subordinate
[sə'bɔrdn.ɪt]
n. 属, 附属

a. , 次, 附属

vt. 使位, 使

[医] 附属, 次

[] 次, 属,



subordinate
[ noun ]

1. an assistant subject to the authority or control of another

<noun.person>

2. a word that is more specific than a given word

<noun.communication>

[ verb ]

1. rank or order as less important or consider of less value

<verb.cognition>
Art is sometimes subordinated to Science in these schools

2. make subordinate, dependent, or subservient

<verb.change> subdue
Our wishes have to be subordinated to that of our ruler

[ adj ]

1. lower in rank or importance

<adj.all>

2. subject or submissive to authority or the control of another

<adj.all>
a subordinate kingdom

3. (of a clause) unable to stand alone syntactically as a complete sentence

<adj.all>
a subordinate (or dependent) clause functions as a noun or adjective or adverb within a sentence

Subordinate \Sub*or"di*nate\, a. [Pref. sub + L. ordinatus, p.
p. of ordinare to set in order, to arrange. See {Ordain}.]
1. Placed in a lower order, class, or rank; holding a lower
or inferior position.

The several kinds and subordinate species of each
are easily distinguished. --Woodward.

2. Inferior in order, nature, dignity, power, importance, or
the like.

It was subordinate, not enslaved, to the
understanding. --South.


Subordinate \Sub*or"di*nate\, n.
One who stands in order or rank below another; --
distinguished from a principal. --Milton.


Subordinate \Sub*or"di*nate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
{Subordinated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Subordinating}.]
1. To place in a lower order or class; to make or consider as
of less value or importance; as, to subordinate one
creature to another.

2. To make subject; to subject or subdue; as, to subordinate
the passions to reason.
※ -- {Sub*or"di*nate*ly}, adv. --
{Sub*or"di*nate*ness}, n.


Dependent \De*pend"ent\, a. [L. dependens, -entis, p. pr.
dependere. See {Depend}, and cf. {Dependant}.]
1. Hanging down; as, a dependent bough or leaf.

2. Relying on, or subject to, something else for support; not
able to exist, or sustain itself, or to perform anything,
without the will, power, or aid of something else; not
self-sustaining; subordinate; -- often with on or upon;
as, dependent on God; dependent upon friends. Opposite of
{independent}. [Narrower terms: {interdependent,
mutualist, mutually beneficial}; {parasitic, parasitical,
leechlike, bloodsucking}; {subordinate}; {underage};
{myrmecophilous}; {symbiotic}] Also See: {unfree}.

England, long dependent and degraded, was again a
power of the first rank. --Macaulay.

3. conditional; contingent or conditioned. Opposite of
{unconditional}.

Syn: qualified.
[WordNet 1.5]

4. addicted to drugs.

Syn: addicted, dependent, drug-addicted, hooked, strung-out.
[WordNet 1.5]

{Dependent covenant} or {Dependent contract} (Law), one not
binding until some connecting stipulation is performed.

{Dependent variable} (Math.), a varying quantity whose
changes are arbitrary, but are regarded as produced by
changes in another variable, which is called the
{independent variable}.