subscribe

Everyday

1. To pay regularly to get something, such as a magazine, a streaming service or a newspaper. tree →
2. To sign up to get updates, emails or videos from a channel or website, often for free. tree →
3. (formal) To agree with or support an idea or belief: «I don't subscribe to that view». tree →
4. (formal) To give money regularly to a charity or club. tree →

In the lessons

In everyday life children see «subscribe» on video channels and apps. Families subscribe to magazines or TV services, which costs money each month — a common maths problem: monthly cost × number of months. In formal writing «subscribe to an idea» means to believe it. Phrases: «subscribe to», «like and subscribe», «subscribe for free».

Examples

• We subscribe to a science magazine for kids. tree →
• Dad subscribes to a music service for £10 a month. tree →
• Don't subscribe to anything online without asking a grown-up. tree →
• (formal) I do not subscribe to the idea that maths is boring. tree →
• Click here to subscribe to our newsletter. tree →
• If you subscribe for 12 months at $5 a month, you pay $60. tree →
• My cousin's channel has thousands of people who subscribe. tree →
• Yes, how many tears I have wept in the fifty years I have subscribed to the theatre!" tree →

Note

Always «subscribe to» something. Noun: «subscription»; person: «subscriber». In maths, a subscription is a repeated payment: multiply the price by the number of months or weeks. Safety: subscriptions can keep charging money until you cancel, so check with an adult.

In Jewish tradition

In these texts, to "subscribe" means to sign a document with one's hand, or to declare oneself belonging to God.

Interpretation. Jeremiah's signing of the field deed is read as faith that Israel would return to the land. In Isaiah, writing "of the LORD" on the hand is read as people proudly joining Israel.

Examples

• And I subscribed the deed, and sealed it, and called witnesses, and weighed him the money in the balances. (Prophets JER.32.10, JPS 1917) tree →
• And yet for all this we make a sure covenant, and subscribe it; and our princes, our Levites, and our priests, set their seal unto it. (Writings NEH.10.1, JPS 1917) tree →
• One shall say: 'I am the LORD'S'; and another shall call himself by the name of Jacob; and another shall subscribe with his hand unto the LORD, and surname himself by the name of Israel. (Prophets ISA.44.5, JPS 1917) tree →

Note

Always «subscribe to» something. Noun: «subscription»; person: «subscriber». In maths, a subscription is a repeated payment: multiply the price by the number of months or weeks. Safety: subscriptions can keep charging money until you cancel, so check with an adult.