Index of English words, starting with "su"

(1) - Subject (a.) That in which any quality, attribute, or relation, whether spiritual or material, inheres, or to which any of these appertain; substance; substratum.
(2) - Subject (a.) Placed under the power of another; specifically (International Law), owing allegiance to a particular sovereign or state; as, Jamaica is subject to Great Britain.
(3) - Subject (a.) Exposed; liable; prone; disposed; as, a country subject to extreme heat; men subject to temptation.
(4) - Subject (a.) Obedient; submissive.
(5) - Subject (a.) That which is placed under the authority, dominion, control, or influence of something else.
(6) - Subject (a.) 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.
(7) - Subject (a.) That which is subjected, or submitted to, any physical operation or process; specifically (Anat.), a dead body used for the purpose of dissection.
(8) - Subject (a.) That which is brought under thought or examination; that which is taken up for discussion, or concerning which anything is said or done.
(9) - Subject (a.) Placed or situated under; lying below, or in a lower situation.
(10) - Subject (a.) 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.
(11) - Subject (v. t.) To cause to undergo; as, to subject a substance to a white heat; to subject a person to a rigid test.
(12) - Subject (a.) 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.
(13) - Subject (n.) The principal theme, or leading thought or phrase, on which a composition or a movement is based.
(14) - Subject (n.) The incident, scene, figure, group, etc., which it is the aim of the artist to represent.
(15) - Subject (v. t.) To bring under control, power, or dominion; to make subject; to subordinate; to subdue.
(16) - Subject (v. t.) To expose; to make obnoxious or liable; as, credulity subjects a person to impositions.
(17) - Subject (v. t.) To submit; to make accountable.
(18) - Subject (v. t.) To make subservient.
(19) - Subject (a.) The person who is treated of; the hero of a piece; the chief character.

(1) - Subjection (a.) The state of being subject, or under the power, control, and government of another; a state of obedience or submissiveness; as, the safety of life, liberty, and property depends on our subjection to the laws.
(2) - Subjection (a.) The act of subjecting, or of bringing under the dominion of another; the act of subduing.

(1) - Subjective (a.) Modified by, or making prominent, the individuality of a writer or an artist; as, a subjective drama or painting; a subjective writer.
(2) - Subjective (a.) Especially, pertaining to, or derived from, one's own consciousness, in distinction from external observation; ralating to the mind, or intellectual world, in distinction from the outward or material excessively occupied with, or brooding over, one's own internal states.
(3) - Subjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a subject.