'Subscribe' definitions:
Definition of 'subscribe'
From: WordNet
verb
Offer to buy, as of stocks and shares; "The broker subscribed 500 shares"
verb
Mark with one's signature; write one's name (on); "She signed the letter and sent it off"; "Please sign here" [syn: sign, subscribe]
verb
Adopt as a belief; "I subscribe to your view on abortion" [syn: subscribe, support]
verb
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" [syn: pledge, subscribe]
verb
Receive or obtain regularly; "We take the Times every day" [syn: subscribe, subscribe to, take]
Definition of 'Subscribe'
From: GCIDE
- Subscribe \Sub*scribe"\, v. i.
- 1. To sign one's name to a letter or other document. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To give consent to something written, by signing one's name; hence, to assent; to agree. [1913 Webster]
- So spake, so wished, much humbled Eve; but Fate Subscribed not. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To become surely; -- with for. [R.] --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To yield; to admit one's self to be inferior or in the wrong. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- I will subscribe, and say I wronged the duke. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 5. To set one's name to a paper in token of promise to give a certain sum. [1913 Webster]
- 6. To enter one's name for a newspaper, a book, etc. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Subscribe'
From: GCIDE
- Subscribe \Sub*scribe"\, 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. [1913 Webster]
- [They] subscribed their names under them. --Sir T. More. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- All the bishops subscribed the sentence. --Milman. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To attest by writing one's name beneath; as, officers subscribe their official acts, and secretaries and clerks subscribe copies or records. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To promise to give, by writing one's name with the amount; as, each man subscribed ten dollars. [1913 Webster]
- 5. To sign away; to yield; to surrender. [Obs.] --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 6. To declare over one's signature; to publish. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- Either or must shortly hear from him, or I will subscribe him a coward. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'subscribe'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abet,
- accede,
- accept,
- acquiesce,
- advocate,
- agree,
- agree to,
- agree with,
- aid and abet,
- allow,
- approve,
- approve of,
- assent to,
- autograph,
- back up,
- be a member,
- be inscribed,
- belong,
- brook,
- carry a card,
- chip in,
- come through,
- comfort,
- condone,
- consent,
- consent to,
- contribute,
- contribute to,
- countenance,
- donate to,
- embolden,
- encourage,
- endorse,
- favor,
- gift,
- gift with,
- give to,
- go for,
- hearten,
- hold membership,
- ink,
- keep in countenance,
- kick in,
- permit,
- pitch in,
- pledge,
- promise,
- sanction,
- shine upon,
- sign up for,
- signature,
- smile upon,
- subscribe to,
- support,
- sweeten the kitty,
- tolerate,
- underwrite,
- yes