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object

▶noun /ˈɒbdʒɪkt, -dʒɛkt/

1 a material thing that can be seen and touched.
■ Philosophy a thing external to the thinking mind or subject.

2 a person or thing to which an action or feeling is directed: she was the object of attention.

3 a goal or purpose.

4 Grammar a noun or noun phrase governed by an active transitive verb or by a preposition.

5 Computing a package of information containing both data and a description of its manipulation, that can perform specific tasks.

▶verb /əbˈdʒɛkt/ express disapproval or opposition.

– phrases
no object not influencing or restricting choices or decisions: a tycoon for whom money is no object.

– derivatives
objectless adjective,
objector noun.

– origin ME: from med. L. objectum ‘thing presented to the mind’, neut. past part. of L. obicere, from ob- ‘in the way of’ + jacere ‘to throw’.

'object' also found in these Oxford entries:

aberration - absolute - absolutely - absolute magnitude - accusative - acquisition - actant - active - adhesive - altitude - amplitude - anaglyph - anchor - ankh - annulus - anthropomorphism - anthropomorphous - antique - antiquity - apparent magnitude - apport - area - artefact - article - assemblage - at - attribute - autoradiograph - autorotation - azimuth - back - backwash - barb - barrel - bath - battering ram - beam - beggar-my-neighbour - belay - bell - bellows - bend - Benthamism - between - biomorph - bite - blade - blank - blip - blunt instrument

Forum discussions with the word(s) "object" in the title:

.... 'what' he thinks of the plan [direct object?]
'She asked me to wait for her' into complex object
"Awarded" used without its direct object
"rotate/turn/spin" the 3D object
"she" as an object
"to want" without the complex object
A good writer doesn't only write about an object, but also thinks like that object.
A part of the Predicate or Direct Object?
A sentence seemingly without an object
A weightless object hung in mid-air
Adjective tart: modifies subject or object?
Again, have + object + past participle.
Allow taking a direct object
An object complement
an object fell down on the ground
an object of activity of social work.
an object or the object that has the feature of..
an object vibrating.....
attribute or object complement?
blank object
Both and neither + object/subject pronoun
Can a direct object be headed by a preposition
Can a gerund be the object of "support"?
capital construction object
causative verb+adverb+object+...
cite needs object or preposition?
come with, go with without an object
consider "object" to be~
Consider + Object + to or ing verb?
correct use of the verb "open" with an object as subject)
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