object
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɒb.d͡ʒɛkt/
enpr: ŏb'jĕkt
ipa: /əbˈd͡ʒɛkt/
enpr: əb-jĕkt'
ipa: /ˈɑb.d͡ʒɛkt/
rhymes: -ɛkt
Forms: form: objects
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.
Senses: glosses: A thing that has physical existence but is not alive.
examples: text: Money is an Object to you?
Money is an Object to me.
ref: 1825, Accounts and Papers, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords, page 91:
text: 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.
ref: 1860, Thomas Fenner Curtis, The Progress of Baptist Principles in the Last Hundred Years, page 161:
text: […] 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.
ref: 1863, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, Reports from Committees, page 240:
text: 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.
ref: 1877, South Australia. Parliament, Proceedings of the Parliament of South Australia: With Copies of Documents Ordered to be Printed ..., page 29:
text: 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.
glosses: Objective; goal, end or purpose of something.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
coordinate_terms: subject
;
agent
patient
rheme
theme
glosses: 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.
examples: text: Mary Jane had been the object of Peter's affection for years.
text: The convertible, once the object of his desire, was now the object of his hatred.
text: Where's your object of ridicule now?
glosses: A person or thing toward which an emotion is directed.
examples: text: Money is no object to him.
glosses: A person or thing toward which an emotion is directed.
A cause for attention or concern.
raw_tags: in the negative
qualifier: object-oriented programming
glosses: An instantiation of a class or structure.
examples: text: Similarly, there is a category whose objects are groups and whose arrows are the homomorphisms from one group to another.
topics: category-theory
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: An instance of one of the two kinds of entities that form a category, the other kind being the arrows (also called morphisms).
examples: c. 1610s, George Chapman, Batrachomyomachia
He, advancing close / Up to the lake, past all the rest, arose / In glorious object.
glosses: Sight; show; appearance; aspect.
Synonyms: sense: thing
word: article
sense: thing
word: item
sense: thing
word: thing
sense: person or thing toward which an emotion is directed
word: target
Hyponyms: word: art object
word: binary large object
word: cost object
word: depicted object
word: exponential object
word: found object
word: initial object
word: object of art
word: prepositional object
word: sex object
word: Thorne-Żytkow object
word: unidentified flying object
sense: Hyponyms of object (astronomy)
word: celestial object
sense: Hyponyms of object (astronomy)
word: deep-sky object
sense: Hyponyms of object (astronomy)
word: Herbig-Haro object
sense: Hyponyms of object (astronomy)
word: Kuiper belt object
sense: Hyponyms of object (astronomy)
word: Messier object
sense: Hyponyms of object (astronomy)
word: superluminal object
sense: Hyponyms of object (object-oriented programming)
word: BL Lacertae object
sense: Hyponyms of object (object-oriented programming)
word: first-class object
sense: Hyponyms of object (object-oriented programming)
word: function object
sense: Hyponyms of object (object-oriented programming)
word: God object
sense: Hyponyms of object (object-oriented programming)
word: immutable object
sense: Hyponyms of object (object-oriented programming)
word: mock object
sense: Hyponyms of object (object-oriented programming)
word: mutable object
sense: Hyponyms of object (object-oriented programming)
word: native object
sense: Hyponyms of object (object-oriented programming)
word: non-traversable object
sense: Hyponyms of object (object-oriented programming)
word: null object
sense: Hyponyms of object (object-oriented programming)
word: second-class object
sense: Hyponyms of object (object-oriented programming)
word: terminal object
sense: Hyponyms of object (object-oriented programming)
word: third-class object
sense: Hyponyms of object (object-oriented programming)
word: traversable object
sense: Hyponyms of object (object-oriented programming)
word: value object
Derived terms: anti-object art
BL Lac object
blobject
blogject
bright shiny object
business object
cognate object
data access object
data transfer object
Edgeworth-Kuiper object
eternally collapsing object
group object
HH object
interobject
logject
massive and compact halo object
massive astronomical compact halo object
massive astrophysical compact halo object
massive compact halo object
metaobject
money is no object
multiobject
nanoobject
natural numbers object
near-Earth object
nonobject
object adapter pattern
objectal
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
objectification
objectify
objectionable
objectism
objectist
objective
objectization
objectize
object language
object lens
objectless
object lesson
objectlike
object manipulation
objectness
object orientation
object-oriented
object-oriented language
object oriented programming
object permanence
object pool pattern
object pronoun
object request broker
object sexuality
object show
objectsona
object-soul
object space
object thingy
objectual
object world
objet d’art
partial object
planetary object
post-object art
potentially hazardous object
quasi-stellar object
scattered disc object
subobject
superobject
Thorne-Zytkow object
Thorne–Zytkow object
Thorne–Żytkow object
total object
transitional object
trans-Neptunian object
unidentified submarine object
unidentified submerged object
verb-object
versioned object base
wayobject
zero object
Related terms: subject