object
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (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.
2. A person or thing toward which an emotion is directed.Examples: "Money is no object to him."
3. (object-oriented programming) An instantiation of a class or structure.
4. (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).Examples: "Similarly, there is a category whose objects are groups and whose arrows are the homomorphisms from one group to another."
5. (obsolete) Sight; show; appearance; aspect.Examples: "c. 1610s, George Chapman, Batrachomyomachia He, advancing close / Up to the lake, past all the rest, arose / In glorious object."obsolete
verb (English)
1. (intransitive) To disagree with or oppose something or someone; (especially in a Court of Law) to raise an objection.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."intransitive
2. (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.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."obsoletetransitive
3. (transitive, obsolete) To set before or against; to bring into opposition; to oppose.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."obsoletetransitive
Definition source: Wiktionary