# object
## English
### Etymology

From Old French object, from Medieval Latin obiectum (“object”, literally “thrown against”), from obiectus, perfect passive participle of obiciō (“I throw against”), from ob- (“against”) +‎ iaciō (“I throw”), as a calque of Ancient Greek ἀντικείμενον (antikeímenon). Doublet of objectum and objet.

### Pronunciation

* (noun)
** (UK) enPR: ŏb'jĕkt, IPA: /ˈɒb.d͡ʒɛkt/
** (US) enPR: ŏb'jĕkt, IPA: /ˈɑb.d͡ʒɛkt/
** Audio (US):(file)
* (verb)
** (UK, US) enPR: əb-jĕkt', IPA: /əbˈd͡ʒɛkt/
** Audio (US):(file)
** Rhymes: -ɛkt

### Noun

object (plural objects)
* A thing that has physical existence but is not alive.
* Objective; goal, end or purpose of something.
** 1825, Accounts and Papers, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords, page 91:Money is an Object to you? Money is an Object to me.
** 1860, Thomas Fenner Curtis, The Progress of Baptist Principles in the Last Hundred Years, page 161: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.
** 1863, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, Reports from Committees, page 240:[…] to secure first-class men you must either hold out a temptation of money, if money is an object to them, or if it is not, then after a certain number of years' service, perhaps, some honour to be bestowed upon them; one or the other, I think, ought to be given to secure the best men that you can.
** 1877, South Australia. Parliament, Proceedings of the Parliament of South Australia: With Copies of Documents Ordered to be Printed ..., page 29:I think, if a captain had plenty of time to spare, and was not going on to any other port, he would prefer going into harbor; but if time were an object with him, and he wished to get away as quickly as possible, he would go to the pier outside.
** 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.
* (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.
    Hyponyms: direct object, indirect object
    Coordinate terms: subject; agent, patient, rheme, theme
* 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.
* (category theory) 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.
* (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.

#### Synonyms

* (thing): article, item, thing
* (person or thing toward which an emotion is directed): target
* See also Thesaurus:goal

#### Hyponyms

* art object
* binary large object
* cost object
* depicted object
* exponential object
* found object
* initial object
* object of art
* prepositional object
* sex object
* Thorne-Żytkow object
* unidentified flying object
* celestial object
* deep-sky object
* Herbig-Haro object
* Kuiper belt object
* Messier object
* superluminal object
* 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

* anti-object art
* BL Lac object
* bright shiny object
* business object
* cognate object
* data access object
* data transfer object
* Edgeworth-Kuiper object
* eternally collapsing object
* group object
* massive and compact halo object
* massive astronomical compact halo object
* massive astrophysical compact halo object
* massive compact halo object
* money is no object
* natural numbers object
* near-Earth object
* object adapter pattern
* object ball
* object-based
* object-based language
* object-based programming
* object blindness
* object camp
* object clause
* object code
* object complement
* object-control
* object finder
* object glass
* object graph
* object head
* objecthood
* objectify
* objectionable
* objective
* object language
* object lens
* object lesson
* object manipulation
* object orientation
* object-oriented
* object-oriented language
* object oriented programming
* object permanence
* object pool pattern
* object pronoun
* object request broker
* object sexuality
* object show
* object-soul
* object space
* object thingy
* object world
* objet d’art
* partial object
* planetary object
* post-object art
* potentially hazardous object
* quasi-stellar object
* scattered disc object
* Thorne-Zytkow object
* Thorne–Żytkow object
* Thorne–Zytkow object
* total object
* transitional object
* trans-Neptunian object
* unidentified submarine object
* unidentified submerged object
* verb-object
* versioned object base
* zero object

#### Translations

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#### See also

* subject

### 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.
** 1975, Yao (孟瑤) Meng, “Homeward Bound”, in An Anthology of Contemporary Chinese Literature: Taiwan, 1949-1974‎, volume 2, Taipei: China Printing, Ltd., →OCLC, page 33:“It’s only a few minutes from Nankang to Hsichih, my friends. Kindly make room for the lady,” the driver was all unctuous smiles, and spoke as though nobody was going to object after he had given the word.
* (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, [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, “Book VI, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC: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, John Whitgift, 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, “Book VIII”, in [William Broome], transl., The Odyssey of Homer. […], volume II, London: […] Bernard Lintot, →OCLC:Pallas to their eyes / The mist objected, and condens'd the skies.

#### Synonyms

* except
* take exception

#### Derived terms

* objection

#### Translations
## Dutch
### Etymology

From Middle French [Term?], from Old French object, from Latin obiectum.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɔpˈjɛkt/, /ɔˈbjɛkt/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: ob‧ject

### Noun

object n (plural objecten, diminutive objectje n)
* object, item
* (grammar) object

#### Related terms

* objectief
* objectiviteit
* subject

#### Descendants

* Afrikaans: objek
* → Indonesian: objek