10. sustantivo contable

The people who live in or belong to a particular country, usually one ruled by a monarch, are the subjects of that monarch or country.

...his subjects regarded him as a great and wise monarch.

Roughly half of them are British subjects.

Sinónimos:citizen, resident, native, inhabitant Más sinónimos de subject

11. adjetivo [ADJECTIVE noun]

Subject peoples and countries are ruled or controlled by the government of another country.

[formal]

The subject peoples of her empire were anxious for their own independence.

...colonies and other subject territories.

Sinónimos:subordinate, dependent, satellite, inferior Más sinónimos de subject

12.

to change the subject

13.

subject to sth

Más sinónimos de subject

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Frecuencia de uso de la palabra

subject in American

(ˈsʌbdʒɪkt ; subˈjikt; ˈsʌbˌdʒɛkt ; subˈjektˌ; for v. səbˈdʒɛkt ; səbjektˈ)

adjetivo

under the authority or control of, or owing allegiance to, another

subject peoples

having a disposition or tendency; liable (to)

subject to fits of anger

liable to receive; exposed (to)

subject to censure

contingent or conditional upon (with to)

subject to your approval

sustantivo

a person under the authority or control of another; esp., a person owing allegiance to a particular ruler, government, etc.

someone or something made to undergo a treatment, experiment, analysis, dissection, etc.

something dealt with in discussion, study, writing, painting, etc.; theme

the main theme or melody of a musical composition or movement, esp., the opening theme in a fugue

originating cause, reason, or motive

10.

any of the various courses of study in a school or college; branch of learning

11. Grammar

the noun or other substantive that is one of the two immediate constituents of a sentence and about which something is said in the predicate

12. Logic

that part of a proposition about which something is said; that which is affirmed or denied

13. Philosophy

the actual substance of anything as distinguished from its qualities and attributes

the mind, or ego, that thinks and feels, as distinguished from everything outside the mind

verbo transitivo

14. Obsolete

to place under or below

15.

to bring under the authority or control of; cause to owe allegiance

16.

to make liable or vulnerable

to subject oneself to the contempt of others

17.

to cause to experience or receive some action or treatment

to subject someone to interrogation, subject a new drug to rigorous testing

18. Rare

to place before; submit

a plan subjected for approval

SYNONYMY NOTE: subject is the general word for whatever is dealt with in discussion, study, writing, art, etc. [the subject of a talk, painting, etc.]; a theme is a subject developed or elaborated upon in a literary or artistic work, or one that constitutes the underlying motif of the work [a novel with a social theme]; a topic is a subject of common interest selected for individual treatment, as in an essay, or for discussion by a group of persons [baseball is their favorite topic of conversation]; text is specifically applied to a Biblical passage chosen as the subject of a sermon

Formas derivadas

subjection (subˈjection)

sustantivo

Origen de la palabra subject

ME suget < OFr < L subjectus, pp. of subjicere, to place under, put under, subject < sub-, under + jacere, to throw: see jet1; (sense 7) L subjectum, foundation, subject (transl. of Gr to hypokeimenon)

Frecuencia de uso de la palabra

subject in British

sustantivo (ˈsʌbdʒɪkt )

the predominant theme or topic, as of a book, discussion, etc

(in combination)

subject-heading

any branch of learning considered as a course of study

3. grammar, logic

a word, phrase, or formal expression about which something is predicated or stated in a sentence; for example, the cat in the sentence The cat catches mice

a person or thing that undergoes experiment, analysis, treatment, etc

a person who lives under the rule of a monarch, government, etc

an object, figure, scene, etc, as selected by an artist or photographer for representation

7. philosophy

that which thinks or feels as opposed to the object of thinking and feeling; the self or the mind

a substance as opposed to its attributes

8. Also called: theme music

a melodic or thematic phrase used as the principal motif of a fugue, the basis from which the musical material is derived in a sonata-form movement, or the recurrent figure in a rondo

9. logic

the term of a categorial statement of which something is predicated

the reference or denotation of the subject term of a statement. The subject of John is tall is not the name John, but John himself

10.

an originating motive

11. change the subject

adjetivo (ˈsʌbdʒɪkt ) (usually postpositive; and foll by to)

12.

being under the power or sovereignty of a ruler, government, etc

subject peoples

13.

showing a tendency (towards)

a child subject to indiscipline

14.

exposed or vulnerable

subject to ribaldry

15.

conditional upon

the results are subject to correction

adverbio

16. subject to

verbo (səbˈdʒɛkt ) (transitive)

17. (foll by to)

to cause to undergo the application (of)

they subjected him to torture

18. (often passive; foll by to)

to expose or render vulnerable or liable (to some experience)

he was subjected to great danger

19. (foll by to)

to bring under the control or authority (of)

to subject a soldier to discipline

20. rare

to subdue or subjugate

21. rare

to present for consideration; submit

22. obsolete

to place below

Abbreviation: subj

Formas derivadas

subjectable (subˈjectable)

adjetivo

subjectability (subˌjectaˈbility)

sustantivo

subjectless (ˈsubjectless)

adjetivo

subject-like (ˈsubject-ˌlike)

adjetivo

Origen de la palabra subject

C14: from Latin subjectus brought under, from subicere to place under, from sub- + jacere to throw

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