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subjects

subjects

Subject may refer to:

An area of interest, also called a "topic" meaning ,"thing you ar 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 field of study
- The focus of a course of study or of a class at school
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"
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

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
- subject of the state, person who did not qualify for full citizenship in Nazi Germany
- generally, citizen of a nation where there is no separate legal definition of subject

subject of international law, nations and organizations that participate in the "law of nations"
federal subject, the basic subdivision of the Russian Federation. Each federal subject is a constituent region of the federation.

Subject may also be:

An element in the method of modeling information called Resource Description Framework
subjects (programming), core elements in the subject-oriented programming paradigm
subject term, essence of the topic of a document (also index term or descriptor) in Information Retrieval
subject of labor, concept in Marxist political economy that refers to "everything to which man's labor is directed."
Subject heading, standardized set of subject headings for use in bibliographic records
In music, the first melodic fragment of a fugue

in culture:

Subject (album), 2003 debut album by R&B singer Dwele
The Upajjhatthana Sutta ("Subjects for Contemplation"), Buddhist discourse
The Subject Bible, edition of the King James Bible including a topical Bible
subject-object problem, philosophical issue of how subjects relate to objects.
Subject-Subject Consciousness, concept proposed by Harry Hay
Subject-object based metaphysics, author Robert M. Pirsig's term for the dominant view of metaphysics in Western philosophy.

Each an every topic you may talk about is taken as the subject .