SUBSCRIBE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does subscribe mean? 

• SUBSCRIBE (verb)
  The verb SUBSCRIBE has 5 senses:

1. offer to buy, as of stocks and shares

2. mark with one's signature; write one's name (on)

3. adopt as a belief

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

5. receive or obtain regularly

  Familiarity information: SUBSCRIBE used as a verb is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SUBSCRIBE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they subscribe    ... he / she / it subscribes   
Past simple: subscribed   
Past participle: subscribed   
-ing form: subscribing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Offer to buy, as of stocks and shares

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Context example:

The broker subscribed 500 shares

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 2

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

sign; subscribe

Context example:

Please sign here

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:

Adopt as a belief

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

subscribe; support

Context example:

I subscribe to your view on abortion

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 4

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

pledge; subscribe

Context example:

I pledged $10 a month to my favorite radio station

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)

Sense 5

Meaning:

Receive or obtain regularly

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

subscribe; subscribe to; take

Context example:

We take the Times every day

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)

 Context examples 

I subscribed to this with all my heart, God knows.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

In one respect, my good fortune is undoubted, that of being able to subscribe myself,

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

But Miss Bertram does not care three straws for him; that is your opinion of your intimate friend. I do not subscribe to it.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

What could I do? In an evil hour I subscribed to a lie; and now only am I truly miserable.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Goldshmidt of de Hague have took it up, and de Dutch public has subscribe de money.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It has been kept very quiet, for the capital was all privately subscribed, and it’s too good a thing to let the public into.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He planned to buy some more clothes, to subscribe to many magazines, and to buy dozens of reference books that at present he was compelled to go to the library to consult.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Who subscribes?

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I swore and subscribed to these articles with great cheerfulness and content, although some of them were not so honourable as I could have wished; which proceeded wholly from the malice of Skyresh Bolgolam, the high-admiral: whereupon my chains were immediately unlocked, and I was at full liberty.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

I could tell you the moon is made of green cheese and you would subscribe to the notion, at least you would not repudiate it, because I've got dollars, mountains of them.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)