Subject vs Abide - What's the difference?
subject | abide |
Likely to be affected by or to experience something.
* Dryden
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Placed or situated under; lying below, or in a lower situation.
Placed under the power of another; owing allegiance to a particular sovereign or state.
* John Locke
(label) In a clause: the word or word group (usually a noun phrase) that is dealt with. In active clauses with verbs denoting an action, the subject and the actor are usually the same.
The main topic of a paper, work of art, discussion, field of study, etc.
* (John Milton) (1608-1674)
* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
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A person ruled over by another, especially a monarch or state authority.
(label) The main theme or melody, especially in a fugue.
* (1823-1895)
A human, animal or an inanimate object that is being examined, treated, analysed, etc.
* (Conyers Middleton) (1683-1750)
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, magazine=(American Scientist), title= To cause (someone or something) to undergo a particular experience, especially one that is unpleasant or unwanted.
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(label) To stay; to continue in a place; to remain stable or fixed in some state or condition; to be left.
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*:Let every man abide in the same calling wherein he was called.
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*:Let the damsel abide with us a few days.
(label) To endure; to remain; to last.
*1998 , Narrator ((Sam Elliot)), The Big Lebowski (film):
*:"The Dude abides ."
(label) To stand ready for; to await for someone; watch for.
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*:Allas sayd she that euer I sawe yow / but he that suffred vpon the crosse for alle mankynde he be vnto yow good conduyte and saufte / and alle the hole felauship / Ryght soo departed Launcelot / & fond his felauship that abode his comyng / and so they mounted on their horses / and rode thorou the strete of Camelot
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*:Bonds and afflictions abide me.
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(label) To endure without yielding; to withstand; await defiantly; to encounter; to persevere.
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(label) To await submissively; accept without question; submit to.
*William Shakespeare, Richard II
*:To abide thy kingly doom.
(label) To bear patiently; to tolerate; to put up with; stand.
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*:She could not abide Master Shallow.
(label) To pay for; to stand the consequences of; to answer for; to suffer for; to atone for.
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As verbs the difference between subject and abide
is that subject is to cause (someone or something) to undergo a particular experience, especially one that is unpleasant or unwanted while abide is .As an adjective subject
is likely to be affected by or to experience something.As a noun subject
is (label) in a clause: the word or word group (usually a noun phrase) that is dealt with in active clauses with verbs denoting an action, the subject and the actor are usually the same.subject
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- a country subject to extreme heat
- All human things are subject to decay.
T time, passage=The ability to shift profits to low-tax countries by locating intellectual property in them
- (Spenser)
- Esau was never subject to Jacob.
Noun
(en noun)- the subject for heroic song
- 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
citation, passage=Then I had a good think on the subject of the hocussing of Cigarette, and I was reluctantly bound to admit that once again the man in the corner had found the only possible solution to the mystery.}}
A Cuckoo in the Nest, passage=The departure was not unduly prolonged.
It's a gas, passage=One of the hidden glories of Victorian engineering is proper drains.
- The earliest known form of subject is the ecclesiastical cantus firmus , or plain song.
- Writers of particular livesare apt to be prejudiced in favour of their subject .
Catherine Clabby
Focus on Everything, passage=Not long ago, it was difficult to produce photographs of tiny creatures with every part in focus. That’s because the lenses that are excellent at magnifying tiny subjects produce a narrow depth of field.}}