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subject
A	noun
	1	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"
		Category Tree: entity ╚thing ╚subject, content, depicted object
	2	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"
		Category Tree: psychological feature ╚cognition; knowledge; noesis ╚content; cognitive content; mental object ╚topic, subject, issue, matter ╚area ╚res judicata; res adjudicata ╚blind spot
	3	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"
		Category Tree: psychological feature ╚cognition; knowledge; noesis ╚content; cognitive content; mental object ╚knowledge domain; knowledge base ╚discipline, subject, subject area, subject field, field, field of study, study, bailiwick, branch of knowledge ╚futurology; futuristics ╚engineering; engineering science; applied science; technology ╚architecture ╚science; scientific discipline ╚ology ╚bibliotics ╚allometry ╚frontier ╚major ╚communications; communication theory ╚occultism
	4	subject
			(grammar) one of the two main constituents of a sentence; the grammatical constituent about which something is predicated
		Category Tree: group; grouping ╚arrangement ╚ordering; order; ordination ╚series ╚sequence ╚string ╚string of words; word string; linguistic string ╚syntagma; syntagm ╚constituent; grammatical constituent ╚subject
	5	subject
			(logic) the first term of a proposition
		Category Tree: group; grouping ╚arrangement ╚ordering; order; ordination ╚series ╚sequence ╚string ╚string of words; word string; linguistic string ╚syntagma; syntagm ╚constituent; grammatical constituent ╚term ╚subject
	6	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"
		Category Tree: abstraction ╚relation ╚social relation ╚communication ╚message; content; subject matter; substance ╚subject, topic, theme ╚keynote ╚question; head ╚precedent ╚bone of contention
	7	national, subject
			a person who owes allegiance to that nation; "a monarch has a duty to his subjects"
		Category Tree: entity ╚object; physical object ╚living thing; animate thing ╚organism; being ╚person; individual; someone; somebody; mortal; human; soul ╚national, subject ╚patriot; nationalist ╚compatriot ╚citizen
	8	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"
		Category Tree: entity ╚object; physical object ╚living thing; animate thing ╚organism; being ╚person; individual; someone; somebody; mortal; human; soul ╚subject, case, guinea pig
B	verb
	1	submit, subject
			refer for judgment or consideration; "She submitted a proposal to the agency"
		Category Tree: move; displace ╚send; direct ╚refer ╚submit, subject ╚relegate; pass on; submit ╚return ╚give
	2	subject
			make accountable for; "He did not want to subject himself to the judgments of his superiors"
		Category Tree: submit ╚subject
	3	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"
		Category Tree: change; alter; modify ╚affect; impact; bear upon; bear on; touch on; touch ╚subject ╚incur ╚expose ╚expose ╚refract ╚shipwreck ╚put ╚vitriol ╚bacterize; bacterise
	4	subjugate, subject
			make subservient; force to submit or subdue
		Category Tree: control; command ╚dominate; master ╚subjugate, subject ╚enslave ╚dragoon
C	adjective
	1	subject, dependent
			being under the power or sovereignty of another or others; "subject peoples"; "a dependent prince"

	2	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"

	3	subject(p)
			not exempt from tax; "the gift will be subject to taxation"

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