Definitions for object

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object ob·ject

Spelling: [noun ob-jikt, -jekt; verb uh b- Object is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 17 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 21 points.

You can make 71 anagrams from letters in object (bcejot).

Definitions for object

noun

1. anything that is visible or tangible and is relatively stable in form.
2. a thing, person, or matter to which thought or action is directed:
3. the end toward which effort or action is directed; goal; purpose:
4. a person or thing with reference to the impression made on the mind or the feeling or emotion elicited in an observer:
5. anything that may be apprehended intellectually:
6. Optics. the thing of which a lens or mirror forms an image.
7. Grammar. (in many languages, as English) a noun, noun phrase, or noun substitute representing by its syntactical position either the goal of the action of a verb or the goal of a preposition in a prepositional phrase, as ball in John hit the ball, Venice in He came to Venice, coin and her in He gave her a coin. Compare direct object, indirect object.
8. Digital Technology. any item that can be individually selected or manipulated, as a picture, data file, or piece of text. in object-oriented programming, a self-contained entity that consists of both data and operations to manipulate the data.
9. Metaphysics. something toward which a cognitive act is directed.

verb (used with object)

1. to state, claim, or cite in opposition; put forward in objection, disagreement, or disapproval:
2. Archaic. to bring forward or adduce in opposition.

verb (used without object)

1. to offer a reason or argument in opposition.
2. to express or feel disapproval, dislike, or distaste; be averse.
3. to refuse or attempt to refuse to permit some action, speech, etc.

Origin of object

1325-75; (noun) Middle English: “something perceived, purpose, objection,” from Medieval Latin objectum “something thrown down or presented (to the mind),” noun use of neuter of Latin objectu

Examples for object

I remembered the object of my visit, and struggled for composure.

My object in calling upon him was to induce him to do me justice at last.

And who better to do that with than the actress who is playing the object of said (alleged) lesbian affection in the flick?

And for some clients, money was no object in getting their fantasies fulfilled.

"I shall not interfere with that arrangement," said the lawyer, misunderstanding his object.

The show, Bell Hooks argued in Black Looks: Race and Representation, “represents wom[e]n as the object of a phallocentric gaze.”

If they run off with somebody else, we say they were stolen—as if they are an object or a commodity.

This object, through the kindness of friends, was accomplished.

Hockney saw the object that would become the bane of office secretaries everywhere as bringing him closer to his art.

The object of her solicitude entered in dressing-gown and slippers.