object

Noun

object (plural objects)

1. A thing that has physical existence but is not alive.

   Synonyms:

   article, item, thing

2. Objective; goal, end or purpose of something.
   • Money is an Object to you?
   • Money is an Object to me.1825, Accounts and Papers, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords, page 91
3. 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.
4. A person or thing toward which an emotion is directed.
   • Mary Jane had been the object of Peter's affection for years.
   • The convertible, once the object of his desire, was now the object of his hatred.
   1. A cause for attention or concern.
      • the object of a strongly worded censure
      • Money is no object to him.
5. (object-oriented programming) An instantiation of a class or structure.
6. An instance of one of the two kinds of entities that form a category, the other kind being the arrows (also called morphisms).
   • Similarly, there is a category whose objects are groups and whose arrows are the homomorphisms from one group to another.
7. (obsolete) Sight; show; appearance; aspect.
   • He, advancing close / Up to the lake, past all the rest, arose / In glorious object.c. 1610s, George Chapman, Batrachomyomachia

Verb

UK/əbˈd͡ʒɛkt/

object (third-person singular simple present objects, present participle objecting, simple past and past participle objected)

1. (intransitive) To disagree with or oppose something or someone; (especially in a Court of Law) to raise an objection.
   • I object to the proposal to build a new airport terminal.
   • We strongly object to sending her to jail for ten years.
2. (obsolete, transitive) To offer in opposition as a criminal charge or by way of accusation or reproach; to adduce as an objection or adverse reason.
   • 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?1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to...
   • He 'gan to him object his heinous Crime,1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
3. (obsolete, transitive) To set before or against; to bring into opposition; to oppose.
   • 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.
   • some strong impediment or other objecting itselfc. 1678, Richard Hooker, a sermon