(a.) Placed or situated under; lying below, or in a lower situation.
(a.) Placed under the power of another; specifically (International Law), owing allegiance to a particular sovereign or state; as, Jamaica is subject to Great Britain.
(a.) Exposed; liable; prone; disposed; as, a country subject to extreme heat; men subject to temptation.
(a.) Obedient; submissive.
(a.) That which is placed under the authority, dominion, control, or influence of something else.
(a.) 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.
(a.) That which is subjected, or submitted to, any physical operation or process; specifically (Anat.), a dead body used for the purpose of dissection.
(a.) That which is brought under thought or examination; that which is taken up for discussion, or concerning which anything is said or done.
(a.) The person who is treated of; the hero of a piece; the chief character.
(a.) 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.
(a.) That in which any quality, attribute, or relation, whether spiritual or material, inheres, or to which any of these appertain; substance; substratum.
(a.) Hence, that substance or being which is conscious of its own operations; the mind; the thinking agent or principal; the ego. Cf. Object, n., 2.
(n.) The principal theme, or leading thought or phrase, on which a composition or a movement is based.
(n.) The incident, scene, figure, group, etc., which it is the aim of the artist to represent.
(v. t.) To bring under control, power, or dominion; to make subject; to subordinate; to subdue.
(v. t.) To expose; to make obnoxious or liable; as, credulity subjects a person to impositions.
(v. t.) To submit; to make accountable.
(v. t.) To make subservient.
(v. t.) To cause to undergo; as, to subject a substance to a white heat; to subject a person to a rigid test.
Example Sentences:
(1) The percentage of people with less than 10 TU titers is under 5% after the age of 5 years up to 15 years; from 15 to 60 years there are no subjects with undetectable ASO titer and after this age the percentage is still under 5%.
(2) Such a signal must be due to a small ferromagnetic crystal formed when the nerve is subjected to pressure, such as that due to mechanical injury.
(3) There was appreciable variation in toothbrush wear among subjects, some reducing their brush to a poor state in 2 weeks whereas with others the brush was rated as "good" after 10 weeks.
(4) Coronary arteritis has to be considered as a possible etiology of ischemic symptoms also in subjects who appear affected by typical atherosclerotic ischemic heart disease.
(5) When chimeric animals were subjected to a lethal challenge of endotoxin, their response was markedly altered by the transferred lymphoid cells.
(6) Parents of subjects at the experimental school were visited at home by a community health worker who provided individualized information on dental services and preventive strategies.
(7) All subjects completed the Coping Strategies Questionnaire, which measures the use and perceived effectiveness of a variety of cognitive and behavioral coping strategies in controlling and decreasing pain.
(8) Whether hen's egg yolk can be used as a sperm motility stimulant in the treatment of such conditions as asthenospermia and oligospermia is subjected for further study.
(9) Comparison with 194 age and sex matched subjects, without STD, were chosen as controls.
(10) The 14C-aminopyrine breath test was used to measure liver function in 14 normal subjects, 16 patients with alcoholic cirrhosis, 14 alcoholics without cirrhosis, and 29 patients taking a variety of drugs.
(11) Among the groups investigated, the subjects with gastric tumors presented the greatest values.
(12) In each study, all subjects underwent four replications (over two days) of one of the six permutations of the three experimental conditions; each condition lasted 5 min.
(13) Hoursoglou thinks a shortage of skilled people with a good grounding in core subjects such as maths and science is a potential problem for all manufacturers.
(14) The fate of the inhibited fungus is the subject of this report.
(15) When subjects centered themselves actively, or additionally, contracted trunk flexor or extensor muscles to predetermined levels of activity, no increase in trunk positioning accuracy was found.
(16) Side effect incidence in patients treated with the paracetamol-sobrerol combination (3.7%) was significantly lower than that observed in subjects treated with paracetamol (6.1% - P less than 0.01), salicylics (25.1% - P less than 0.001), pyrazolics (12.6% - P less than 0.001), propionics (20.3%, P less than 0.001) or other antipyretics (17.9% - P less than 0.001).
(17) Although lorazepam and haloperidol produced an equivalent mean decrease in aggression, significantly more subjects who received lorazepam had a greater decrease in aggression ratings than haloperidol recipients; this effect was independent of sedation.
(18) DI James Faulkner of Great Manchester police said: “The men and women working in the factory have told us that they were subjected to physical and verbal assaults at the hands of their employers and forced to work more than 80-hours before ending up with around £25 for their week’s work.
(19) Effects of habitual variations in napping on psychomotor performance, short-term memory and subjective states were investigated.
(20) These results could be explained by altered tissue blood flow and a decreased metabolic capacity of the liver in obese subjects.
Taxable
Definition:
(a.) Capable of being taxed; liable by law to the assessment of taxes; as, taxable estate; taxable commodities.
(a.) That may be legally charged by a court against the plaintiff of defendant in a suit; as, taxable costs.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Tony Abbott lecturing the American president on taxation fairness is, of course, the one who as Australian prime minister is presiding over policies of taxation amnesty for the richest Australians who have themselves offshored their hidden wealth, capping their taxable liability to merely the last four years.
(2) The Double Irish loophole allows US companies, mostly in the technology and pharmaceutical sectors, to reduce their effective tax bill far below Ireland’s already generous 12.5% corporate tax rate by shifting most of their taxable income from an operating company in Ireland to another Irish-registered firm located in an offshore tax haven, such as Bermuda.
(3) It appears that ... the cap [is] used to ensure a relatively predictable level of taxable profit; [it does] not seem to be based on any arm’s length reasoning,” the commission said.
(4) Review negative gearing Federal Labor and the Greens have proposed a rethink of negative gearing, the practice of property investors claiming their losses as a deduction against their taxable income.
(5) Because pension incomes are taxable, and pensioners would have more to spend – generating indirect taxation – and the number of people on social security would be lower, the Exchequer would benefit by between £1.7bn and £3bn.
(6) Both retired and disabled workers whose covered employment began after 1950 were likely to have benefits as high or higher than the benefits of those with earlier credits--a reflection of rising wage levels and higher taxable maximums, as well as the "new start" computation method.
(7) The EU executive will oblige companies to disclose the payments they make at project level as opposed to government level only, revealing the sources of taxable government income from the extraction or logging industries.
(8) Gina Rinehart’s Hancock Prospecting was the country’s largest privately owned taxpayer, paying $466m on a taxable income of $1.5bn in 2015.
(9) Capital allowances enable businesses to cut their tax bill by offsetting a proportion of their spending on equipment and other assets against their taxable profits.
(10) Emerging economies want the rules to be overhauled so that multinational companies are required to apportion their taxable profits according to factors such as where in the world sales are made, where the workforce is located and where capital is invested.
(11) China-Africa trade $114.81 billion: Value of trade between China and Africa (2010) 43.5%: Year-on-year growth in two-way trade (2010) 45: Number of African countries China has signed bilateral trade agreements with $9.33 billion: Amount of Chinese direct investment in Africa by the end of 2009 5,000: Number of scholarships the Chinese government offers to students from African countries each year 4,700: Number of taxable items which China has exempted from tariffs if they come from the least-developed countries in Africa (as of July 2010) 500: Number of infrastructure projects China has provided assistance for in Africa.
(12) Goldsmith’s taxable income since 2010 is more than £6m, the vast majority of which comes from a family trust set up by his billionaire father, Sir James Goldsmith.
(13) MPs found that Revenue and Customs had far fewer resources, particularly in the area of transfer pricing: complex transactions deployed by multinational companies in order to shift taxable profits to low-tax jurisdictions.
(14) That would allow the officials to focus first on agreeing on a common methodology for apportioning taxable profits.
(15) The treasurer, Scott Morrison , is screaming at anyone who will listen that the policy will hit the “mums and dads” while claiming two-thirds of people using negative gearing now have a taxable income of $80,000 or less.
(16) They told voters, if elected, they could collect an additional $45bn in tax by clamping down on foreign multinationals that were aggressively shifting taxable profits out of the US.
(17) ACS welcomed the cut in corporation tax - "but with rising business rates, energy bills and employment costs, the challenge facing local shops is how to make taxable profits in the first place".
(18) The recall was prompted by a Reuters investigation which focused on Google's claim its UK-revenues were not part of a taxable British business.
(19) Expenses met by the Conservative party have varied between £5,105 and £13,149, which have been declared as taxable benefits.
(20) For the city as a whole, between 1998 and 2012, per capita taxable income fell by nearly a third.