Definition: subscribe

Source: WordNet (r) 1.7

subscribe
     v 1: off to buy, as of stocks and shares: "The broker subscribed
          500 shares"
     2: mark with one's signature; write one's name (on); "She
        signed the letter and sent it off"; "Please sign here"
        [syn: sign]
     3: adopt as a belief; "I subscribe to your view on abortion"
        [syn: support]
     4: receive or obtain by regular payment; "We take the Times
        every day" [syn: subscribe to, take]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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.

            [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.

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.

Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (2003-OCT-10)

subscribe

   <messaging> 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)