Text vs. Subject — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Text and Subject
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Text
A book or other written or printed work, regarded in terms of its content rather than its physical form
A text which explores pain and grief
Subject
A person or thing that is being discussed, described, or dealt with
I've said all there is to be said on the subject
He's the subject of a major new biography
Text
The main body of a book or other piece of writing, as distinct from other material such as notes, appendices, and illustrations
The pictures are clear and relate well to the text
Subject
A branch of knowledge studied or taught in a school, college, or university
Maths is not my best subject
Text
A written work chosen or set as a subject of study
Too much concentration on set texts can turn pupils against reading
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Subject
A member of a state other than its ruler, especially one owing allegiance to a monarch or other supreme ruler
The legislation is applicable only to British subjects
Text
A text message
Just give us a call or send us a text
Subject
A noun or noun phrase functioning as one of the main components of a clause, being the element about which the rest of the clause is predicated.
Text
Fine, large handwriting, used especially for manuscripts.
Subject
A thinking or feeling entity; the conscious mind; the ego, especially as opposed to anything external to the mind.
Text
Send (someone) a text message
If she was going to go she would have texted us
Subject
Likely or prone to be affected by (a particular condition or occurrence, typically an unwelcome or unpleasant one)
He was subject to bouts of manic depression
Text
The original words of something written or printed, as opposed to a paraphrase, translation, revision, or condensation.
Subject
Dependent or conditional upon
The proposed merger is subject to the approval of the shareholders
Text
The words of a speech appearing in print.
Subject
Under the authority of
Ministers are subject to the laws of the land
Text
Words, as of a libretto, that are set to music in a composition.
Subject
Conditionally upon
Subject to the EC's agreement, we intend to set up an enterprise zone in the area
Text
Words treated as data by a computer.
Subject
Cause or force someone or something to undergo (a particular experience or form of treatment, typically an unwelcome or unpleasant one)
He'd subjected her to a terrifying ordeal
Text
A text message.
Subject
Bring (a person or country) under one's control or jurisdiction, typically by using force
The city had been subjected to Macedonian rule
Text
The body of a printed work as distinct from headings and illustrative matter on a page or from front and back matter in a book.
Subject
Being in a position or in circumstances that place one under the power or authority of another or others
Subject to the law.
Text
One of the editions or forms of a written work
After examining all three manuscripts, he published a new text of the poem.
Subject
Prone; disposed
A child who is subject to colds.
Text
Something, such as a literary work or other cultural product, regarded as an object of critical analysis.
Subject
Likely to incur or receive; exposed
A directive subject to misinterpretation.
Text
A passage from the Scriptures or another authoritative source chosen for the subject of a discourse or cited for support in argument.
Subject
Contingent or dependent
A vacation subject to changing weather.
Text
A passage from a written work used as the starting point of a discussion.
Subject
One who is under the rule of another or others, especially one who owes allegiance to a government or ruler.
Text
A subject; a topic.
Subject
One concerning which something is said or done; a person or thing being discussed or dealt with
A subject of gossip.
Text
A textbook.
Subject
Something that is treated or indicated in a work of art.
Text
To send a text message to
She texted me when she arrived at the airport.
Subject
(Music) A theme of a composition, especially a fugue.
Text
To communicate by text message
He texted that he would be late.
Subject
A course or area of study
Math is her best subject.
Text
To key or send text messages
She was texting in class and missed what was said.
Subject
A basis for action; a cause.
Text
A writing consisting of multiple glyphs, characters, symbols or sentences.
Subject
One that experiences or is subjected to something
The subject of ridicule.
Text
A book, tome or other set of writings.
Subject
A person or animal that is the object of medical or scientific study
The experiment involved 12 subjects.
Text
(colloquial) A brief written message transmitted between mobile phones.
Subject
A corpse intended for anatomical study and dissection.
Text
(computing) Data which can be interpreted as human-readable text.
Plain text
Subject
One who is under surveillance
The subject was observed leaving the scene of the murder.
Text
A verse or passage of Scripture, especially one chosen as the subject of a sermon, or in proof of a doctrine.
Subject
(Grammar) The noun, noun phrase, or pronoun in a sentence or clause that denotes the doer of the action or what is described by the predicate.
Text
(by extension) Anything chosen as the subject of an argument, literary composition, etc.
Subject
(Logic) The term of a proposition about which something is affirmed or denied.
Text
(printing) A style of writing in large characters; also, a kind of type used in printing.
German text
Subject
The mind or thinking part as distinguished from the object of thought.
Text
(transitive) To send a text message to; i.e. to transmit text using the Short Message Service (SMS), or a similar service, between communications devices, particularly mobile phones.
Just text me when you get here.
I'll text the address to you as soon as I find it.
Subject
A being that undergoes personal conscious or unconscious experience of itself and of the world.
Text
(intransitive) To send and receive text messages.
Have you been texting all afternoon?
Subject
The essential nature or substance of something as distinguished from its attributes.
Text
(dated) To write in large characters, as in text hand.
Subject
To cause to experience, undergo, or be acted upon
Suspects subjected to interrogation.
Rocks subjected to intense pressure.
Text
A discourse or composition on which a note or commentary is written; the original words of an author, in distinction from a paraphrase, annotation, or commentary.
Subject
To subjugate; subdue.
Text
The four Gospels, by way of distinction or eminence.
Subject
To submit to the authority of
Peoples that subjected themselves to the emperor.
Text
A verse or passage of Scripture, especially one chosen as the subject of a sermon, or in proof of a doctrine.
How oft, when Paul has served us with a text,Has Epictetus, Plato, Tully, preached!
Subject
Likely to be affected by or to experience something.
A country subject to extreme heat
Menu listings and prices are subject to change.
He's subject to sneezing fits.
Text
Hence, anything chosen as the subject of an argument, literary composition, or the like; topic; theme.
Subject
Conditional upon something; used with to.
The local board sets local policy, subject to approval from the State Board.
Text
A style of writing in large characters; text-hand also, a kind of type used in printing; as, German text.
Subject
Placed or situated under; lying below, or in a lower situation.
Text
That part of a document (printed or electronic) comprising the words, especially the main body of expository words, in contrast to the illustrations, pictures, charts, tables, or other formatted material which contain graphic elements as a major component.
Subject
Placed under the power of another; owing allegiance to a particular sovereign or state.
Text
Any communication composed of words.
Subject
(grammar) In a clause: the word or word group (usually a noun phrase) about whom the statement is made. In active clauses with verbs denoting an action, the subject and the actor are usually the same.
In the sentence ‘The cat ate the mouse’, ‘the cat’ is the subject, ‘the mouse’ being the object.
Text
A textbook.
Subject
An actor; one who takes action.
The subjects and objects of power.
Text
To write in large characters, as in text hand.
Subject
The main topic of a paper, work of art, discussion, field of study, etc.
Text
The words of something written;
There were more than a thousand words of text
They handed out the printed text of the mayor's speech
He wants to reconstruct the original text
Subject
A particular area of study.
Her favorite subject is physics.
Text
A passage from the Bible that is used as the subject of a sermon;
The preacher chose a text from Psalms to introduce his sermon
Subject
A citizen in a monarchy.
I am a British subject.
Text
A book prepared for use in schools or colleges;
His economics textbook is in its tenth edition
The professor wrote the text that he assigned students to buy
Subject
A person ruled over by another, especially a monarch or state authority.
Text
The main body of a written work (as distinct from illustrations or footnotes etc.);
Pictures made the text easier to understand
Subject
(music) The main theme or melody, especially in a fugue.
Subject
A human, animal or an inanimate object that is being examined, treated, analysed, etc.
Subject
(philosophy) A being that has subjective experiences, subjective consciousness, or a relationship with another entity.
Subject
(logic) That of which something is stated.
Subject
(math) The variable in terms of which an expression is defined.
0, we have x
Subject
To cause (someone or something) to undergo a particular experience, especially one that is unpleasant or unwanted.
I came here to buy souvenirs, not to be subjected to a tirade of abuse!
Subject
(transitive) To make subordinate or subservient; to subdue or enslave.
Subject
Placed or situated under; lying below, or in a lower situation.
Subject
Placed under the power of another; specifically (International Law), owing allegiance to a particular sovereign or state; as, Jamaica is subject to Great Britain.
Esau was never subject to Jacob.
Subject
Exposed; liable; prone; disposed; as, a country subject to extreme heat; men subject to temptation.
All human things are subject to decay.
Subject
Obedient; submissive.
Put them in mind to be subject to principalities.
Subject
That which is placed under the authority, dominion, control, or influence of something else.
Subject
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.
Was never subject longed to be a king,As I do long and wish to be a subject.
The subject must obey his prince, because God commands it, human laws require it.
Subject
That which is subjected, or submitted to, any physical operation or process; specifically (Anat.), a dead body used for the purpose of dissection.
Subject
That which is brought under thought or examination; that which is taken up for discussion, or concerning which anything is said or done.
Make choice of a subject, beautiful and noble, which . . . shall afford an ample field of matter wherein to expatiate.
The unhappy subject of these quarrels.
Subject
The person who is treated of; the hero of a piece; the chief character.
Writers of particular lives . . . are apt to be prejudiced in favor of their subject.
Subject
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.
The subject of a proposition is that concerning which anything is affirmed or denied.
Subject
That in which any quality, attribute, or relation, whether spiritual or material, inheres, or to which any of these appertain; substance; substratum.
That which manifests its qualities - in other words, that in which the appearing causes inhere, that to which they belong - is called their subject or substance, or substratum.
Subject
The principal theme, or leading thought or phrase, on which a composition or a movement is based.
The earliest known form of subject is the ecclesiastical cantus firmus, or plain song.
Subject
The incident, scene, figure, group, etc., which it is the aim of the artist to represent.
Subject
To bring under control, power, or dominion; to make subject; to subordinate; to subdue.
Firmness of mind that subjects every gratification of sense to the rule of right reason.
In one short view subjected to our eye,Gods, emperors, heroes, sages, beauties, lie.
He is the most subjected, the most nslaved, who is so in his understanding.
Subject
To expose; to make obnoxious or liable; as, credulity subjects a person to impositions.
Subject
To submit; to make accountable.
God is not bound to subject his ways of operation to the scrutiny of our thoughts.
Subject
To make subservient.
Subjected to his service angel wings.
Subject
To cause to undergo; as, to subject a substance to a white heat; to subject a person to a rigid test.
Subject
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
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
Subject
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
Subject
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
Subject
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
Subject
A person who owes allegiance to that nation;
A monarch has a duty to his subjects
Subject
(grammar) one of the two main constituents of a sentence; the grammatical constituent about which something is predicated
Subject
(logic) the first term of a proposition
Subject
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
Subject
Make accountable for;
He did not want to subject himself to the judgments of his superiors
Subject
Make subservient; force to submit or subdue
Subject
Refer for judgment or consideration;
She submitted a proposal to the agency
Subject
Not exempt from tax;
The gift will be subject to taxation
Subject
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
Subject
Being under the power or sovereignty of another or others;
Subject peoples
A dependent prince
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