ˈbeɪ.lɪ.wɪk ˈkeɪpəbl̩ ˈkɔn.tɛnt dɪˈpɛndənt ˈdɪ.sə.plɪn fiːld fild ˈɡɪni pɪɡ ˈɪsjuː ˈɪʃ(j)u ˈmætə ˈmætɚ ˈnaʃn̩(ə)l ˈnæʃən(ə)l ˈsʌb.dʒɛkt ˈsʌb.dʒɛkt səbˈdʒɛkt ˈsʌbdʒuɡeɪt ˈsʌbdʒəɡeɪt θiːm ˈtɒpɪk ˈtɑpɪk likely to be affected by something the bond is subject to taxation he is subject to fits of depression make accountable for He did not want to subject himself to the judgments of his superiors 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 being under the power or sovereignty of another or others subject peoples a dependent prince 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 make subservient; force to submit or subdue 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 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 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 (grammar) one of the two main constituents of a sentence; the grammatical constituent about which something is predicated (logic) the first term of a proposition 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 a person who owes allegiance to that nation a monarch has a duty to his subjects 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