different between object vs adjective

English

Etymology

From Old French object, from Medieval Latin obiectum (“object”, literally “thrown against”), from obiectus, perfect passive participle of obici? (“I throw against”), from ob- (“against”) +? iaci? (“I throw”), as a gloss of Ancient Greek ???????????? (antikeímenon).

Pronunciation

• (noun)
  • (UK) enPR: ?b'j?kt, IPA^(key): /??b.d???kt/
  • (US) enPR: ?b'j?kt, IPA^(key): /??b.d???kt/

• (verb)
  • (UK, US) enPR: ?b-j?kt', IPA^(key): /?b?d???kt/
  • Rhymes: -?kt

Noun

object (plural objects)

1. A thing that has physical existence.
2. Objective; the goal, end or purpose of something.
   • 2000, Phyllis Barkas Goldman & John Grigni, Monkeyshines on Ancient Cultures

     The object of tlachtli was to keep the rubber ball from touching the ground while trying to push it to the opponent's endline.

4. (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.
5. A person or thing toward which an emotion is directed.

6. (object-oriented programming) An instantiation of a class or structure.
7. (category theory) 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.
8. (obsolete) Sight; show; appearance; aspect.
   • c. 1610s, George Chapman, Batrachomyomachia

     He, advancing close / Up to the lake, past all the rest, arose / In glorious object.

Synonyms

• (thing): article, item, thing
• (person or thing toward which an emotion is directed): target
• See also Thesaurus:goal

Hyponyms

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Related terms

Translations

See also

• subject

References

• object on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Verb

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.

2. (transitive, obsolete) To offer in opposition as a criminal charge or by way of accusation or reproach; to adduce as an objection or adverse reason.
   • 1708, Joseph Addison, The Present State of the War, and the Necessity of an Augmentation

     There are others who will object the poverty of the nation.
3. (transitive, obsolete) 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.

   • c. 1678, Richard Hooker, a sermon

     some strong impediment or other objecting itself

Derived terms

• objection

Translations

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle French [Term?], from Old French object, from Latin obiectum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?j?kt/, /??bj?kt/
• Hyphenation: ob?ject

Noun

object n (plural objecten, diminutive objectje n)

1. object, item
2. (grammar) object

Related terms

• objectief
• objectiviteit
• subject

Descendants

• Afrikaans: objek
• ? Indonesian: objek

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French adjectif, from Latin adiectivus, from adici? + -?vus, from ad- (“to, towards, at”) + iaci? (“throw”). The Latin word adiectivus in turn was a calque of Ancient Greek ?????????? (epithetikón, “added”), a derivative of the compound verb ????????? (epitíth?mi), from which also comes epithet.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?æ.d???k.t?v/, /?æ.d???k.t?v/, /?æ.d???k.t?v/

Noun

adjective (plural adjectives)

1. (grammar) A word that modifies a noun or noun phrase or describes a noun’s referent.
2. (obsolete) A dependent; an accessory.
   • 1648, Thomas Fuller, The History of the University of Cambridge since the Conquest

     it must be an adjective of dain

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:adjective

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Translations

Adjective

adjective (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) Incapable of independent function.
   • 1899, John Jay Chapman, Emerson and Other Essays, AMS Press (1969) (as reproduced in Project Gutenberg)

     In fact, God is of not so much importance in Himself, but as the end towards which man tends. That irreverent person who said that Browning uses “God” as a pigment made an accurate criticism of his theology. In Browning, God is adjective to man.

   Synonyms: dependent, derivative

2. (grammar) Adjectival; pertaining to or functioning as an adjective.

   Synonym: adjectival

3. (law) Applying to methods of enforcement and rules of procedure.

   Synonym: procedural

   Antonym: substantive

4. (chemistry, of a dye) Needing the use of a mordant to be made fast to that which is being dyed.

   Antonym: substantive

Translations

Verb

adjective (third-person singular simple present adjectives, present participle adjectiving, simple past and past participle adjectived)

1. (transitive) To make an adjective of; to form or convert into an adjective.
   • 1805, John Horne Tooke, Epea Pteroenta: or The Diversions of Purley Part 2

     Language has as much occasion to adjective the distinct signification of the verb, and to adjective also the mood, as it has to adjective time. It has […] adjectived all three.
2. (transitive, chiefly as a participle) To characterize with an adjective; to describe by using an adjective.

Translations

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.d??k.tiv/

Adjective

adjective

1. feminine singular of adjectif

Latin

Adjective

adject?ve

1. vocative masculine singular of adject?vus

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ad.?ek?ti.ve]

Noun

adjective

1. plural of adjectiv

Scots

Etymology

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From Latin (nomen) adjectivum.

Noun

adjective (plural adjectives)

1. (grammar) adjective