subscribe
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
computing
engineering
finance
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English subscriben, subskryben, from Latin subscrībere (“write beneath”). Compare its native English equivalent underwrite.
Inflected forms:
form: subscribes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: subscribing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: subscribed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: subscribed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To write (one’s name) at the bottom of a document; to sign (one's name).
pos: verb
examples: [They] subscribed their names under them.
[…] although the will is holographic, and a holographic instrument cannot be admitted to probate where testator told the subscribing witnesses that it was not his will, […]
Commission to take testimony: testimony of subscribing witnesses may be taken by commission […]
gloss: To sign; to mark with one's signature as a token of consent or attestation.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Parties subscribe a covenant or contract; a man subscribes a bond.
Officers subscribe their official acts, and secretaries and clerks subscribe copies or records.
[E]very officer who shall hereafter be appointed, shall, before he enters on the duties of his office, subscribe these rules and regulations.
All the bishops subscribed the sentence.
gloss: To sign up to have copies of a publication, such as a newspaper or a magazine, delivered for a period of time.
pos: verb
tags: ergative
examples: Would you like to subscribe or subscribe a friend to our new magazine, Lexicography Illustrated?
gloss: To pay for the provision of a service, such as Internet access, a cell phone plan, or a streaming service.
pos: verb
examples: I subscribed to this streaming service years ago.
gloss: To believe or agree with a theory or an idea [with to].
pos: verb
examples: I don’t subscribe to that theory.
gloss: To pay money to be a member of an organization.
pos: verb
gloss: To contribute or promise to contribute money to a common fund.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: […] under no circumstances could I ever again be nominated for any public office, as no corporation would subscribe to a campaign fund if I was on the ticket, and that they would subscribe most heavily to beat me;
The culprits are old boys of Ardingly College, Sussex, who, in years gone by, wrote their names on the walls of the organ loft, an act which was strictly forbidden. Now they have been invited to subscribe towards the £400 required to make improvements to the organ.
gloss: To promise to give, by writing one's name with the amount.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Each man subscribed ten dollars.
gloss: To agree to buy shares in a company.
pos: verb
examples: The capital which had been subscribed to this bank, at two different subscriptions, amounted to one hundred and sixty thousand pounds, of which eighty per cent only was paid up.
gloss: To sign away; to yield; to surrender.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
examples: Admit no other way to save his life ,
(As I subscribe not that, nor any other,
But in the loss of question) […]
gloss: To yield; to admit to being inferior or in the wrong.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
gloss: To declare over one's signature; to publish.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: I will subscribe him a coward.
gloss: To indicate interest in the communications made by a person or organization.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Please like this video, and subscribe to my YouTube channel.
gloss: To register for notifications about an event or similar.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: If you subscribe to the MouseClick event, your application can react to the user clicking the mouse.
Synonyms: sign up
underwrite
Related words: subscript
subscription
subscriptive
subscriptively
Derived words: nonsubscriber
nonsubscribing
oversubscribe
oversubscriber
resubscribe
subscribable
subscriber
subscribership
undersubscribe
undersubscribed
unsubscribe
unsubscriber
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