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SUBSCRIBE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Adopt as a belief

Example:

I subscribe to your view on abortion

Synonyms:

subscribe; support

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "subscribe" is one way to...):

agree; concord; concur; hold (be in accord; be in agreement)

"Subscribe" entails doing...:

approve; O.K.; okay; sanction (give sanction to)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s PP

Derivation:

subscriber (someone who expresses strong approval)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Mark with one's signature; write one's name (on)

Example:

Please sign here

Synonyms:

sign; subscribe

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "subscribe" is one way to...):

write (communicate or express by writing)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "subscribe"):

rubricate (sign with a mark instead of a name)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s PP

Derivation:

subscription (the act of signing your name; writing your signature (as on a document))

Sense 3

Meaning:

Receive or obtain regularly

Example:

We take the Times every day

Synonyms:

subscribe; subscribe to; take

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Hypernyms (to "subscribe" is one way to...):

buy; purchase (obtain by purchase; acquire by means of a financial transaction)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

subscriber (someone who contracts to receive and pay for a service or a certain number of issues of a publication)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Offer to buy, as of stocks and shares

Example:

The broker subscribed 500 shares

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Hypernyms (to "subscribe" is one way to...):

bid; offer; tender (propose a payment)

Domain category:

investing; investment (the act of investing; laying out money or capital in an enterprise with the expectation of profit)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 5

Meaning:

Pay (an amount of money) as a contribution to a charity or service, especially at regular intervals

Example:

I pledged $10 a month to my favorite radio station

Synonyms:

pledge; subscribe

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Hypernyms (to "subscribe" is one way to...):

donate (give to a charity or good cause)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

subscriber (someone who contributes (or promises to contribute) a sum of money)

subscription (a pledged contribution)

Credits

 Context examples: 

Several wealthy and benevolent individuals in the county subscribed largely for the erection of a more convenient building in a better situation; new regulations were made; improvements in diet and clothing introduced; the funds of the school were intrusted to the management of a committee.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

If Mr. T. should ever reply to it (which I cannot but feel to be most improbable), a letter addressed to M. E., Post Office, Canterbury, will be fraught with less painful consequences than any addressed immediately to one, who subscribes herself, in extreme distress, Mr. Thomas Traddles's respectful friend and suppliant

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)