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Subject Meaning in French |
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sujet
, soumettre à
, assujettir
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Definition & Synonyms
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• Subject
- (a.) Placed or situated under; lying below, or in a lower situation.
- (a.) Obedient; submissive.
- (a.) That which is placed under the authority, dominion, control, or influence of something else.
- (a.) That in which any quality, attribute, or relation, whether spiritual or material, inheres, or to which any of these appertain; substance; substratum.
- (a.) That which is subjected, or submitted to, any physical operation or process; specifically (Anat.), a dead body used for the purpose of dissection.
- (n.) The principal theme, or leading thought or phrase, on which a composition or a movement is based.
- (v. t.) To cause to undergo; as, to subject a substance to a white heat; to subject a person to a rigid test.
- (v. t.) To bring under control, power, or dominion; to make subject; to subordinate; to subdue.
- (a.) That which is brought under thought or examination; that which is taken up for discussion, or concerning which anything is said or done.
- (a.) That of which anything is affirmed or predicated; the theme of a proposition or discourse; that which is spoken of; as, the nominative case is the subject of the verb.
- (a.) Hence, that substance or being which is conscious of its own operations; the mind; the thinking agent or principal; the ego. Cf. Object, n., 2.
- (v. t.) To make subservient.
- (a.) Specifically: One who is under the authority of a ruler and is governed by his laws; one who owes allegiance to a sovereign or a sovereign state; as, a subject of Queen Victoria; a British subject; a subject of the United States.
- (a.) Placed under the power of another; specifically (International Law), owing allegiance to a particular sovereign or state; as, Jamaica is subject to Great Britain.
- (a.) The person who is treated of; the hero of a piece; the chief character.
- (v. t.) To submit; to make accountable.
- (a.) Exposed; liable; prone; disposed; as, a country subject to extreme heat; men subject to temptation.
- (n.) The incident, scene, figure, group, etc., which it is the aim of the artist to represent.
- (v. t.) To expose; to make obnoxious or liable; as, credulity subjects a person to impositions.
Synonyms:
Bailiwick, Case, Content, Dependent, Discipline, Field, Issue, Matter, National, Study, Subjugate, Theme, Topic,
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• Subjected
- (imp. & p. p.) of Subject
- (a.) Subjacent.
- (a.) Reduced to subjection; brought under the dominion of another.
- (a.) Exposed; liable; subject; obnoxious.
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• Subjecting
- (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Subject
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manage, into, artichoke, stodgy, quintessence, channel, quiet, intestinal, tatting, aphid, aphasia, inspect, insouciant, insomuch as, smack, aliment, insight, curdled, induce, acquittal, section, illiteracy, pterodactyl, psychosis, shrimp, paramour, wiping, prawn, pratincole, launcher, horripilation, reek, |
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Nightingale, You, Love, Wait, Rim, Rime, I, Awesome, Waste, Go, Hello, Which, Forsake, Abbe, Abbreviation, Ravage, Humiliate, Abash, Chagrin, Degradation, Name, Abate, Abbreviate, Desert, Abbey, Abandon, Hang, Discomfit, Dangle, Abattoir, Opposite, Abandonment, |
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