<B>subscript, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> a number, letter, or other symbol written underneath and usually to one side of the number, letter, or symbol to which it applies. <DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>written underneath or low on the line. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Mathematics.) of or having to do with a subindex. </DL>
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<B>subscription, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the act or process of subscribing. <DD><B> 2a. </B>the money subscribed; contribution. <BR> <I>Ex. His subscription to the Fresh Air Fund was $5.</I> <DD><B> b. </B>(British.) dues for a society, club, or other organization. <DD><B> 3. </B>the right to receive a magazine, newspaper, or other form of publication, obtained by paying a certain sum. <BR> <I>Ex. Your subscription to the newspaper expires next week.</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>a sum of money raised by a number of persons; fund. <BR> <I>Ex. We are raising a subscription for the new hospital.</I> <DD><B> 5. </B>something written at the end of a document, petition, or the like; signature. <DD><B> 6. </B>a signed declaration, statement, or other document. <DD><B> 7. </B>consent, agreement, or support given by signing one's name. <DD><B> 8a. </B>assent to a set of articles of faith, principles, or doctrines which are intended to further uniformity. <DD><B> b. </B>(in the Church of England) assent to the Thirty-nine Articles of 1563 and the Book of Common Prayer. </DL>
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<B>subscription book,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a book containing the names of subscribers, along with the amounts of their subscription. <BR> <I>Ex. Less than 48 hours after brokers opened subscription books on the largest financial dealing in history, the entire issue had been snapped up (Newsweek).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a book sold by subscription. <DD><B> 3. </B>a book of tickets for a series of events. <BR> <I>Ex. Shops will sell subscription books for the ... series of Stadium Concerts (New York Times).</I> </DL>
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<B>subscription television,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> television broadcasting paid for by the viewers and transmitted over cable or scrambled and decoded by a device on a subscriber's set. </DL>
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<B>subscriptive, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>of or having to do with a subscription or signature. <DD><B> 2. </B>having to do with the subscribing of money. adv. <B>subscriptively.</B> </DL>
<B>subsection, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a part of a section. </DL>
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<B>subsensible, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> deeper than the range of the senses; too deep or subtle for the senses to grasp. </DL>
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<B>subseptate, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> not perfectly septate; having an incomplete septum. </DL>
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<B>subsequence</B> (1), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the fact or condition of being subsequent. <DD><B> 2. </B>a subsequent event or circumstance; sequel. </DL>
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<B>subsequence</B> (2), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a subordinate or secondary sequence. <BR> <I>Ex. a subsequence of numbers.</I> </DL>
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<B>subsequency, </B>noun, pl. <B>-cies.</B> <B>=subsequence</B> (1).</DL>
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<B>subsequent, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> coming after; following; later. <BR> <I>Ex. Subsequent events proved that he was right. The story will be continued in subsequent issues of the magazine.</I> <BR><I>expr. <B>subsequent to,</B> </I>after; following; later than. <BR> <I>Ex. on the day subsequent to your visit.</I> noun <B>subsequentness.</B> </DL>
<B>subsequently, </B>adverb.<DL COMPACT><DD> afterward; later. <BR> <I>Ex. At first we thought we would go; subsequently we learned we were needed at home.</I> <BR><I>expr. <B>subsequently to,</B> </I>after; following; later than. <BR> <I>Ex. In North America ... the large quadrupeds lived subsequently to that period (Erasmus Darwin).</I> </DL>
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<B>subsere, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Ecology.) a subordinate or secondary succession of plant communities. <BR> <I>Ex. ... the species composition of early stages of the subsere (New Scientist).</I> </DL>
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<B>subserve, </B>transitive verb, <B>-served,</B> <B>-serving.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> to help or assist (as a purpose, action, or function). <BR> <I>Ex. Chewing food well subserves digestion. Liberty is to be subserved whatever occurs (Walt Whitman). When words no longer subserve thought but are granted a value of their own equal to that of thought itself, the mediocre mind is sorely tempted to use them, to the detriment of constructive thinking (Atlantic).</I> </DL>
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<B>subservience, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>slavish politeness and obedience; tame submission; servility. <DD><B> 2. </B>the condition or quality of being of use or service. </DL>
<B>subservient, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>slavishly polite and obedient; tamely submissive; servile. <BR> <I>Ex. The lawyers had been subservient beyond all other classes to the Crown (John R. Green).</I> (SYN) obsequious, truckling. <DD><B> 2. </B>useful as a means to help a purpose or end; serviceable (to). <BR> <I>Ex. A street of small shops subservient to the needs of poor people (W. Somerset Maugham).</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>subordinate or subject (to). adv. <B>subserviently.</B> </DL>
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<B>subset, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Mathematics.) a set, each of whose members is a member of another set or series of terms. The set of numbers from 2 to 5 is a subset of the set of numbers 0 to 10. </DL>
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<B>subshell, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> any part or segment of the space occupied by the orbit of an electron. <BR> <I>Ex. The relation arises from the disposition of electrons around a nucleus in a series of shells and subshells, which are really a simplified physical representation of quantum-mechanical energy levels (Scientific American).</I> </DL>
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<B>subshrub, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a plant with a somewhat woody base; small shrub; undershrub. </DL>
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<B>subshrubby, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> like a subshrub; suffruticose. </DL>
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<B>subside, </B>intransitive verb, <B>-sided,</B> <B>-siding.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>to grow less; become less active; die down. <BR> <I>Ex. The waves subsided when the wind stopped. Her fever subsided after shetook the medicine. Her anger now subsiding into grief (Frances Burney).</I> (SYN) abate, decrease, ebb, wane. <DD><B> 2. </B>to sink to a lower level. <BR> <I>Ex. Several days after the rain stopped, the flood waters subsided.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>to sink or fall to the bottom; settle. <DD><B> 4. </B>to sink down, as into a chair. </DL>
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<B>subsidence, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the act or process of subsiding. <BR> <I>Ex. the subsidence of a flood.</I> </DL>
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<B>subsidiarity, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the quality or condition of being subsidiary. </DL>
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<B>subsidiary, </B>adjective, noun, pl. <B>-aries.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>useful to assist or supplement; auxiliary; supplementary. <BR> <I>Ex. The teacher sold books as a subsidiary occupation.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>subordinate; secondary. <BR> <I>Ex. a subsidiary issue. Only as a subsidiary reason does the message advocate more trade to help assure our own economic growth (Wall Street Journal).</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>maintained by a subsidy or subsidies. <DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a person or thing that assists or supplements. <DD><B> 2. </B>a company having over half of its stock owned or controlled by another company. <BR> <I>Ex. The bus line was a subsidiary of the railroad.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>(Music.) a secondary theme or subject. adv. <B>subsidiarily.</B> </DL>
<B>subsidize, </B>transitive verb, <B>-dized,</B> <B>-dizing.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>to aid or assist with a grant of money or by guaranteeing a market. <BR> <I>Ex. The government subsidizes airlines that carry mail. Many universities subsidize research and publications.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>to buy the aid or assistance of with a grant of money. <DD><B> 3. </B><B>=bribe.</B> noun <B>subsidization.</B> </DL>
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<B>subsidized adoption,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S.) a government program that provides financial assistance to persons who adopt children. <BR> <I>Ex. Subsidized adoption is a way to increase the number of available adoptive homes (Frances A. Mullen).</I> </DL>
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<B>subsidizer, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person or group that subsidizes. </DL>
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<B>subsidy, </B>noun, pl. <B>-dies.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a grant or contribution of money, especially one made by a government in support of an undertaking or the upkeep of a thing. <BR> <I>Ex. a subsidy for education. Under the price-support program, the farmer is given a subsidy to encourage him to produce surpluses (Newsweek).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>money formerly granted to the sovereign by the British Parliament to meet special needs. </DL>
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<B>sub silentio,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Latin.) in silence; without a remark being made; without notice being taken. <BR> <I>Ex. Sometimes passing a thing sub silentio is evidence of consent (John Bouvier).</I> </DL>
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<B>subsist, </B>intransitive verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>to keep alive; live. <BR> <I>Ex. People in the far north subsist chiefly on fish and meat.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>to continue to be; exist. <BR> <I>Ex. Many superstitions still subsist. A club cannot subsist without members.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>(Philosophy.) <DD><B> a. </B>to stand as fact or truth; hold true. <DD><B> b. </B>to be logically necessary, probable, or conceivable. <DD><B> 4. </B>(Obsolete.) to continue in a condition or position; remain as such. <DD><I>v.t. </I> to provide for; feed; support. </DL>
