Subject

Subject ( "lying beneath") may refer to:

 Education 
 Subject (school), a course of academic instruction

 Library and information science 
 Subject (documents) (subject classification; subject indexing; subject searching)
 Subject term or index term, descriptor of a document used in bibliographic records

 Philosophy 
Subject (philosophy), a being that has subjective experiences, subjective consciousness, or a relationship with another entity
Subject–object problem, the issue of how actors or observers relate to things that are observed or acted upon

 Linguistics 
 In general, any topic currently under consideration; see subject (school)
 Subject (grammar), who or what a sentence or a clause is about
 Subject case or nominative case, one of the grammatical cases for a noun

 Computing 
 Subjects (programming), core elements in the subject-oriented programming paradigm

 Music 
 The melodic material presented first in a fugue
 Either of the two main groups of themes (first subject, second subject) in sonata form

 People 
A subject is an individual subjected to the rule by an elite, see feudalism
subjects in medieval feudalism, see commoners
subjects in modern constitutional monarchies, such as the United Kingdom, see British subject

 Statistics and psychology 
 A subject is someone or something that undergoes testing in a scientific experiment.