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Adjective subject has 3 senses

subject - not exempt from tax; "the gift will be subject to taxation"
Antonyms: nontaxable, exempt (indirect, via taxable)
capable, open, subject - 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"
Antonyms: unsusceptible, insusceptible (indirect, via susceptible)
subject, dependent - being under the power or sovereignty of another or others; "subject peoples"; "a dependent prince"
Antonym: insubordinate (indirect, via subordinate)

Noun subject has 8 senses

subject, topic, theme - 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"
--₁ is a kind of message, content, subject matter, substance
--₁ has particulars: bone of contention; precedent; question, head; keynote
topic, subject, issue, matter - 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"
--₂ is a kind of content, cognitive content, mental object
--₂ has particulars: blind spot; res judicata, res adjudicata; area

discipline, subject, subject area, subject field, field, field of study, study, bailiwick, branch of knowledge - 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"
--₃ is a kind of knowledge domain, knowledge base
--₃ has particulars:

subject, content, depicted object - 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"
--₄ is a kind of thing
--₄ is a part of scene, view
subject, case, guinea pig - 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"
--₅ is a kind of person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, human, soul
national, subject - a person who owes allegiance to that nation; "a monarch has a duty to his subjects"
--₆ is a kind of person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, human, soul
--₆ is a member of nation, land, country, a people
--₆ has particulars: citizen; compatriot; patriot, nationalist
Derived form: verb subject₃
subject - (grammar) one of the two main constituents of a sentence; the grammatical constituent about which something is predicated
--₇ is a kind of constituent, grammatical constituent
subject - (logic) the first term of a proposition
--₈ is a kind of term

Verb subject has 4 senses

subject - 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"
--₁ is one way to affect, impact, bear upon, bear on, touch on, touch
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s somebody PP
Somebody ----s something PP
subject - make accountable for; "He did not want to subject himself to the judgments of his superiors"
--₂ is one way to submit
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s somebody
subjugate, subject - make subservient; force to submit or subdue
--₃ is one way to dominate, master

Derived forms: noun subject₆, noun subjection₁, noun subjection₂
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s somebody
submit, subject - refer for judgment or consideration; "She submitted a proposal to the agency"
--₄ is one way to refer
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something to somebody