subject
/ˈsʌb.d͡ʒɛkt/ noun A1- The noun, pronoun or noun phrase about whom the statement is made. In active clauses with verbs denoting an action, the subject is the actor. In clauses in the passive voice the subject is the target of the action. · In the active sentence ‘The cat ate the mouse’, ‘the cat’ is the subject and ‘the mouse’ is the object.
- By extension: an actor or agent; one who takes action. · the subjects and objects of power
- The main topic of a paper, work of art, discussion, field of study, etc.
- A particular area of study. · Her favorite subject is physics.
- A citizen in a monarchy. · I am a British subject.
- A person ruled over by another, especially a monarch or state authority.
- The main theme or melody, especially in a fugue.
- A human, animal, or an inanimate object that is being examined, treated, analysed, etc; especially, one being studied in a scientific experiment, such as a clinical trial. · human subject research· animal subjects
Plural subjects
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It was spoken with fervour and feeling, and yet Inspector MacDonald could not dismiss the subject.
Gardiner would have been highly gratified by her niece’s beginning the subject.
Wickham was so perfectly satisfied with this conversation, that he never again distressed himself, or provoked his dear sister Elizabeth, by introducing the subject of it; and she was pleased to find that she had said enough to keep him quiet.
This entertaining sight brought the people in crowds to laugh at it, till the Ass, not liking the noise nor the strange handling that he was subject to, broke the cords that bound him and, tumbling off the pole, fell into the river.
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