objects

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
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’.