object
- object
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noun
1 solid thing
ADJECTIVE
▪ inanimate
▪ solid, three-dimensional
▪ large, small
▪ heavy, sharp, etc.
▪ egg-shaped, V-shaped, etc.
▪ man-made
▪ common, everyday, familiar, household
▪ Her paintings are of ordinary everyday objects.
▪ decorative
▪ flying, moving
▪ stationary
▪ distant
▪ material, physical
▪ sacred
▪ foreign
▪ people who claim to have found foreign objects in cans
▪ sex, sexual
▪ He regards women as nothing more than sexual objects.
2 purpose
ADJECTIVE
▪ main, primary, principal
▪ sole
▪ My sole object is to get to the bottom of this mystery.
OBJECT + NOUN
▪ lesson
▪ The plans are an object lesson in how to ruin a city.
PHRASES
▪ the object of the exercise (esp. BrE), the object of the game
▪ The object of the game is to score as many points as possible.
▪ It would defeat the object of the exercise if we paid someone to do it for us.
{{Roman}}II.{{/Roman}} verb
ADVERB
▪ strenuously, strongly, vehemently
VERB + OBJECT
▪ can hardly
▪ It was your own idea in the first place, so you can hardly object now.
▪ be entitled to (esp. BrE), have a/the right to
PREPOSITION
▪ to
▪ a petition objecting to the plan
PHRASES
▪ object on the grounds that …
▪ I objected on the grounds that it was unkind to the animals.
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Object — may refer to: Object (philosophy), a thing, being or concept Entity, something that is tangible and within the grasp of the senses As used in object relations theories of psychoanalysis, that to which a subject relates. Object (grammar), a… … Wikipedia
Object — Ob ject ([o^]b j[e^]kt), n. [L. objectus. See {Object}, v. t.] 1. That which is put, or which may be regarded as put, in the way of some of the senses; something visible or tangible and persists for an appreciable time; as, he observed an object… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
object — ob·ject 1 / äb jikt/ n 1: something toward which thought, feeling, or action is directed see also natural object 2: the purpose or goal of something; esp in the civil law of Louisiana: the purpose for which a contract or obligation is formed… … Law dictionary
Object-Z — is an object oriented extension to the Z notation developed at the University of Queensland, Australia. Object Z extends Z by the addition of language constructs resembling the object oriented paradigm, most notably, classes. Other object… … Wikipedia
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object — object, objective nouns. Both words have the meaning ‘something sought or aimed at’ and in practice they are often interchangeable, although object is more common when followed by a qualifying construction, e.g. one with in or of (and is… … Modern English usage
object — [äb′jikt, äbjekt; ] for v. [ əb jekt′, äbjekt′] n. [ME < ML objectum, something thrown in the way < L objectus, a casting before, that which appears, orig. pp. of objicere < ob (see OB ) + jacere, to throw: see JET1] 1. a thing that can… … English World dictionary
Object — Ob*ject ([o^]b*j[e^]kt ), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Objected}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Objecting}.] [L. objectus, p. p. of objicere, obicere, to throw or put before, to oppose; ob (see {Ob }) + jacere to throw: cf. objecter. See {Jet} a shooting forth.] 1.… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
object# — object n 1 *thing, article Analogous words: *affair, concern, matter, thing: *form, figure, shape, configuration 2 objective, goal, end, aim, design, purpose, *intention, intent Analogous words: * … New Dictionary of Synonyms
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object — the noun [14] and object the verb [15] have diverged considerably over the centuries, but they come from the same ultimate source: Latin obicere. This was a compound verb formed from the prefix ob ‘towards’ and jacere ‘throw’ (source of English… … The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins
