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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  subject
      adj 1: 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" [syn:
             {capable}, {open}, {subject}]
      2: being under the power or sovereignty of another or others;
         "subject peoples"; "a dependent prince" [syn: {subject},
         {dependent}]
      3: likely to be affected by something; "the bond is subject to
         taxation"; "he is subject to fits of depression"
      n 1: 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" [syn: {subject}, {topic}, {theme}]
      2: 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" [syn: {subject}, {content}, {depicted object}]
      3: 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" [syn:
         {discipline}, {subject}, {subject area}, {subject field},
         {field}, {field of study}, {study}, {bailiwick}]
      4: 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"
         [syn: {topic}, {subject}, {issue}, {matter}]
      5: (grammar) one of the two main constituents of a sentence; the
         grammatical constituent about which something is predicated
      6: 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" [syn: {subject}, {case},
         {guinea pig}]
      7: a person who owes allegiance to that nation; "a monarch has a
         duty to his subjects" [syn: {national}, {subject}]
      8: (logic) the first term of a proposition
      v 1: 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"
      2: make accountable for; "He did not want to subject himself to
         the judgments of his superiors"
      3: make subservient; force to submit or subdue [syn:
         {subjugate}, {subject}]
      4: refer for judgment or consideration; "The lawyers submitted
         the material to the court" [syn: {submit}, {subject}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.