English Dictionary

topic

/ˈtɒpɪk/

noun

Subject; theme; a category or general area of interest. / (Internet) Discussion thread. / (music) A musical sign intended to suggest a particular style or genre. / (obsolete) An argument or reason.

The topic of today's discussion is climate change.

意味（1）

Subject; theme; a category or general area of interest.

A society where a topic cannot be discussed, does not have free speech.

意味（2）

(Internet) Discussion thread.

意味（3）

(music) A musical sign intended to suggest a particular style or genre.

In Peircean terms, topics are interpretants: signifieds that become new signifiers in the endless semiotic chain of interpretations.

意味（4）

(obsolete) An argument or reason.

contumacious persons, who are not to be fixed by any principles, whom no topics can work upon

意味（5）

(obsolete, medicine) An external local application or remedy, such as a plaster, a blister, etc.

Amongst topics or outward medicines none are more precious than baths.