English words for 'The state or condition of being repressive.'
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noun
- The act of repressing; state of being repressed.
- the act of repressing; control by holding down
- a state of forcible subjugation
- (psychology) The involuntary rejection from consciousness of painful or disagreeable ideas, memories, feelings, or impulses.
- (psychiatry) the classical defense mechanism that protects you from impulses or ideas that would cause anxiety by preventing them from becoming conscious
noun
- the state of being controlled or governed
- the act of controlling or directing according to rule
- the act of bringing to uniformity; making regular
- a principle or condition that customarily governs behavior
- an authoritative command
- (embryology) the ability of an early embryo to continue normal development after its structure has been somehow damaged or altered
- (uncountable) The act of regulating or the condition of being regulated.
- (countable) A law or administrative rule, issued by an organization, used to guide or prescribe the conduct of members of that organization.
- (countable, in the singular) A numbered provision within such kind of legislation.
- (law, often in the plural) A type of law made by the executive branch of a government, usually as authorized by a statute made by the legislative branch giving the executive the authority to do so.
- (European Union law) A form of legislative act which is self-effecting, and requires no further intervention by the Member States to become law.
- (genetics) Mechanism controlling DNA transcription.
- (medicine) Physiological process which consists in maintaining homoeostasis.
adj
noun
- A general state of restrictiveness on behavior, action, or ideology.
- (medicine) Abnormal narrowing of a canal or duct in the body.
- (linguistics) The degree of contact, in consonants.
- A sternly critical remark or review.
- (usually in the plural) A rule restricting behaviour or action.
- abnormal narrowing of a bodily canal or passageway
- severe criticism
noun
- The state of being suppressed.
- The act or instance of suppressing.
- (military) The entirety of acts aimed at stopping or preventing the enemy to execute such unwanted activities like firing, regrouping, observation or others.
- (psychology) A process in which a person consciously excludes anxiety-producing thoughts, feelings, or memories.
- (of an eye) A subconscious adaptation by a person's brain to eliminate the symptoms of disorders of binocular vision such as strabismus, convergence insufficiency and aniseikonia.
- the failure to develop some part or organ
- forceful prevention; putting down by power or authority
- (psychology) the conscious exclusion of unacceptable thoughts or desires
- the act of withholding or withdrawing some book or writing from publication or circulation
noun
- the state of being kept down by unjust use of force or authority:
- The act of oppressing, or the state of being oppressed.
- a feeling of being oppressed
- the act of subjugating by cruelty
- The exercise of authority or power in a burdensome, cruel, or unjust manner.
- A feeling of being oppressed. Special usage may include a sense of heaviness or obstruction in the body or mind; depression; dullness; lassitude.
noun
- (by extension) The state of lacking freedom; constraint.
- The state of being enslaved or the practice of slavery.
- (attributive) Applied to clothing with many buckles, zips, etc., associated with punk and goth subcultures.
- (sex) The practice of physically restraining people for sexual pleasure, such as by tying up or shackling.
- the state of being under the control of another person
- the state of being under the control of a force or influence or abstract power
- sexual practice that involves physically restraining (by cords or handcuffs) one of the partners
noun
- The act of restricting, or the state of being restricted.
- (biology) The mechanism by which a cell degrades foreign DNA material.
- A regulation or limitation that restricts.
- a principle that limits the extent of something
- an act of limiting or restricting (as by regulation)
- the act of keeping something within specified bounds (by force if necessary)
noun
- The act of repelling or the condition of being repelled.
- An extreme dislike of something, or hostility to something.
- (physics) The repulsive force acting between bodies of the same electric charge or magnetic polarity.
- intense aversion
- the act of repulsing or repelling an attack; a successful defensive stand
- the force by which bodies repel one another
noun
- a rule or condition that limits freedom
- the act of controlling by restraining someone or something
- lack of ornamentation
- a device that retards something's motion
- discipline in personal and social activities
- the state of being physically constrained
- (uncountable) control or caution; reserve
- (countable) something that restrains, ties, fastens or secures
noun
- the action of prohibiting or inhibiting or forbidding (or an instance thereof)
- (physiology) the process whereby nerves can retard or prevent the functioning of an organ or part
- (psychology) the conscious exclusion of unacceptable thoughts or desires
- the quality of being inhibited
- (chemistry, biochemistry) The process of stopping or retarding a reaction.
- (psychology) A personal feeling of fear or embarrassment that stops one behaving naturally.
- The act of inhibiting.
- (Philippines, law) A recusal.
- (law) A writ from a higher court to an inferior judge to stay proceedings.
noun
- the action of prohibiting or inhibiting or forbidding (or an instance thereof)
- the period from 1920 to 1933 when the sale of alcoholic beverages was prohibited in the United States by a constitutional amendment
- a law forbidding the sale of alcoholic beverages
- refusal to approve or assent to
- a decree that prohibits something
- A period of time when specific socially disapproved consumables are considered controlled substances.
- A law prohibiting the manufacture or sale of alcohol.
- An act of prohibiting, forbidding, disallowing, or proscribing something.
verb
- To oppress or grievously burden.
- To overcome completely; to subdue totally.
- (figurative, colloquial) To do impressively well at (sports events; performances; interviews; etc.).
- To press between two hard objects; to squeeze so as to alter the natural shape or integrity, or to force together into a mass.
- (figurative) To overwhelm by pressure or weight.
- (intransitive) To be or become broken down or in, or pressed into a smaller volume or area, by external weight or force.
- (intransitive, transitive) To feel infatuation or unrequited love.
- (film, television) To give a compressed or foreshortened appearance to.
- (transitive, television) To make certain colors so similar as to be hard to distinguish, either as a deliberate effect or as a limitation of a display.
- To reduce to fine particles by pounding or grinding.
- crush or bruise
- make ineffective
- come down on or keep down by unjust use of one's authority
- become injured, broken, or distorted by pressure
- break into small pieces
- to compress with violence, out of natural shape or condition
- come out better in a competition, race, or conflict
- humiliate or depress completely
noun
- A crowd control barrier.
- (informal) An infatuation with somebody one is not dating.
- A violent collision or compression; a crash; destruction; ruin.
- A drink made by squeezing the juice out of fruit.
- (informal, by extension) The human object of such infatuation or affection.
- (uncountable, sexuality) A paraphilia involving arousal from seeing things destroyed by crushing.
- Violent pressure, as of a moving crowd.
- (television, uncountable) The situation where certain colors are so similar as to be hard to distinguish, either as a deliberate effect or as a limitation of a display.
- A standing stock or cage with movable sides used to restrain livestock for safe handling.
- (Australia) The process of crushing cane to remove the raw sugar, or the season when this process takes place.
- A crowd that produces uncomfortable pressure.
- (slang) A group or gang.
- A violent crowding.
- a dense crowd of people
- the act of crushing
- leather that has had its grain pattern accentuated
- temporary love of an adolescent
adj
- of or relating to the principles of totalitarianism according to which the state regulates every realm of life
- characterized by a government in which the political authority exercises absolute and centralized control
- Of or relating to a system of government where the people have virtually no authority and the state wields absolute control of every aspect of the country, socially, financially, and politically.
noun
noun
- the act of constraining; the threat or use of force to control the thoughts or behavior of others
- The repression of one's feelings.
- a device that retards something's motion
- the state of being physically constrained
- An irresistible force or compulsion.
- (databases) A linkage or other restriction that maintains database integrity.
- Something that constrains; a restriction.
- (mathematics) A condition that a solution to an optimization problem must satisfy.
verb
- (transitive) To restrain by force, especially by law or authority; to repress; to curb.
- (transitive, computing) To force an attribute, normally of a data type, to take on the attribute of another data type.
- (transitive) To use force, threat, fraud, or intimidation in an attempt to compel one to act against their will.
- to cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means
noun
verb
noun
- (figuratively) Something that hinders freedom.
- (slang) A prison or prison cell.
- (mining) The drum on which the rope is wound in a hoisting whim.
- The passenger compartment of a lift.
- (athletics) The area from which competitors throw a discus or hammer.
- A wirework strainer, used in connection with pumps and pipes.
- (graph theory) A regular graph that has as few vertices as possible for its girth.
- (engineering) A skeleton frame to limit the motion of a loose piece, such as a ball valve.
- In killer sudoku puzzles, an irregularly-shaped group of cells that must contain a set of unique digits adding up to a certain total, in addition to the usual constraints of sudoku.
- An enclosure made of bars, normally to hold animals.
- (US, derogatory, slang) An automobile.
- (baseball, ice hockey) The protective wire mask at the front of a helmet.
- An outer framework of timber, enclosing something within it.
- (field hockey or ice hockey, water polo) The goal.
- something that restricts freedom as a cage restricts movement
- a movable screen placed behind home base to catch balls during batting practice
- an enclosure made or wire or metal bars in which birds or animals can be kept
- the net that is the goal in ice hockey
verb
- (transitive) To confine in a cage; to put into and keep in a cage.
- (aviation) To immobilize an artificial horizon.
- (transitive, figuratively) To restrict someone's movement or creativity.
- To track individual responses to direct mail, either (advertising) to maintain and develop mailing lists or (politics) to identify people who are not eligible to vote because they do not reside at the registered addresses.
- (transitive, slang) To imprison.
- confine in a cage
noun
- The state of being governed.
- The process, or the power, of governing; government or administration.
- The group of people who make up an administrative body.
- (management) Accountability for consistent, cohesive policies, processes and decision rights.
- The specific system by which a political system is ruled.
- the act of governing; exercising authority
- the persons (or committees or departments etc.) who make up a body for the purpose of administering something
verb
- To oppress or harass by forcing to do hard and unnecessary work.
- (US, informal) To perform an unpleasant initiation ritual upon a usually non-consenting individual, especially freshmen to a closed community such as a college fraternity or military unit.
- To be or become hazy, or thick with haze.
- (transitive) In a rodeo, to assist the bulldogger by keeping (the steer) running in a straight line.
- (transitive) To use aversive stimuli on (a wild animal, such as a bear) to encourage it to keep its distance from humans.
- become hazy, dull, or cloudy
- harass by imposing humiliating or painful tasks, as in military institutions
noun
- An analogous dullness on a surface that is ideally highly reflective or transparent.
- A reduction of transparency of a clear gas or liquid.
- (countable, brewing) Any substance causing turbidity in beer or wine.
- Very fine solid particles (smoke, dust) or liquid droplets (moisture) suspended in the air, slightly limiting visibility. (Compare fog, mist.)
- (figuratively) Any state suggestive of haze in the atmosphere, such as mental confusion or vagueness of memory.
- (uncountable, engineering, packaging) The degree of cloudiness or turbidity in a clear glass or plastic, measured in percent.
- confusion characterized by lack of clarity
- atmospheric moisture or dust or smoke that causes reduced visibility
adj
- being under the power or sovereignty of another or others
- held from above and hanging down
- addicted to a drug
- relying on or requiring a person or thing for support, supply, or what is needed
- (of a clause) unable to stand alone syntactically as a complete sentence
- contingent on something else
- Hanging down.
- Relying upon; depending upon.
- (of Irish/Manx/Scottish (Gaelic) verb forms) Used after a particle (with one or two exceptions), such as those which express questions, subordinate clauses, and negative sentences.
- (medicine) Of part of the body: positioned lower than the heart, like the legs while standing up, or the back while supine.
- (statistics) Having a probability that is affected by the outcome of a separate event.
noun
- a person who relies on another person for support (especially financial support)
- (grammar) An element in phrase or clause structure that is not the head. Includes complements, modifiers and determiners.
- A person who relies on another for support or sustenance, particularly financial support.
- (philosophy) dependent (origination), in Buddhism, the idea that the existence of everything is conditional and dependent on a cause, and that nothing happens fortuitously or by chance.
- (grammar) The aorist subjunctive or subjunctive perfective: a form of a verb not used independently but preceded by a particle to form the negative or a tense form. Found in Greek and in the Gaelic languages.
adj
- being under the power or sovereignty of another or others
- likely to be affected by something
- possibly accepting or permitting
- Conditional upon something; used with to.
- Likely to be affected by or to experience something; liable.
- Placed under the power of another; owing allegiance to a particular sovereign or state.
- Placed or situated under; lying below, or in a lower situation.
noun
- some situation or event that is thought about
- the subject matter of a conversation or discussion
- (logic) the first term of a proposition
- a person who owes allegiance to that nation
- (grammar) one of the two main constituents of a sentence; the grammatical constituent about which something is predicated
- something (a person or object or scene) selected by an artist or photographer for graphic representation
- a branch of knowledge
- a person who is subjected to experimental or other observational procedures; someone who is an object of investigation
- By faulty generalisation from a clause's grammatical subject often being coinstantiated with one: an actor or agent; one who takes action.
- A particular area of study.
- A citizen in a monarchy.
- (grammar) The noun, pronoun or noun phrase about whom the statement is made. In active clauses with verbs denoting an action, the subject is the actor. In clauses in the passive voice the subject is the target of the action.
- The main topic of a paper, work of art, discussion, field of study, etc.
- A human, animal, or an inanimate object that is being examined, treated, analysed, etc; especially, one being studied in a scientific experiment, such as a clinical trial.
- (music) The main theme or melody, especially in a fugue.
- (logic) That of which something is stated.
- A person ruled over by another, especially a monarch or state authority.
- (mathematics) The variable in terms of which an expression is defined.
- (philosophy) A being that has subjective experiences, subjective consciousness, or a relationship with another entity.
verb
- make subservient; force to submit or subdue
- cause to experience or suffer or make liable or vulnerable to
- make accountable for
- (transitive, construed with to) To cause (someone or something) to undergo a particular experience, especially one that is unpleasant or unwanted.
- (transitive) To make subordinate or subservient; to subdue or enslave; to subjugate.
noun
- The act of repressing; state of being repressed.
- the act of repressing; control by holding down
- a state of forcible subjugation
- (psychology) The involuntary rejection from consciousness of painful or disagreeable ideas, memories, feelings, or impulses.
- (psychiatry) the classical defense mechanism that protects you from impulses or ideas that would cause anxiety by preventing them from becoming conscious
noun
- the state of being controlled or governed
- the act of controlling or directing according to rule
- the act of bringing to uniformity; making regular
- a principle or condition that customarily governs behavior
- an authoritative command
- (embryology) the ability of an early embryo to continue normal development after its structure has been somehow damaged or altered
- (uncountable) The act of regulating or the condition of being regulated.
- (countable) A law or administrative rule, issued by an organization, used to guide or prescribe the conduct of members of that organization.
- (countable, in the singular) A numbered provision within such kind of legislation.
- (law, often in the plural) A type of law made by the executive branch of a government, usually as authorized by a statute made by the legislative branch giving the executive the authority to do so.
- (European Union law) A form of legislative act which is self-effecting, and requires no further intervention by the Member States to become law.
- (genetics) Mechanism controlling DNA transcription.
- (medicine) Physiological process which consists in maintaining homoeostasis.
adj
noun
- A general state of restrictiveness on behavior, action, or ideology.
- (medicine) Abnormal narrowing of a canal or duct in the body.
- (linguistics) The degree of contact, in consonants.
- A sternly critical remark or review.
- (usually in the plural) A rule restricting behaviour or action.
- abnormal narrowing of a bodily canal or passageway
- severe criticism
noun
- The state of being suppressed.
- The act or instance of suppressing.
- (military) The entirety of acts aimed at stopping or preventing the enemy to execute such unwanted activities like firing, regrouping, observation or others.
- (psychology) A process in which a person consciously excludes anxiety-producing thoughts, feelings, or memories.
- (of an eye) A subconscious adaptation by a person's brain to eliminate the symptoms of disorders of binocular vision such as strabismus, convergence insufficiency and aniseikonia.
- the failure to develop some part or organ
- forceful prevention; putting down by power or authority
- (psychology) the conscious exclusion of unacceptable thoughts or desires
- the act of withholding or withdrawing some book or writing from publication or circulation
noun
- the state of being kept down by unjust use of force or authority:
- The act of oppressing, or the state of being oppressed.
- a feeling of being oppressed
- the act of subjugating by cruelty
- The exercise of authority or power in a burdensome, cruel, or unjust manner.
- A feeling of being oppressed. Special usage may include a sense of heaviness or obstruction in the body or mind; depression; dullness; lassitude.
noun
- (by extension) The state of lacking freedom; constraint.
- The state of being enslaved or the practice of slavery.
- (attributive) Applied to clothing with many buckles, zips, etc., associated with punk and goth subcultures.
- (sex) The practice of physically restraining people for sexual pleasure, such as by tying up or shackling.
- the state of being under the control of another person
- the state of being under the control of a force or influence or abstract power
- sexual practice that involves physically restraining (by cords or handcuffs) one of the partners
noun
- The act of restricting, or the state of being restricted.
- (biology) The mechanism by which a cell degrades foreign DNA material.
- A regulation or limitation that restricts.
- a principle that limits the extent of something
- an act of limiting or restricting (as by regulation)
- the act of keeping something within specified bounds (by force if necessary)
noun
- The act of repelling or the condition of being repelled.
- An extreme dislike of something, or hostility to something.
- (physics) The repulsive force acting between bodies of the same electric charge or magnetic polarity.
- intense aversion
- the act of repulsing or repelling an attack; a successful defensive stand
- the force by which bodies repel one another
noun
- a rule or condition that limits freedom
- the act of controlling by restraining someone or something
- lack of ornamentation
- a device that retards something's motion
- discipline in personal and social activities
- the state of being physically constrained
- (uncountable) control or caution; reserve
- (countable) something that restrains, ties, fastens or secures
noun
- the action of prohibiting or inhibiting or forbidding (or an instance thereof)
- (physiology) the process whereby nerves can retard or prevent the functioning of an organ or part
- (psychology) the conscious exclusion of unacceptable thoughts or desires
- the quality of being inhibited
- (chemistry, biochemistry) The process of stopping or retarding a reaction.
- (psychology) A personal feeling of fear or embarrassment that stops one behaving naturally.
- The act of inhibiting.
- (Philippines, law) A recusal.
- (law) A writ from a higher court to an inferior judge to stay proceedings.
noun
- the action of prohibiting or inhibiting or forbidding (or an instance thereof)
- the period from 1920 to 1933 when the sale of alcoholic beverages was prohibited in the United States by a constitutional amendment
- a law forbidding the sale of alcoholic beverages
- refusal to approve or assent to
- a decree that prohibits something
- A period of time when specific socially disapproved consumables are considered controlled substances.
- A law prohibiting the manufacture or sale of alcohol.
- An act of prohibiting, forbidding, disallowing, or proscribing something.
noun
- the act of constraining; the threat or use of force to control the thoughts or behavior of others
- The repression of one's feelings.
- a device that retards something's motion
- the state of being physically constrained
- An irresistible force or compulsion.
- (databases) A linkage or other restriction that maintains database integrity.
- Something that constrains; a restriction.
- (mathematics) A condition that a solution to an optimization problem must satisfy.
noun
verb
noun
- (figuratively) Something that hinders freedom.
- (slang) A prison or prison cell.
- (mining) The drum on which the rope is wound in a hoisting whim.
- The passenger compartment of a lift.
- (athletics) The area from which competitors throw a discus or hammer.
- A wirework strainer, used in connection with pumps and pipes.
- (graph theory) A regular graph that has as few vertices as possible for its girth.
- (engineering) A skeleton frame to limit the motion of a loose piece, such as a ball valve.
- In killer sudoku puzzles, an irregularly-shaped group of cells that must contain a set of unique digits adding up to a certain total, in addition to the usual constraints of sudoku.
- An enclosure made of bars, normally to hold animals.
- (US, derogatory, slang) An automobile.
- (baseball, ice hockey) The protective wire mask at the front of a helmet.
- An outer framework of timber, enclosing something within it.
- (field hockey or ice hockey, water polo) The goal.
- something that restricts freedom as a cage restricts movement
- a movable screen placed behind home base to catch balls during batting practice
- an enclosure made or wire or metal bars in which birds or animals can be kept
- the net that is the goal in ice hockey
verb
- (transitive) To confine in a cage; to put into and keep in a cage.
- (aviation) To immobilize an artificial horizon.
- (transitive, figuratively) To restrict someone's movement or creativity.
- To track individual responses to direct mail, either (advertising) to maintain and develop mailing lists or (politics) to identify people who are not eligible to vote because they do not reside at the registered addresses.
- (transitive, slang) To imprison.
- confine in a cage
noun
- The state of being governed.
- The process, or the power, of governing; government or administration.
- The group of people who make up an administrative body.
- (management) Accountability for consistent, cohesive policies, processes and decision rights.
- The specific system by which a political system is ruled.
- the act of governing; exercising authority
- the persons (or committees or departments etc.) who make up a body for the purpose of administering something
verb
- To oppress or grievously burden.
- To overcome completely; to subdue totally.
- (figurative, colloquial) To do impressively well at (sports events; performances; interviews; etc.).
- To press between two hard objects; to squeeze so as to alter the natural shape or integrity, or to force together into a mass.
- (figurative) To overwhelm by pressure or weight.
- (intransitive) To be or become broken down or in, or pressed into a smaller volume or area, by external weight or force.
- (intransitive, transitive) To feel infatuation or unrequited love.
- (film, television) To give a compressed or foreshortened appearance to.
- (transitive, television) To make certain colors so similar as to be hard to distinguish, either as a deliberate effect or as a limitation of a display.
- To reduce to fine particles by pounding or grinding.
- crush or bruise
- make ineffective
- come down on or keep down by unjust use of one's authority
- become injured, broken, or distorted by pressure
- break into small pieces
- to compress with violence, out of natural shape or condition
- come out better in a competition, race, or conflict
- humiliate or depress completely
noun
- A crowd control barrier.
- (informal) An infatuation with somebody one is not dating.
- A violent collision or compression; a crash; destruction; ruin.
- A drink made by squeezing the juice out of fruit.
- (informal, by extension) The human object of such infatuation or affection.
- (uncountable, sexuality) A paraphilia involving arousal from seeing things destroyed by crushing.
- Violent pressure, as of a moving crowd.
- (television, uncountable) The situation where certain colors are so similar as to be hard to distinguish, either as a deliberate effect or as a limitation of a display.
- A standing stock or cage with movable sides used to restrain livestock for safe handling.
- (Australia) The process of crushing cane to remove the raw sugar, or the season when this process takes place.
- A crowd that produces uncomfortable pressure.
- (slang) A group or gang.
- A violent crowding.
- a dense crowd of people
- the act of crushing
- leather that has had its grain pattern accentuated
- temporary love of an adolescent
verb
- (transitive) To restrain by force, especially by law or authority; to repress; to curb.
- (transitive, computing) To force an attribute, normally of a data type, to take on the attribute of another data type.
- (transitive) To use force, threat, fraud, or intimidation in an attempt to compel one to act against their will.
- to cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means
verb
- To oppress or harass by forcing to do hard and unnecessary work.
- (US, informal) To perform an unpleasant initiation ritual upon a usually non-consenting individual, especially freshmen to a closed community such as a college fraternity or military unit.
- To be or become hazy, or thick with haze.
- (transitive) In a rodeo, to assist the bulldogger by keeping (the steer) running in a straight line.
- (transitive) To use aversive stimuli on (a wild animal, such as a bear) to encourage it to keep its distance from humans.
- become hazy, dull, or cloudy
- harass by imposing humiliating or painful tasks, as in military institutions
noun
- An analogous dullness on a surface that is ideally highly reflective or transparent.
- A reduction of transparency of a clear gas or liquid.
- (countable, brewing) Any substance causing turbidity in beer or wine.
- Very fine solid particles (smoke, dust) or liquid droplets (moisture) suspended in the air, slightly limiting visibility. (Compare fog, mist.)
- (figuratively) Any state suggestive of haze in the atmosphere, such as mental confusion or vagueness of memory.
- (uncountable, engineering, packaging) The degree of cloudiness or turbidity in a clear glass or plastic, measured in percent.
- confusion characterized by lack of clarity
- atmospheric moisture or dust or smoke that causes reduced visibility
adj
- of or relating to the principles of totalitarianism according to which the state regulates every realm of life
- characterized by a government in which the political authority exercises absolute and centralized control
- Of or relating to a system of government where the people have virtually no authority and the state wields absolute control of every aspect of the country, socially, financially, and politically.
noun
adj
- being under the power or sovereignty of another or others
- held from above and hanging down
- addicted to a drug
- relying on or requiring a person or thing for support, supply, or what is needed
- (of a clause) unable to stand alone syntactically as a complete sentence
- contingent on something else
- Hanging down.
- Relying upon; depending upon.
- (of Irish/Manx/Scottish (Gaelic) verb forms) Used after a particle (with one or two exceptions), such as those which express questions, subordinate clauses, and negative sentences.
- (medicine) Of part of the body: positioned lower than the heart, like the legs while standing up, or the back while supine.
- (statistics) Having a probability that is affected by the outcome of a separate event.
noun
- a person who relies on another person for support (especially financial support)
- (grammar) An element in phrase or clause structure that is not the head. Includes complements, modifiers and determiners.
- A person who relies on another for support or sustenance, particularly financial support.
- (philosophy) dependent (origination), in Buddhism, the idea that the existence of everything is conditional and dependent on a cause, and that nothing happens fortuitously or by chance.
- (grammar) The aorist subjunctive or subjunctive perfective: a form of a verb not used independently but preceded by a particle to form the negative or a tense form. Found in Greek and in the Gaelic languages.
adj
- being under the power or sovereignty of another or others
- likely to be affected by something
- possibly accepting or permitting
- Conditional upon something; used with to.
- Likely to be affected by or to experience something; liable.
- Placed under the power of another; owing allegiance to a particular sovereign or state.
- Placed or situated under; lying below, or in a lower situation.
noun
- some situation or event that is thought about
- the subject matter of a conversation or discussion
- (logic) the first term of a proposition
- a person who owes allegiance to that nation
- (grammar) one of the two main constituents of a sentence; the grammatical constituent about which something is predicated
- something (a person or object or scene) selected by an artist or photographer for graphic representation
- a branch of knowledge
- a person who is subjected to experimental or other observational procedures; someone who is an object of investigation
- By faulty generalisation from a clause's grammatical subject often being coinstantiated with one: an actor or agent; one who takes action.
- A particular area of study.
- A citizen in a monarchy.
- (grammar) The noun, pronoun or noun phrase about whom the statement is made. In active clauses with verbs denoting an action, the subject is the actor. In clauses in the passive voice the subject is the target of the action.
- The main topic of a paper, work of art, discussion, field of study, etc.
- A human, animal, or an inanimate object that is being examined, treated, analysed, etc; especially, one being studied in a scientific experiment, such as a clinical trial.
- (music) The main theme or melody, especially in a fugue.
- (logic) That of which something is stated.
- A person ruled over by another, especially a monarch or state authority.
- (mathematics) The variable in terms of which an expression is defined.
- (philosophy) A being that has subjective experiences, subjective consciousness, or a relationship with another entity.
verb
- make subservient; force to submit or subdue
- cause to experience or suffer or make liable or vulnerable to
- make accountable for
- (transitive, construed with to) To cause (someone or something) to undergo a particular experience, especially one that is unpleasant or unwanted.
- (transitive) To make subordinate or subservient; to subdue or enslave; to subjugate.