topic

IPA: tˈɑpɪk

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

Examples of "topic" in Sentences

$topic (35, ...) to truncate overly long topic names.
On to the title topic: the power of positive thinking.
Blogs and bloggers are everywhere on the net, no topic is short for them.
David Mamet does not so much explore the title topic of his new play as eviscerate it.
Description: Transcript, 50 pp. Abstract: The main topic is institutions in computing.
Chinese friends become silent when a certain topic is mentioned, or dismiss it with a few words.
Laura should have kept the focus on the title topic instead of the stupid red herring about weight ...
I've been setting the value fo the parent using passed URL params when the template is used to create a page. % META { "parent" format = "$topic" dontrecurse = "on"} % displays the parent of a topic:
Well, of course it's about the title topic, but in the process we're given the chance to ramble through a number of highways and byways that sometimes seem to have only a limited connection to the subject.
Just because some oversensitive misreading obsessives chose to launch flames at me for speaking the truth on subjects clearly within the title topic of “New Rape Culture and Gender Thread” makes them inflamed, not my posts inflammatory.