Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter S - Page 183
Subordinate (v. t.) To make subject; to subject or subdue; as, to subordinate the passions to reason. -- Sub*or"di*nate*ly, adv. -- Sub*or"di*nate*ness, n.
Dependent (a.) Hanging down; as, a dependent bough or leaf.
Dependent (a.) Relying on, or subject to, something else for support; not able to exist, or sustain itself, or to perform anything, without the will, power, or aid of something else; not self-sustaining; subordinate; -- often with on or upon; as, dependent on God; dependent upon friends. Opposite of independent. [Narrower terms: interdependent, mutualist, mutually beneficial; parasitic, parasitical, leechlike, bloodsucking; subordinate; underage; myrmecophilous; symbiotic] Also See: unfree.
England, long dependent and degraded, was again a power of the first rank. -- Macaulay.
Dependent (a.) Conditional; contingent or conditioned. Opposite of unconditional.
Syn: qualified.
Dependent (a.) Addicted to drugs.
Syn: addicted, dependent, drug-addicted, hooked, strung-out.
Dependent covenant or Dependent contract (Law), One not binding until some connecting stipulation is performed.
Dependent variable (Math.), A varying quantity whose changes are arbitrary, but are regarded as produced by changes in another variable, which is called the independent variable.
Subordinate (a.) Lower in rank or importance [syn: subordinate, low-level] [ant: dominant].
Subordinate (a.) Subject or submissive to authority or the control of another; "a subordinate kingdom" [ant: insubordinate].
Subordinate (a.) (Of a clause) Unable to stand alone syntactically as a complete sentence; "a subordinate (or dependent) clause functions as a noun or adjective or adverb within a sentence" [syn: dependent, subordinate] [ant: independent, main(a)].
Subordinate (n.) An assistant subject to the authority or control of another [syn: subordinate, subsidiary, underling, foot soldier].
Subordinate (n.) A word that is more specific than a given word [syn: hyponym, subordinate, subordinate word].
Subordinate (v.) Rank or order as less important or consider of less value; "Art is sometimes subordinated to Science in these schools."
Subordinate (v.) Make subordinate, dependent, or subservient; "Our wishes have to be subordinated to that of our ruler" [syn: subordinate, subdue].
Subordination (n.) 放置在下級，使隸屬，看不起 The act of subordinating, placing in a lower order, or subjecting.
Subordination (n.) The quality or state of being subordinate or inferior to an other; inferiority of rank or dignity; subjection.
Natural creature having a local subordination. -- Holyday.
Subordination (n.) Place of inferior rank.
Persons who in their several subordinations would be obliged to follow the example of their superiors. -- Swift.
Subordination (n.) The state of being subordinate to something.
Subordination (n.) The semantic relation of being subordinate or belonging to a lower rank or class [syn: {hyponymy}, {subordination}].
Subordination (n.) The grammatical relation of a modifying word or phrase to its head.
Subordination (n.) The quality of obedient submissiveness [ant: {insubordination}].
Subordination (n.) The act of mastering or subordinating someone [syn:. {mastery}, {subordination}]
Subordinative (a.) Tending to subordinate; expressing subordination; used to introduce a subordinate sentence; as, a subordinative conjunction.
Subordinative (a.) Serving to connect a subordinate clause to a main clause; "`when' in `I will come when I can' is a subordinating conjunction" [syn: subordinating(a), subordinative] [ant: coordinating(a), coordinative].
Suborned (imp. & p. p.) of Suborn.
Suborning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Suborn.
Suborn (v. t.) (Law) To procure or cause to take a false oath amounting to perjury, such oath being actually taken. --Sir W. O. Russell.
Suborn (v. t.) To procure privately, or by collusion; to procure by indirect means; to incite secretly; to instigate.
Thou art suborned against his honor. -- Shak.
Those who by despair suborn their death. -- Dryden.
Suborn (v.) Incite to commit a crime or an evil deed; "He suborned his butler to cover up the murder of his wife."
Suborn (v.) Procure (false testimony or perjury)
Suborn (v.) Induce to commit perjury or give false testimony; "The President tried to suborn false witnesses."
Subornation (n.) (Law) The act of suborning; the crime of procuring a person to take such a false oath as constitutes perjury.
Subornation (n.) The sin or offense of procuring one to do a criminal or bad action, as by bribes or persuasion.
Foul subornation is predominant. -- Shak.
The sort of chicanery attending the subornation of managers in the Leibnitz controversy. -- De Quinsey.
Subornation (n.) Underhandedly or improperly inducing someone to do something improper or unlawful.
Subornation (n.) Perjured testimony that someone was persuaded to give.
Suborner (n.) One who suborns or procures another to take, a false oath; one who procures another to do a bad action.
Suborner (n.) Someone who pays (or otherwise incites) you to commit a wrongful act [syn: briber, suborner].
Suboval (a.) Somewhat oval; nearly oval.
Subovate (a.) Nearly in the form of an egg, or of the section of an egg, but having the inferior extremity broadest; nearly ovate.
Subovated (a.) Subovate. [R.]
Suboxide (n.) (Chem.) An oxide containing a relatively small amount of oxygen, and less than the normal proportion; as, potassium suboxide, K4O.
Subpeduncular (a.) (Anat.) Situated beneath the peduncle; as, the subpeduncular lobe of the cerebellum.
Subpedunculate (a.) (Bot. & Zool.) Supported on, or growing from, a very short stem; having a short peduncle.
Subpellucid (a.) Somewhat pellucid; nearly pellucid.
Compare: Subpoena
Subpoena (n.) (Law) A writ commanding the attendance in court, as a witness, of the person on whom it is served, under a penalty; the process by which a defendant in equity is commanded to appear and answer the plaintiff's bill. [Written also subpena.]
Subpoena ad testificandum. [NL.] A writ used to procure the attendance of a witness for the purpose of testifying.
Subpoena duces tecum. [NL.] A writ which requires a witness to attend and bring certain documents.
Subpena (n. & v. t.) See Subpoena.
Subpentangular (a.) Nearly or approximately pentangular; almost pentangular.
Subpericardial (a.) Situated under the cardiac pericardium.
Subperiosteal (a.) Situated under the periosteum.
Subperitoneal (a.) Situated under the peritoneal membrane.
Subpetiolar (a.) Concealed within the base of the petiole, as the leaf buds of the plane tree.
Subpleural (a.) Situated under the pleural membrane.
Subpodophyllous (a.) Situated under the podophyllous tissue of the horse's foot.
Subpoena (n.) 傳票 A writ commanding the attendance in court, as a witness, of the person on whom it is served, under a penalty; the process by which a defendant in equity is commanded to appear and answer the plaintiff's bill. [Written also {subpena}.]
Subpoenaed (imp. & p. p.) of Subpoena.
Subpoenaing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Subpoena.
Subpoena (v. t.) 傳喚；傳訊 To serve with a writ of subpoena; to command attendance in court by a legal writ, under a penalty in case of disobedience.
Subpoena (n.) A writ issued by court authority to compel the attendance of a witness at a judicial proceeding; disobedience may be punishable as a contempt of court [syn: {subpoena}, {subpoena ad testificandum}].
Subpoena (v.) Serve or summon with a subpoena; "The witness and her records were subpoenaed."
Subpoena (n.) A writ commanding a person designated in it to appear in court under a penalty for failure.
Subpoena (n.) An order issued under the authority of a court, commanding a person to appear in court on a particular date, usually to give testimony in a legal case.
Subpoena (v. t.) (sub·poe·naed, sub·poe·na·ing, sub·poe·nas) To serve or summon with such a writ.
Subpoenal (a.) Required or done under penalty.
Subpolar (a.) Situated below the poles.
Subpolygonal (a.) Approximately polygonal; somewhat or almost polygonal.
Subprehensile (a.) Somewhat prehensile; prehensile in an inferior degree.
Subprior (n.) The vicegerent of a prior; a claustral officer who assists the prior.
Subpubic (a.) Situated under, or posterior to, the pubic bones.
Subpulmonary (a.) Situated under, or on the ventral side of, the lungs.
Subpurchaser (n.) A purchaser who buys from a purchaser; one who buys at second hand.
Subpyriform (a.) Somewhat pyriform.
Subquadrate (a.) Nearly or approximately square; almost square.
Subquadruple (a.) Containing one part of four; in the ratio of one to four; as, subquadruple proportion.
Subquinquefid (a.) Almost quinquefid; nearly quinquefid.
Subquintuple (a.) Having the ratio of one to five; as, subquintuple proportion.
Subreader (n.) An under reader in the inns of court, who reads the texts of law the reader is to discourse upon.
Subrector (n.) An assistant restor.
Subreligion (n.) A secondary religion; a belief or principle held in a quasi religious veneration.
Subreption (n.) The act of obtaining a favor by surprise, or by unfair representation through suppression or fraudulent concealment of facts.
Subreptitious (a.) Surreptitious.
Subreptive (a.) Surreptitious.
Subrigid (a.) Somewhat rigid or stiff.
Subriguous (a.) Watered or wet beneath; well-watered.
Subrogate (v. t.) To put in the place of another; to substitute.
Subrogation (n.) The act of subrogating.
Subrogation (n.) The substitution of one person in the place of another as a creditor, the new creditor succeeding to the rights of the former; the mode by which a third person who pays a creditor succeeds to his rights against the debtor.
Sub rosa (adv.) In confidence : secretly.
Subrotund (a.) Somewhat rotund.
Subsacral (a.) Situated under, or on the ventral side of, the sacrum.
Subsaline (a.) Moderately saline or salt.
Subsalt (n.) A basic salt. See the Note under Salt.
Subsannation (n.) Derision; mockery.
Subscapular (a.) Alt. of Subscapulary.
Subscapulary (a.) Situated beneath the scapula; infrascapular; as, the subscapular muscle.
Subscribable (a.) Capable of being subscribed.
Subscribed (imp. & p. p.) of Subscribe.
Subscribing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Subscribe.
Subscribe (v. t.) 捐獻，簽署 To write underneath, as one's name; to sign (one's name) to a document.
Subscribe (v. t.) To sign with one's own hand; to give consent to, as something written, or to bind one's self to the terms of, by writing one's name beneath; as, parties subscribe a covenant or contract; a man subscribes a bond.
Subscribe (v. t.) To attest by writing one's name beneath; as, officers subscribe their official acts, and secretaries and clerks subscribe copies or records.
Subscribe (v. t.) To promise to give, by writing one's name with the amount; as, each man subscribed ten dollars.
Subscribe (v. t.) To sign away; to yield; to surrender.
Subscribe (v. t.) To declare over one's signature; to publish.
Subscribe (v. i.) 贊成，同意，捐款，預訂，認購，簽名，簽字 [（+to）] To sign one's name to a letter or other document.
Subscribe (v. i.) To give consent to something written, by signing one's name; hence, to assent; to agree.
Subscribe (v. i.) To become surely; -- with for.
Subscribe (v. i.) To yield; to admit one's self to be inferior or in the wrong.
Subscribe (v. i.) To set one's name to a paper in token of promise to give a certain sum.
Subscribe (v. i.) To enter one's name for a newspaper, a book, etc.
Subscriber (n.) 簽署者；預訂者；訂閱者 [（+for）]；電話用戶；捐款者，出資者；認購者，承購者 [（+to）] One who subscribes; one who contributes to an undertaking by subscribing.
Subscriber (n.) One who enters his name for a paper, book, map, or the like.
Subscript (a.) 寫在下面的 Written below or underneath; as, iota subscript. (See under Iota.) Specifically (Math.), said of marks, figures, or letters (suffixes), written below and usually to the right of other letters to distinguish them; as, a, n, 2, in the symbols Xa, An, Y2. See Suffix, n., 2, and Subindex.
Subscript (n.) 下標符號 Anything written below.
Subscription (n.) 捐款，認捐 [U] [（+to）]；同意，贊成 [C]；署名 [C]；預訂；訂閱 [U] [C] [（+to）]；認捐額；訂閱費；（俱樂部等的）會費 [C] The act of subscribing.
Subscription (n.) That which is subscribed. Specifically:
Subscription (n.) A paper to which a signature is attached.
Subscription (n.) The signature attached to a paper.
Subscription (n.) Consent or attestation by underwriting the name.
Subscription (n.) Sum subscribed; amount of sums subscribed; as, an individual subscription to a fund.
Subscription (n.) (Eccl.) The acceptance of articles, or other tests tending to promote uniformity; esp. (Ch. of Eng.), formal assent to the Thirty-nine Articles and the Book of Common Prayer, required before ordination.
Subscription (n.) Submission; obedience. [Obs.]
You owe me no subscription. -- Shak.
Subscription (n.) (Pharm.) That part of a prescription which contains the direction to the apothecary.
Subscription (n.) A payment for consecutive issues of a newspaper or magazine for a given period of time.
Subscription (n.) Agreement expressed by (or as if expressed by) signing your Name.
Subscription (n.) A pledged contribution.
Subscription (n.) The act of signing your name; writing your signature (as on a document); "the deed was attested by the subscription of his signature".
Subscription, () contracts. The placing a signature at the bottom of a written or printed engagement; or it is the attestation of a witness by so writing his name; but it has been holden that the attestation of an illiterate witness, by making his mark, is a sufficient subscription. 7 Bing. 457; 2 Ves. 454; Atk. 177; 1 Yes. jr. 11; 3 P. Wms. 253; 1 V. & B. 362. Vide To sign.
Subscription, () By subscription is also understood the act by which a person contracts, in writing, to furnish a sum of money for a particular purpose; as, a subscription to a charitable institution, a subscription for a book, for a newspaper, and the like.
Subscription (n.) A method of purchasing items produced periodically in a series, as newspapers or magazines, in which a certain number of the items are delivered as produced, without need for ordering each item individually; also, the purchase thus executed.
The right to attend a series of public performances of ballet, opera, or music are also often sold by subscription. The payment for a subscription may be made prior to delivery of any items (common with magazines and performances), or after a certain number of the items have been delivered (common with newspapers or works of art produced in a series).
Subscription (n.) An application to purchase a certain number of securities to be delivered when they are newly issued.
Subscriptive (a.) Of or pertaining to a subscription, or signature. "The subscriptive part." -- Richardson. -- Sub*scrip"tive*ly, adv.
Subsecute (v. t.) To follow closely, or so as to overtake; to pursue. [Obs.]
To follow and detain him, if by any possibility he could be subsecuted and overtaken. -- E. Hall.
Subsecutive (a.) Following in a train or succession. [R.]
Subsellia (n. pl. ) of Subsellium.
Subsellium (n.) (Eccl. Arch.) One of the stalls of the lower range where there are two ranges. See Illust. of Stall.
Subsemitone (n.) (Mus.) The sensible or leading note, or sharp seventh, of any key; subtonic.
Compare: Subtonic
Subtonic (n.) (Phonetics) A subtonic sound or element; a vocal consonant, as b, d, g, n, etc.; a subvocal.
Subtonic (n.) (Mus.) The seventh tone of the scale, or that immediately below the tonic; -- called also subsemitone.
Subsensible (a.) Deeper than the reach of the senses. "That subsensible world." -- Tyndall.
Subseptuple (a.) Having the ratio of one to seven. -- Bp. Wilkins.
Subsequence (n.) Alt. of Subsequency.