different between topic vs subjects

English

Alternative forms

• topick (obsolete)

Etymology

From Latin topica, from Ancient Greek ??????? (topikós, “pertaining to a place, local, pertaining to a common place, or topic, topical”), from ????? (tópos, “a place”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?t?p?k/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?t?p?k/
• Rhymes: -?p?k
• Hyphenation: top?ic

Adjective

topic

1. topical

Noun

topic (plural topics)

1. Subject; theme; a category or general area of interest.
2. (Internet) Discussion thread.
3. (music) A musical sign intended to suggest a particular style or genre.
   • 2012, Esti Sheinberg, Music Semiotics (page 9)

     In Peircean terms, topics are interpretants: signifieds that become new signifiers in the endless semiotic chain of interpretations.

4. (obsolete) An argument or reason.
   • 1675, John Wilkins, Of the Principle and Duties of Natural Religion

     contumacious persons, who are not to be fixed by any principles, whom no topics can work upon

5. (obsolete, medicine) An external local application or remedy, such as a plaster, a blister, etc.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Wiseman to this entry?)

Synonyms

• (area of interest): subject, subject area

Derived terms

• -topic

Translations

Further reading

• topic in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• topic in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• cop it, optic, picot

English

Etymology 1

See subject (noun).

Pronunciation

• enPR: s?b?j?kts, IPA^(key): /?s?b.d??kts/

Noun

subjects

1. plural of subject

Etymology 2

See subject (verb).

Pronunciation

• enPR: s?b-j?kts?, IPA^(key): /s?b?d??kt/, /s?b?d??kts/

Verb

subjects

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of subject