object
noun
- thing
- part of speech: the noun that the verb acts upon
- material object
- data type within programming languages
verb
- to disagree, refute, complain
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ˈɒb.d͡ʒɛkt/ / /ˈɑb.d͡ʒɛkt/ / /əbˈd͡ʒɛkt/
noun
Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁ep-der. Proto-Indo-European *h₁épsder. Proto-Indo-European *h₁óp(i) Proto-Italic *op Latin ob Latin ob- Proto-Indo-European *(H)yeh₁- Proto-Indo-European *(H)ih₁kyeti Proto-Italic *jīkjō Proto-Italic *jakjōder. Latin iaciō Latin obiciō Latin obiectus Medieval Latin obiectum Old French objectbor. English object From Old French object, from Medieval Latin obiectum (“object”, literally “thrown against”), from obiectus, perfect passive participle of obiciō (“to throw against”), from ob- (“against”) + iaciō (“to throw”), as a calque of Ancient Greek ἀντικείμενον (antikeímenon). Doublet of objectum and objet.
- A thing that has physical existence but is not alive.
- Objective; goal, end or purpose of something.
“Money is an Object to you? Money is an Object to me.”
“And yet it may be proper to show that if time were an object, little, if any thing, would necessarily be gained by sprinkling in place of immersion, where a large number had to be baptized.”
- The noun phrase which is an internal complement of a verb phrase or a prepositional phrase. In a verb phrase with a transitive action verb, it is typically the receiver of the action.
- A person or thing toward which an emotion is directed.
“Mary Jane had been the object of Peter's affection for years.”
“The convertible, once the object of his desire, was now the object of his hatred.”
- A person or thing toward which an emotion is directed.
“Money is no object to him.”
- An instantiation of a class or structure.
- An instance of one of the two kinds of entities that form a category, the other kind being the arrows (also called morphisms).
“Similarly, there is a category whose objects are groups and whose arrows are the homomorphisms from one group to another.”
- Sight; show; appearance; aspect.
“c. 1610s, George Chapman, Batrachomyomachia He, advancing close / Up to the lake, past all the rest, arose / In glorious object.”
verb
Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁ep-der. Proto-Indo-European *h₁épsder. Proto-Indo-European *h₁óp(i) Proto-Italic *op Latin ob Latin ob- Proto-Indo-European *(H)yeh₁- Proto-Indo-European *(H)ih₁kyeti Proto-Italic *jīkjō Proto-Italic *jakjōder. Latin iaciō Latin obiciō Latin obiectus Medieval Latin obiectum Old French objectbor. English object From Old French object, from Medieval Latin obiectum (“object”, literally “thrown against”), from obiectus, perfect passive participle of obiciō (“to throw against”), from ob- (“against”) + iaciō (“to throw”), as a calque of Ancient Greek ἀντικείμενον (antikeímenon). Doublet of objectum and objet.
- To disagree with or oppose something or someone; (especially in a Court of Law) to raise an objection.
“I object to the proposal to build a new airport terminal.”
“We strongly object to sending her to jail for ten years.”
- To offer in opposition as a criminal charge or by way of accusation or reproach; to adduce as an objection or adverse reason.
“We thanke you both, yet one but flatters vs, As well appeareth by the cauſe you come, Namely, to appeale each other of high treaſon. Cooſin of Hereford, what doſt thou obiect Againſt the Duke of Norfolke, Thomas Mowbray?”
“He 'gan to him object his heinous Crime,”
- To set before or against; to bring into opposition; to oppose.
“early 17th century, Edward Fairfax, Godfrey of Bulloigne: or The recovery of Jerusalem. Of less account some knight thereto object, / Whose loss so great and harmful can not prove.”
“c. 1678, Richard Hooker, a sermon some strong impediment or other objecting itself”