0 the thing that is being discussed, considered, or studied: --
The number of planes flying over the town has been the subject of (= has caused) concern since last summer.
The guest lecturer took as her subject (= decided to speak about) "punishment and imprisonment in modern society".
She has made a series of documentaries on the subject of family relationships.
Our subject for discussion is homelessness.
1 an area of knowledge that is studied in school, college, or university: --
2 a person, thing, or situation that is written about in a book, article, etc. or shown in a picture, etc.: --
The mill by the bridge was the subject of an unfinished painting by J. M. W. Turner.
3 the person or thing that performs the action of a verb, or is joined to a description by a verb: --
4 a person who lives in or who has the right to live in a particular country, especially a country with a king or queen: --
He is a British subject.
5 to defeat people or a country and then control them against their wishes and limit their freedom: --
Such regularities in conversations are the subject matter of sociolinguistics - the study of how social settings and roles influence language use.
The same pronoun is used for both masculine and feminine individuals and for subject and object case roles.
Their only pleasures are drink and tobacco, the former being subjected to temperance campaigns to remove even this form of recreation from the workers' lives.
Among the subjects who were depressed in the initial interview, 34% had recovered, 39% were depressed and 27% were dead.
In both of these situations, social subjects enact authentication by historicizing their identities through claims of linguistic continuity with a valued past.
Correspondingly, adult subjects do not favor the correct parabolic trajectory over other paths.
These were replaced by the next highest reading time for that subject in that condition and at that position.
Only nine subjects actively refused to participate in the study; the others were lost to follow-up or failed to return the consent form.
