Subject 53523 221647145 2008-06-25T13:12:10Z Aesopos 3138216 {{Wiktionary|subject}} '''Subject''' may refer to: *An area of interest, also called a "[[topic]]" meaning ,"thing you are talking or discussing about ."It can also be termed as the area of discussion . ''See [[Lists of topics]] and [[Lists of basic topics]].'' **An area of [[knowledge]]; **The focus of a [[Course (education)|course of study]] or of a [[Class (education)|class]] at school; **The focus of a [[List of academic disciplines|field of study]]; *[[subject (grammar)]], one of two main constituents of a sentence. **[[subject case]], grammatical case for a noun (nominative case); *[[subject (philosophy)]], being which has experiences or a relationship with another entity or "object". *The ''subiectum'' or ''[[hypokeimenon]]'' in philosophical idealism. *[[research subject]], organism (human or otherwise) that is observed for purposes of research; **[[human subject research]] (HSR), use of human beings as research subjects; **[[subject-expectancy effect]], in science experiments, bias by subjects toward the expected results; *What a discourse or a document is about (See [[Subject (discourse)]]). *A '''person''' or entity ruled over by another, especially a [[monarch]] or state authority: **subject, in [[autocracy]], a [[serf]] in [[feudal]] society; **[[British subject]], term concerning British nationality; **generally, [[citizen]] of a nation where there is no separate legal definition of ''subject''; **[[subject of the state]], person who did not qualify for full citizenship in Nazi Germany; *[[federal subject]], the basic subdivision of the [[Russia|Russian]] Federation. Each federal subject is a constituent region of the federation. *[[subject of international law]], nations and organizations that participate in the "law of nations". '''Subject''' may also be: *An element in the method of modeling information called [[Resource Description Framework]] *[[Subject heading]], standardized set of subject headings for use in bibliographic records *[[subject of labor]], concept in Marxist political economy that refers to "everything to which man's labor is directed." *[[subject term]], essence of the topic of a document (also '''index term''' or '''descriptor''') in Information Retrieval *[[subjects (programming)]], core elements in the subject-oriented programming paradigm *In music, the first melodic fragment of a [[fugue]] in '''culture''': *[[Subject (album)]], 2003 debut album by R&B singer Dwele *[[The Subject Bible]], edition of the King James Bible including a topical Bible *[[Subject-object based metaphysics]], author Robert M. Pirsig's term for the dominant view of metaphysics in Western philosophy. *[[subject-object problem]], philosophical issue of how subjects relate to objects. *[[Subject-Subject Consciousness]], concept proposed by Harry Hay *The Upajjhatthana Sutta ("[[Subjects for Contemplation]]"), Buddhist discourse Each an every topic you may talk about is taken as the subject . ==See also== *[[Subject (discourse)]] *[[Subject matter]] *[[Subjective]] {{disambig}} [[da:Subjekt]] [[de:Subjekt]] [[fa:فاعل]] [[fa:موضوع]] [[fr:Sujet]] [[it:Soggetto]] [[nl:Onderwerp]] [[no:Subjekt]] [[ja:主体]] [[ru:Субъект (значения)]] [[sq:Subjekti]] [[sk:Subjekt]] [[fi:Subjekti]] [[sv:Subjekt]]