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Meaning object meaning

What does object mean?
Definitions in simple English

object Noun

— An object is a thing that you can touch, but it is not alive. We don't know what killed him, but it was a smooth, heavy object. — The object of an action or plan is the goal or the reason for it. The object of soccer is to kick the ball into the other team's net. — In English grammar, the object of a sentence is a noun or noun phrase that usually comes after the verb. This noun is usually the thing that is receiving the action. In the sentence, "Yoko ate the bread.", bread is the object.

object Verb

— If you object to something, you don't agree with it. Most people will object to being asked to work too much.

object

— noun a tangible and visible entity; an entity that can cast a shadow it was full of rackets, balls and other objects — verb express or raise an objection or protest or criticism or express dissent She never objected to the amount of work her boss charged her with When asked to drive the truck, she objected that she did not have a driver's license — noun the goal intended to be attained (and which is believed to be attainable) the sole object of her trip was to see her children — noun (grammar) a constituent that is acted upon the object of the verb — noun the focus of cognitions or feelings objects of thought the object of my affection — noun (computing) a discrete item that provides a description of virtually anything known to a computer in object-oriented programming, objects include data and define its status, its methods of operation and how it interacts with other objects — verb be averse to or express disapproval of My wife objects to modern furniture

Synonyms object synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as object?

object English » English

thing purpose aim article oppose objective item goal target protest matter intention end subject contradict substance resist motive disagree design body remonstrate mark dissent stuff pronoun point destination affair theme reject refuse mind material intent expostulate complement cause case business be against withstand view topic something sake repugn reproach reason raise objections

Topics object topics

What do people use object to talk about?
Language and thought Want Decide, plan

Purpose, goal
Language and thought Communication Say Criticize

Complain
Grammar General words

Thing
Language and thought Think Opinion Agree with someone

Protest
Social behavior Conflict Hostility

Oppose

Conjugation object conjugation

How do you conjugate object?

object · verb

Examples object examples

How do I use object in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Do you object to my idea?
What is this object used for?
Send me the best employees that money can buy. Money is no object.
A valuable object decreases in value if it is damaged.
In English the verb precedes the object.
A tiny object moved in the dark.
The object of the journey was to visit Grandma.
The object flew away to the south, giving out flashes of light.
The surface of the object is fairly rough.
Can you describe the object?
The painter went to Paris with the object of studying painting.
Jack has no object in life.
You must not lose sight of your main object.
Do you object to smoking?
I wouldn't object if you wanted to go with her.
Work is not the object of life any more than play is.
I object to you going to Europe alone.
I found a strange object lying on the road.

Movie subtitles

Oh ho ho! Now, look here, hillcrist. I don't object to you personally.
Having achieved her purpose, the woman became a statue once more, or, in other words, an inhuman object with black gloves in contrast to the snow upon which her steps would no longer leave a trace.
I Object!
I OBJECT.
YOU OBJECT?
I SAY, LOOK AT CHICOLINI, HE SITS THERE ALONE, A PITIABLE OBJECT.
EVEN I OBJECT.
I OBJECT TOO.
And suppose I object?
Possibly, that's their object.
You are becoming an object of disagreeable gossip.
Uh, didn't he have some object?
That's as grisly a looking object as I've ever seen.
Did you think we might object?
We've spotted a moving object, and we're giving chase, but we're still not able to identify it.
Jean thought he had become an object of horror to his family.
Prosecutor, do you object to hearing this new testimony?
I strongly object to this last-minute demonstration.
Perhaps I have no right to object to any word.
Young man, I want you to know that I object violently to this whole affair.
Why don't you object?
He sits there alone, a pitiable object.
Even I object.
I object, too.
You can't object!
Price is no object, Miss Julie.
Yes Jane, I don't object to anything.
They'd like to come with us, if you don't object.
You don't think the big boss will object.
Object?
Look at Chicolini. He sits there alone, a pitiable object.
I object. - Even I object.
You are now an object of derision and shame to your comrades.
I found the first object for our foundation to crush.
It's natural for him to object.
I object. No more work.
Beneath the bed, I was to leave. an object no larger than a can of sardines.
I would then be given the object.

News and current affairs

In particular, they object to the plan's proposal to give increased powers and responsibilities to the Secretary General, whose selection is effectively in the hands of the Security Council's five permanent members, which wield veto power.
Others object to specific rights which they say reflect Western cultural bias, the most troublesome here being women's rights.
Some might object that these events were not really social epidemics like speculative bubbles, because a totalitarian government ordered them, and the resulting deaths reflect government mismanagement more than investment error.
When the main object of human consumption was food, this was not a problem, because what mattered was land and water.
Some will object that there is little point in creating GDP-linked bonds in advanced countries, because there is little uncertainty about GDP growth there.
And some NGO leaders object that their own, very different anti-corruption agenda is being pre-empted by Hazare's demands.
The US naively continues to view the Middle East as an object of manipulation, whether for oil or for other purposes.
The discussion has so far followed easily predictable national patterns: Creditor countries do not object to deflation, because it increases the real value of their investment, whereas debtor countries' repayment burdens would grow heavier.
Most Central and Eastern European countries, however, object.
Indeed, he may not even object to ruining the EU's entire legislative engine by granting national parliaments a veto.
The object was plain: to gain a Russian, and consequently, a Chinese abstention.
It is an object and, nevertheless, it seems to be free.
They claim that Western countries object to whaling because, for them, whales are a special kind of animal, as cows are for Hindus.
Many people object to business managers who take away in pay, bonuses, and stock options hundreds of millions of dollars from their companies.
But Germany and others object in principle to discriminating against EU citizens, and countries such as Poland and the Czech Republic are vehemently opposed to measures that would disproportionately harm their citizens.
If it gets carried away and presumes to talk down to the 5,000-year-old culture of the Sages, the West could become the next object of China's nationalist resentment.
One might object to comparing America's desire to export democracy at the barrel of a gun to Russia's imperial death spasms under Yeltsin and Putin.
And Brunei Darussalam, with a population of less than 500,000, is unlikely to object.
Experts nonetheless believe that hemoglobin-based products can be used to save the lives of trauma patients, as well as to treat patients who object to donated blood on religious grounds (for example, Jehovah's Witnesses).
Since the seventeenth-century, Africa has been mainly an object of history.
And, as Africa returns as a subject, rather than an object, of world history, it appears to embody all the fears and hopes of humanity.
Presumably, Putin would not object to the infliction of such damage behind closed doors, during a debriefing with the Russian security services.
Some object strongly to the idea of using economic tools to weigh the world's biggest problems.
Indeed, the belief that the EU would renegotiate Britain's membership terms - which assumes, further, that Germany would not object - borders on magical thinking.
If Europe today does not become the agent of its own destiny, it will become the object of new world powers.
But all define the obese as an object for intervention.
India can no longer simply object to proposals by developed countries; it must put its own proposals on the table.
Some will object that this idea won't work because it runs counter to greedy human nature.

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