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object

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.
  3. (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.
  4. A person or thing toward which an emotion is directed.
  5. (object-oriented programming) An instantiation of a class or structure.
  6. (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.
  7. (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

Derived terms

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

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classification

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French classification

Pronunciation

  • (US) IPA(key): /?klæs?f??ke???n/
  • Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

classification (countable and uncountable, plural classifications)

  1. The act of forming into a class or classes; a distribution into groups, as classes, orders, families, etc., according to some common relations or attributes.
    • 1997: Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault, page 69 (Totem Books, Icon Books; ?ISBN
      I’m using mathesis — a universal science of measurement and order
      And there is also taxinomia a principle of 'classification' and ordered tabulation.
      Knowledge replaced universal resemblance with finite differences. History was arrested and turned into tables …
      Western reason had entered the age of judgement.

Derived terms

  • classification scheme
  • classification yard

Related terms

  • class
  • classic
  • classify
  • category
  • categorize
  • segment

Translations

Further reading

  • classification in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
  • classification in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
  • classification at OneLook Dictionary Search

French

Etymology

classe +? -ification

Pronunciation

Noun

classification f (plural classifications)

  1. classification

Further reading

  • “classification” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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