Subject (link=no "lying beneath") may refer to:
Philosophy
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Hypokeimenon, or subiectum, in metaphysics, the "internal", non-objective being of a thing
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Subject (philosophy), a being that has subjective experiences, subjective consciousness, or a relationship with another entity
Linguistics
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Subject (grammar), who or what a sentence or a clause is about
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Subject case or nominative case, one of the grammatical cases for a noun
Music
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Subject (music), or 'theme'
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The melodic material presented first in a fugue
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Either of the two main groups of themes (first subject, second subject), in sonata form
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Subject (album), a 2003 album by Dwele
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Subjects (album), a 2021 album by Scale the Summit
Science and technology
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The individual, whether an adult person, a child or infant, or an animal, who is the subject of research.
Computing
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Subjects (programming), core elements in the subject-oriented programming paradigm
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Subject (access control)
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An element in the Resource Description Framework
Library science and information science
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Subject (documents) (subject classification; subject indexing; subject searching)
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Subject term or index term, a descriptor of a document used in bibliographic records
Other uses
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Commoner, an individual subjected to rule by an elite, e.g. in feudalism
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Subject in a modern constitutional monarchy, e.g. British subject
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Course (education), a unit of academic instruction
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Subject, a 2022 documentary about documentaries by Jennifer Tiexiera
See also
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Subject matter (disambiguation)
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Subjective (disambiguation)