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Sounds | sahbjheh'kt; sah'bjhihkt |
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Rhymes | abject, affect, aftereffect, and 64 more rhymes in ehkt at the HyperDic website... |
addict, afflict, benedict / Benedict, and 21 more rhymes in ihkt at the HyperDic website... |
Meaning | Not exempt from tax. |
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Examples | "the gift will be subject to taxation" |
Similar to | taxable, nonexempt |
Meaning | possibly accepting or permitting. |
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Examples | "the time is fixed by the director and players and therefore subject to much variation" |
Synonyms | capable, open |
Similar to | susceptible |
Meaning | Under the power or sovereignty of another or others. |
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Examples | "subject peoples" |
Synonyms | dependent |
Similar to | subordinate |
Meaning | The subject matter of a conversation or discussion. |
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Examples | "he didn't want to discuss that subject" |
Synonyms | topic, theme |
Narrower | bone of contention; precedent; question, head; keynote |
Broader | message, content, subject matter, substance |
Meaning | Some situation or event that is thought about. |
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Examples | "he had been thinking about the subject for several years" |
Synonyms | topic, issue, matter |
Narrower | blind spot; res judicata, res adjudicata; area |
Broader | content, cognitive content, mental object |
Meaning | A branch of knowledge. |
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Examples | "teachers should be well trained in their subject" |
Synonyms | discipline, subject area, subject field, field, field of study, study, bailiwick, branch of knowledge |
Narrower | occultism; communications, communication theory; major; frontier; allometry; bibliotics; ology; science, scientific discipline; architecture; engineering, engineering science, applied science, technology; futurology, futuristics; humanistic discipline, humanities, liberal arts, arts; theology, divinity; military science; numerology; protology; theogony |
Broader | knowledge domain, knowledge base |
Meaning | Something (a person or object or scene) selected by an artist or photographer for graphic representation. |
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Examples | "a moving picture of a train is more dramatic than a still picture of the same subject" |
Synonyms | content, depicted object |
Part of | scene, view |
Broader | thing |
Meaning | A person who is subjected to experimental or other observational procedures. Someone who is an object of investigation. |
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Examples | "the subjects for this investigation were selected randomly" |
Synonyms | case, guinea pig |
Broader | person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, human, soul |
Meaning | A person who owes allegiance to that nation. |
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Examples | "a monarch has a duty to his subjects" |
Synonyms | national |
Member of | nation, land, country, a people |
Narrower | citizen; compatriot; patriot, nationalist |
Broader | person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, human, soul |
Verbs | subject |
Meaning | (grammar) one of the two main constituents of a sentence. The grammatical constituent about which something is predicated. |
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Category | grammar |
Broader | constituent, grammatical constituent |
Meaning | (logic) the first term of a proposition. |
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Category | logic |
Broader | term |
Meaning | Cause to experience or suffer or make liable or vulnerable to. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody PP; Somebody ----s something PP |
Examples | "He subjected me to his awful poetry"; "The sergeant subjected the new recruits to many drills"; "People in Chernobyl were subjected to radiation" |
Cause to | experience, undergo, see, go through |
Narrower | bacterize, bacterise; vitriol; put; shipwreck; refract; expose; expose; incur |
Broader | affect, impact, bear upon, bear on, touch on, touch |
Meaning | Make accountable for. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody |
Examples | "He did not want to subject himself to the judgments of his superiors" |
Broader | submit |
Meaning | Make subservient. Force to submit or subdue. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody |
Synonyms | subjugate |
Narrower | dragoon; enslave |
Broader | dominate, master |
Nouns | subjection; subjection; subject |
Meaning | Refer for judgment or consideration. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s something to somebody |
Synonyms | submit |
Narrower | give; return; relegate, pass on, submit |
Broader | refer |