object
Overview
This page has 12 definitions of object in English and Dutch, Flemish. Object is a noun and verb. Examples of how to use object in a sentence are shown. Also define these 26 related words and terms: thing, physical, existence, objective, goal, end, purpose, grammar, noun phrase, complement, verb phrase, prepositional phrase, transitive, instantiation, class, structure, category theory, element, category, function, disagree, oppose, raise, objection, object, and item.
English
Etymology
From Latin obiectum (“object”, literally “thrown against”), from obiectus, perfect passive participle of obiciō (“I throw against”), from ob- (“against”) + iaciō (“I throw”), as a gloss of Ancient Greek ἀντικείμενον (antikeímenon).
Pronunciation
- (noun)
Noun
object (plural objects)
- A thing that has physical existence.
Physical definition
Of medicine.- Pertaining to the field of medicine; medical.
- That practises medicine; pertaining to doctors, physicianly.
- Medicinal; good for the health, curative, therapeutic.
Existence definition
The state of being, existing, or occurring; beinghood. (1 of 2 existence definitions)
- Objective; the goal, end or purpose of something.
- 2000, Phyllis Barkas Goldman & John Grigni, Monkeyshines on Ancient Cultures
- The object of tlachtli was to keep the rubber ball from touching the ground while trying to push it to the opponent's endline.
Objective definition
Of or relating to a material object, actual existence or reality. (1 of 5 objective definitions)
- 2000, Phyllis Barkas Goldman & John Grigni, Monkeyshines on Ancient Cultures
- (grammar) 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.
Grammar definition
A system of rules and principles for speaking and writing a language. (1 of 9 grammar definitions)
Noun Phrase definition
A phrase that can serve as the subject or the object of a verb; it is usually headed by a noun, (including pronouns), with any associated dependents such as determiners or modifiers.
Complement definition
Something (or someone) that completes; the consummation. (1 of 23 complement definitions)
Verb Phrase definition
A construction in a clause consisting of a verb and its internal complements, objects, or modifiers. (1 of 2 verb phrase definitions)
Prepositional Phrase definition
A phrase containing both a preposition and its object or complement; may be used as an adjunct or a modifier.
- 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.
- Where's your object of ridicule now?
- (object-oriented programming) An instantiation of a class or structure.
Instantiation definition
The production of an instance, example, or specific application of a general classification, principle, theory, etc. (1 of 3 instantiation definitions)
Class definition
A group, collection, category or set sharing characteristics or attributes. (1 of 15 class definitions)
- (category theory) An element within a category upon which functions operate. Thus, a category consists of a set of element objects and the functions that operate on them.
Category Theory definition
A branch of mathematics which deals with spaces and maps between them in abstraction, taking similar theorems from various disparate more concrete branches of mathematics and unifying them.
Element definition
One of the simplest or essential parts or principles of which anything consists, or upon which the constitution or fundamental powers of anything are based. (1 of 14 element definitions)
Category definition
A group, often named or numbered, to which items are assigned based on similarity or defined criteria. (1 of 2 category definitions)
Function definition
What something does or is used for. (1 of 10 function definitions)
- (obsolete) Sight; show; appearance; aspect.
- c. 1610s, George Chapman, Batrachomyomachia
- He, advancing close / Up to the lake, past all the rest, arose / In glorious object.
- c. 1610s, George Chapman, Batrachomyomachia
Synonyms
- (thing): article, item, thing
- (person or thing toward which an emotion is directed): target
- See also Thesaurus:goal
Hyponyms
- art object
- depicted object
- direct object
- exponential object
- foreign object
- found object
- indirect object
- initial object
- natural object
- physical object
- prepositional object
- retained object
- sex object
- unidentified flying object
Hyponyms of object (astronomy)
- celestial object
- deep-sky object
- Herbig-Haro object
- Kuiper belt object
- Messier object
- superluminal object
Hyponyms of object (object-oriented programming)
- first-class object
- function object
- God object
- immutable object
- mock object
- mutable object
- native object
- non-traversable object
- null object
- second-class object
- terminal object
- third-class object
- traversable object
- value object
Derived terms
Related terms
- object ball
- object blindness
- object code
- object complement
- object glass
- object graph
- object language
- object lens
- object lesson
- object orientation
- object-oriented
- object pronoun
- object space
- objet d'art
- objet d’art
Translations
thing
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the goal, end or purpose of something
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in grammar
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person or thing to which an emotion is directed
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in object-oriented programming
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References
Verb
object (third-person singular simple present objects, present participle objecting, simple past and past participle objected)
- (intransitive) 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.
Disagree definition
To fail to agree; to have a different opinion or belief. (1 of 2 disagree definitions)
Oppose definition
To attempt to stop the progression of; to resist or antagonize by physical means, or by arguments, etc.; to contend against. (1 of 4 oppose definitions)
- (transitive, obsolete) To offer in opposition as a criminal charge or by way of accusation or reproach; to adduce as an objection or adverse reason.
- 1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The life and death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act I, scene i], page 23, column 1:
- 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?
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, book VI, canto VII:
- He 'gan to him object his heinous Crime,
- 1708, Joseph Addison, The Present State of the War, and the Necessity of an Augmentation
- There are others who will object the poverty of the nation.
- 1571, Admonition to the Parliament:
- The book […] giveth liberty to object any crime against any such as are to be ordered.
- (transitive, obsolete) 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
- 1725, Homer; [William Broome], transl., “Book VIII”, in The Odyssey of Homer. […], volume II, London: Printed for Bernard Lintot, OCLC 8736646:
- Pallas to their eyes / The mist objected, and condens'd the skies.
- early 17th century, Edward Fairfax, Godfrey of Bulloigne: or The recovery of Jerusalem.
Derived terms
Translations
disagree with something or someone
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Dutch
Etymology
From Middle French [Term?], from Old French object, from Latin obiectum.
Pronunciation
Noun
object n (plural objecten, diminutive objectje n)