object

Definitions


[ˈɒbdʒɛkt], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a material thing that can be seen and touched
(e.g: he was dragging a large object)

- a person or thing to which a specified action or feeling is directed
(e.g: disease became the object of investigation)

- a noun or noun phrase governed by an active transitive verb or by a preposition
(e.g: in Gaelic the word order is verb, subject, object)

- a data construct that provides a description of anything known to a computer (such as a processor or a piece of code) and defines its method of operation
(e.g: the interface treats most items, including cells, graphs, and buttons, as objects)


Phrases:
- no object
- the object of the exercise

Origin:
late Middle English: from medieval Latin objectum ‘thing presented to the mind’, neuter past participle (used as a noun) of Latin obicere, from ob- ‘in the way of’ + jacere ‘to throw’; the verb may also partly represent the Latin frequentative objectare


[əbˈdʒɛkt], (Verb)

Definitions:
- say something to express one's opposition to or disagreement with something
(e.g: residents object to the volume of traffic)


Phrases:
- no object
- the object of the exercise

Origin:
late Middle English: from medieval Latin objectum ‘thing presented to the mind’, neuter past participle (used as a noun) of Latin obicere, from ob- ‘in the way of’ + jacere ‘to throw’; the verb may also partly represent the Latin frequentative objectare




definition by Oxford Dictionaries