subject
     adj 1: not exempt from tax; "the gift will be subject to taxation"
            [syn: {subject(p)}]
     2:  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" [syn: {capable},
         {open}]
     3: being under the power or sovereignty of another or others;
        "subject peoples"; "a dependent prince" [syn: {dependent}]
     n 1: 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" [syn: {topic}, {theme}]
     2: 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" [syn: {topic}, {issue}, {matter}]
     3: 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"
        [syn: {discipline}, {subject area}, {subject field}, {field},
         {field of study}, {study}, {bailiwick}, {branch of
        knowledge}]
     4: 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" [syn: {content}, {depicted
        object}]
     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" [syn: {case}, {guinea pig}]
     6: a person who owes allegiance to that nation; "a monarch has
        a duty to his subjects" [syn: {national}]
     7: (grammar) one of the two main constituents of a sentence;
        the grammatical constituent about which something is
        predicated
     8: (logic) the first term of a proposition
     v 1: 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"
     2: make accountable for; "He did not want to subject himself to
        the judgments of his superiors"
     3: make subservient; force to submit or subdue [syn: {subjugate}]
     4: refer for judgment or consideration; "She submitted a
        proposal to the agency" [syn: {submit}]
Source: WordNet® 2.0