Word Meaning

Meaning of "subjects" and the crossword clue

- Answerable
- Conditional
- Liable
- Object
- Predominant theme or topic
- Theme of a book
- Topic
- University course for artist’s model
- Kingdom's nationals
- Kingdom’s nationals
- Monarchy’s citizens
- Placed or situated under; lying below, or in a lower situation.
- Placed under the power of another; specifically (International Law), owing allegiance to a particular sovereign or state; as, Jamaica is subject to Great Britain.
- Exposed; liable; prone; disposed; as, a country subject to extreme heat; men subject to temptation.
- Obedient; submissive.
- That which is placed under the authority, dominion, control, or influence of something else.
- 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.
- That which is subjected, or submitted to, any physical operation or process; specifically (Anat.), a dead body used for the purpose of dissection.
- That which is brought under thought or examination; that which is taken up for discussion, or concerning which anything is said or done.
- The person who is treated of; the hero of a piece; the chief character.
- 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.
- That in which any quality, attribute, or relation, whether spiritual or material, inheres, or to which any of these appertain; substance; substratum.
- 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.
- The principal theme, or leading thought or phrase, on which a composition or a movement is based.
- The incident, scene, figure, group, etc., which it is the aim of the artist to represent.
- To bring under control, power, or dominion; to make subject; to subordinate; to subdue.
- To expose; to make obnoxious or liable; as, credulity subjects a person to impositions.
- To submit; to make accountable.
- To make subservient.
- To cause to undergo; as, to subject a substance to a white heat; to subject a person to a rigid test.