object
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: category-theory
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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.
Affixes: ob-
Inflected forms:
form: objects
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: objects
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: objecting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: objected
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: objected
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A thing that has physical existence but is not alive.
pos: noun
gloss: Objective; goal, end or purpose of something.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
[…] 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.
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.
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
gloss: A person or thing toward which an emotion is directed.
pos: noun
examples: 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?
gloss: A person or thing toward which an emotion is directed.
pos: noun
examples: Money is no object to him.
gloss: An instantiation of a class or structure.
pos: noun
gloss: An instance of one of the two kinds of entities that form a category, the other kind being the arrows (also called morphisms).
pos: noun
examples: Similarly, there is a category whose objects are groups and whose arrows are the homomorphisms from one group to another.
gloss: Sight; show; appearance; aspect.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: c. 1610s, George Chapman, Batrachomyomachia
He, advancing close / Up to the lake, past all the rest, arose / In glorious object.
gloss: To disagree with or oppose something or someone; (especially in a Court of Law) to raise an objection.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: I object to the proposal to build a new airport terminal.
We strongly object to sending her to jail for ten years.
“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.
gloss: To offer in opposition as a criminal charge or by way of accusation or reproach; to adduce as an objection or adverse reason.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: 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,
There are others who will object the poverty of the nation.
The book […] giveth liberty to object any crime against any such as are to be ordered.
gloss: To set before or against; to bring into opposition; to oppose.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: 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
Pallas to their eyes / The mist objected, and condens'd the skies.
Synonyms: target
demur
except
take exception
Related words: subject
Derived words: 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
hidden-object game
instrument-shaped 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
counterobject
objectable
objectant
objectee
objection
objector
Translations:
lang: Asturian
word: oxetu
lang: Bulgarian
word: обе́кт
roman: obékt
lang: Catalan
word: objecte
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 對象 /对象
roman: duìxiàng
lang: Danish
word: genstand
lang: Finnish
word: kohde
lang: French
word: objet
lang: Galician
word: obxecto
lang: German
word: Objekt
lang: Greek
word: αντικείμενο
roman: antikeímeno
lang: Hungarian
word: tárgy
lang: Hungarian
word: célpont
lang: Italian
word: oggetto
lang: Japanese
word: 対象
roman: taishō
lang: Khmer
word: វត្ថុវិស័យ
roman: vŏətthoʼ visay
lang: Korean
word: 대상
roman: daesang
lang: Māori
word: rauwene
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: gjenstand
lang: Polish
word: przedmiot
lang: Polish
word: obiekt
lang: Portuguese
word: objetivo
lang: Romanian
word: obiect
lang: Russian
word: объе́кт
roman: obʺjékt
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: објекат
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: објект
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: objekat
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: objekt
lang: Sindhi
word: نشانو
roman: ̃śāno
lang: Swedish
word: föremål
lang: Tamil
word: நபர்
roman: napar
lang: Tamil
word: ஆள்
roman: āḷ
lang: Tamil
word: பொருள்
roman: poruḷ
lang: Vietnamese
word: đối tượng