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English Dictionary: subscribe	by the DICT Development Group
4 results for subscribe
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
subscribe v offer to buy, as of stocks and shares; "The broker subscribed 500 shares" mark with one's signature; write one's name (on); "She signed the letter and sent it off"; "Please sign here" Synonym(s): sign, subscribe adopt as a belief; "I subscribe to your view on abortion" Synonym(s): subscribe, support pay (an amount of money) as a contribution to a charity or service, especially at regular intervals; "I pledged $10 a month to my favorite radio station" Synonym(s): pledge, subscribe receive or obtain regularly; "We take the Times every day" Synonym(s): subscribe, subscribe to, take
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Subscribe \Sub*scribe"\, v. i. 1. To sign one's name to a letter or other document. --Shak. 2. To give consent to something written, by signing one's name; hence, to assent; to agree. So spake, so wished, much humbled Eve; but Fate Subscribed not. --Milton. 3. To become surely; -- with for. [R.] --Shak. 4. To yield; to admit one's self to be inferior or in the wrong. [Obs.] I will subscribe, and say I wronged the duke. --Shak. 5. To set one's name to a paper in token of promise to give a certain sum. 6. To enter one's name for a newspaper, a book, etc.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Subscribe \Subscribe"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Subscribed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Subscribing}.] [L. subscribere, subscriptum; sub under + scribere to write: cf. F. souscrire. See {Scribe}.] 1. To write underneath, as one's name; to sign (one's name) to a document. [They] subscribed their names under them. --Sir T. More. 2. To sign with one's own hand; to give consent to, as something written, or to bind one's self to the terms of, by writing one's name beneath; as, parties subscribe* a covenant or contract; a man subscribes a bond. All the bishops subscribed the sentence. --Milman. 3. To attest by writing one's name beneath; as, officers subscribe their official acts, and secretaries and clerks subscribe copies or records. 4. To promise to give, by writing one's name with the amount; as, each man subscribed ten dollars. 5. To sign away; to yield; to surrender. [Obs.] --Shak. 6. To declare over one's signature; to publish. [Obs.] Either or must shortly hear from him, or I will subscribe him a coward. --Shak.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
subscribe To request to receive messages posted to a {mailing list} or {newsgroup}. In contrast to the mundane use of the word this is often free of charge. (1997-03-27)