Word Finder - object

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A thing that has physical existence.

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Objective; the goal, end or purpose of something.

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(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.

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A person or thing toward which an emotion is directed.

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Mary Jane had been the object of Peter's affection for years.

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An instantiation of a class or structure.

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An element within a category upon which functions operate. Thus, a category consists of a set of element objects and the functions that operate on them.

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Sight; show; appearance; aspect.

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To disagree with or oppose something or someone; (especially in a Court of Law) to raise an objection.

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I object to the proposal to build a new airport terminal.

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To offer in opposition as a criminal charge or by way of accusation or reproach; to adduce as an objection or adverse reason.

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To set before or against; to bring into opposition; to oppose.

He shoved a shiny red object at her.

She dropped the cloth and moved to the next object, which was obviously a painting.

Far up in the air was an object that looked like a balloon.

Before she could object, Kiki took charge again.

The object sitting in the middle of the table made his blood run cold.

You can object all you want.

Jonny frowned but didn't object again.

A slip on which was printed, in raised letters, the word BOX was placed on the object, and the same experiment was tried with a great many articles, but she did not immediately comprehend that the label-name represented the thing.

If that was the object, it was in vain.

I quickly learned that each printed word stood for an object, an act, or a quality.

Let him who has work to do recollect that the object of clothing is, first, to retain the vital heat, and secondly, in this state of society, to cover nakedness, and he may judge how much of any necessary or important work may be accomplished without adding to his wardrobe.

It was for many years an object of contention among the Spanish factions, but ultimately the greater attractions of Lima and its own isolation diminished its importance.

My hands felt every object and observed every motion, and in this way I learned to know many things.

And with that object he had asked Gerasim to get him a peasant's coat and a pistol, confiding to him his intentions of remaining in Joseph Alexeevich's house and keeping his name secret.

A trash bag was the highest-tech object Borlaug had.

He knew at once the object of her concern.

He might object to you, but I can convince him to take you.

I don't object to going some place.

Would you object to me checking her out?

The illumination of the field is given by a lamp near the object glass, controlled by a switch near the micrometer.

The object of those writings was to establish the all-pervading rule of mechanism.

Although the direct object of Pasteur was to prove a negative, yet it was on these experiments that sterilization as known to us was developed.

With the object of raising the spirits of the troops and of the people, reviews were constantly held and rewards distributed.

It is only necessary for one powerful nation like Russia--barbaric as she is said to be--to place herself disinterestedly at the head of an alliance having for its object the maintenance of the balance of power of Europe, and it would save the world!

This letter having no other object, I pray God, monsieur le Prince Koutouzov, to keep you in His holy and gracious protection!

She didn't move away or object when he allowed his palms to skim her curves, tracing down her sides to her hips then around to her tight bottom.

She was searching through her house for some unidentified object when a shadow emerged from the dark.

He stopped and picked up the object.

You're the first to object.

At long last, he found the object.

The city confers the title of marquis on the Osorio family, the ruins of whose palace, sacked in 1810 by the French, are still an object of interest.

In the apparatus of type B as made by Zeiss there are two microscopes attached to a base-plate, one of which views the spectrum-plate (or other object) to be measured, while the other views a scale that moves with the slide on which the spectrumplate is mounted.

The movement had no well-defined object.

A large proportion of the fossil remains, the determination and description of which was his object, were what are very commonly called the " long bones," that is to say, those of the limbs.

At this stage as a rule some rich slags of a former operation are added and a quantity of quicklime is incorporated, the chief object of which is to diminish the fluidity of the mass in the next stage, which consists in this, that, with closed air-holes, the heat is raised so as to cause the oxide and sulphate on the one hand and the sulphide on the other to reduce each other to metal.

Livius Drustis, passed with that object, but irregularly and by the aid of violence, was annulled by the senate itself.

Where is this division of labor to end? and what object does it finally serve?

I explained the situation briefly and the patrolman recognized I was the object of the call he'd just received from Jackson.

She didn't object when his fangs bit into her, instead sighing as the comforting warmth consumed her.

Especially among the lower races the dead are regarded as hostile; the Australian avoids the grave even of a kinsman and elaborate ceremonies of mourning are found amongst most primitive peoples, whose object seems to be to rid the living of the danger they run by association with the ghost of the dead.

Attention has been paid in the West Indies to seed selection, by the officers of the imperial Department of Agriculture, with the object of retaining for West Indian Sea Island cotton its place as the most valuable cotton on the British market.

In 1900 the Imperial Department of Agriculture and private planters began experiments with the object of reintroducing the cultivation, owing to the decline in value of sugar.

The principal object of this more recent research has been the determination of the quantitative amount of chemical change associated with the passage for a given time of a current of strength known in electromagnetic units.

On the 27th of March 1882 the dignity of cardinal was conferred upon Lavigerie, but the great object of his ambition was to restore the see of St Cyprian; and in that also he was successful, for by a bull of 10th November 1884 the metropolitan see of Carthage was re-erected, and Lavigerie received the pallium on the 25th of January 1885.

But neither temperament nor training allowed her to make her pupil the object of any experiment or observation which did not help in the child's development.

Her little hands felt every object and observed every movement of the persons about her, and she was quick to imitate these movements.

I would cling to my mother's dress as she went about her household duties, and my little hands felt every object and observed every motion, and in this way I learned a great many things.

The condition of the operatives is becoming every day more like that of the English; and it cannot be wondered at, since, as far as I have heard or observed, the principal object is, not that mankind may be well and honestly clad, but, unquestionably, that corporations may be enriched.

As if the main object were to talk fast and not to talk sensibly.

Trying to convict her, he told her she had worn him out, had caused his quarrel with his son, had harbored nasty suspicions of him, making it the object of her life to poison his existence, and he drove her from his study telling her that if she did not go away it was all the same to him.