Topic

['tɒpɪk] or ['tɑpɪk]

Definition

(noun.) some situation or event that is thought about; 'he kept drifting off the topic'; 'he had been thinking about the subject for several years'; 'it is a matter for the police'.

Typist: Pansy--From WordNet

Definition

(n.) One of the various general forms of argument employed in probable as distinguished from demonstrative reasoning, -- denominated by Aristotle to`poi (literally, places), as being the places or sources from which arguments may be derived, or to which they may be referred; also, a prepared form of argument, applicable to a great variety of cases, with a supply of which the ancient rhetoricians and orators provided themselves; a commonplace of argument or oratory.

(n.) A treatise on forms of argument; a system or scheme of forms or commonplaces of argument or oratory; as, the Topics of Aristotle.

(n.) An argument or reason.

(n.) The subject of any distinct portion of a discourse, or argument, or literary composition; also, the general or main subject of the whole; a matter treated of; a subject, as of conversation or of thought; a matter; a point; a head.

(n.) An external local application or remedy, as a plaster, a blister, etc.

(a.) Topical.

Checker: Salvatore

Synonyms and Synonymous

n. [1]. Subject, theme, thesis, question, point, matter, subject-matter, matter in hand.[2]. Commonplace (of argument or oratory), general truth, general idea.

Inputed by Byron

Synonyms and Antonyms

SYN:Question, theme, subject, subject-matter,[See IMPLEMENT_and_AGENT]

Inputed by Alphonso

Definition

n. a subject of discourse or argument: a matter.—adj. Top′ical pertaining to a place: local: relating to a topic or subject: relating to things of local interest.—adv. Top′ically with reference to a particular place or topic.

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Examples

Checker: Lorrie

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