Subject vs. Caption — What's the Difference?

A person or thing that is being discussed, described, or dealt with

A title, short explanation, or description accompanying an illustration or a photograph.

A branch of knowledge studied or taught in a school, college, or university

A series of words superimposed on the bottom of television or motion picture frames that communicate dialogue to the hearing-impaired or translate foreign dialogue.

A member of a state other than its ruler, especially one owing allegiance to a monarch or other supreme ruler

A title or heading, as of a document or article.

A noun or noun phrase functioning as one of the main components of a clause, being the element about which the rest of the clause is predicated.

(Law) The heading of a pleading or other document that identifies the parties, court, term, and number of the action.

A thinking or feeling entity; the conscious mind; the ego, especially as opposed to anything external to the mind.

To furnish a caption for.

Likely or prone to be affected by (a particular condition or occurrence, typically an unwelcome or unpleasant one)

(typography) The descriptive heading or title, of a document or part thereof.

Dependent or conditional upon

A title or brief explanation attached to an illustration, cartoon, user interface element, etc.

Under the authority of

A piece of text appearing on screen as a subtitle or other part of a film or broadcast, describing dialogue (and sometimes other sound) for viewers who cannot hear.

Conditionally upon

(legal) The section on an official paper (for example, as part of a seizure or capture) that describes when, where, and what was taken, found or executed, and who authorized the act.

Cause or force someone or something to undergo (a particular experience or form of treatment, typically an unwelcome or unpleasant one)

A seizure or capture, especially of tangible property (chattel).

Bring (a person or country) under one's control or jurisdiction, typically by using force

To add captions to a text or illustration.

Being in a position or in circumstances that place one under the power or authority of another or others

To add captions to a film or broadcast.

Prone; disposed

A caviling; a sophism.

Likely to incur or receive; exposed

The act of taking or arresting a person by judicial process.

Contingent or dependent

That part of a legal instrument, as a commission, indictment, etc., which shows where, when, and by what authority, it was taken, found, or executed.

One who is under the rule of another or others, especially one who owes allegiance to a government or ruler.

The heading of a chapter, section, or page.

One concerning which something is said or done; a person or thing being discussed or dealt with

Taking exception; especially an quibble based on a captious argument;

Something that is treated or indicated in a work of art.

Translation of foreign dialogue of a movie or TV program; usually displayed at the bottom of the screen

(Music) A theme of a composition, especially a fugue.

Brief description accompanying an illustration

A course or area of study

Provide with a caption, as of a photograph or a drawing

A basis for action; a cause.

One that experiences or is subjected to something

A person or animal that is the object of medical or scientific study

A corpse intended for anatomical study and dissection.

One who is under surveillance

(Grammar) The noun, noun phrase, or pronoun in a sentence or clause that denotes the doer of the action or what is described by the predicate.

(Logic) The term of a proposition about which something is affirmed or denied.

The mind or thinking part as distinguished from the object of thought.

A being that undergoes personal conscious or unconscious experience of itself and of the world.

The essential nature or substance of something as distinguished from its attributes.

To cause to experience, undergo, or be acted upon

To subjugate; subdue.

To submit to the authority of

Likely to be affected by or to experience something.

Conditional upon something; used with to.

Placed or situated under; lying below, or in a lower situation.

Placed under the power of another; owing allegiance to a particular sovereign or state.

(grammar) In a clause: the word or word group (usually a noun phrase) about whom the statement is made. In active clauses with verbs denoting an action, the subject and the actor are usually the same.

An actor; one who takes action.

The main topic of a paper, work of art, discussion, field of study, etc.

A particular area of study.

A citizen in a monarchy.

A person ruled over by another, especially a monarch or state authority.

(music) The main theme or melody, especially in a fugue.

A human, animal or an inanimate object that is being examined, treated, analysed, etc.

(philosophy) A being that has subjective experiences, subjective consciousness, or a relationship with another entity.

(logic) That of which something is stated.

(math) The variable in terms of which an expression is defined.

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.

Placed or situated under; lying below, or in a lower situation.

Placed under the power of another; specifically (International Law), owing allegiance to a particular sovereign or state; as, Jamaica is subject to Great Britain.

Exposed; liable; prone; disposed; as, a country subject to extreme heat; men subject to temptation.

Obedient; submissive.

That which is placed under the authority, dominion, control, or influence of something else.

Specifically: One who is under the authority of a ruler and is governed by his laws; one who owes allegiance to a sovereign or a sovereign state; as, a subject of Queen Victoria; a British subject; a subject of the United States.

That which is subjected, or submitted to, any physical operation or process; specifically (Anat.), a dead body used for the purpose of dissection.

That which is brought under thought or examination; that which is taken up for discussion, or concerning which anything is said or done.

The person who is treated of; the hero of a piece; the chief character.

That of which anything is affirmed or predicated; the theme of a proposition or discourse; that which is spoken of; as, the nominative case is the subject of the verb.

That in which any quality, attribute, or relation, whether spiritual or material, inheres, or to which any of these appertain; substance; substratum.

The principal theme, or leading thought or phrase, on which a composition or a movement is based.

The incident, scene, figure, group, etc., which it is the aim of the artist to represent.

To bring under control, power, or dominion; to make subject; to subordinate; to subdue.

To expose; to make obnoxious or liable; as, credulity subjects a person to impositions.

To submit; to make accountable.

To make subservient.

To cause to undergo; as, to subject a substance to a white heat; to subject a person to a rigid test.

The subject matter of a conversation or discussion;

Some situation or event that is thought about;

A branch of knowledge;

Something (a person or object or scene) selected by an artist or photographer for graphic representation;

A person who is subjected to experimental or other observational procedures; someone who is an object of investigation;

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

(logic) the first term of a proposition

Cause to experience or suffer or make liable or vulnerable to;

Make accountable for;

Make subservient; force to submit or subdue

Refer for judgment or consideration;

Not exempt from tax;

Possibly accepting or permitting;

Being under the power or sovereignty of another or others;