Thrall vs Subject - What's the difference?
thrall | subject |
One who is enslaved or under mind control.
* 14th century , ,
* 1915 , ,
(uncountable) The state of being under the control of another person.
* 1864 , ,
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* 1911 , ,
A shelf; a stand for barrels, etc.
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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, title= A citizen in a monarchy.
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.
As nouns the difference between thrall and subject
is that thrall is one who is enslaved or under mind control while 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.As verbs the difference between thrall and subject
is that thrall is to make a thrall while subject is to cause (someone or something) to undergo a particular experience, especially one that is unpleasant or unwanted.As an adjective subject is
likely to be affected by or to experience something.thrall
English
Noun
(en noun)- My servant, which that is my thrall by right
- And there were household slaves in golden collars that burned of a plenty there with her, and nine female thralls , and eight male slaves of the Angles that were of gentle birth and battle-captured.
- Go: release him from the thrall of Hautia.
- [Y]our friend, John Edward, is at the other end of the room with his whole soul held in thrall by photographs of other people's relatives.
- In her brain she was dimly conscious of balancing, or striving to balance, the abject shame which had him now in thrall against the one compelling act of courage which had flung him grandly and madly on to the point of danger.
References
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
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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
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