different between object vs value

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

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

English

Alternative forms

• valew (in the sense of “valour”)

Etymology

From Middle English valew, value, from Old French value , feminine past participle of valoir, from Latin val?re (“be strong, be worth”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?welh?- (“to be strong”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: v?l'?, IPA^(key): /?vælju?/
• Hyphenation: val?ue
• Rhymes: -ælju?

Noun

value (countable and uncountable, plural values)

1. The quality (positive or negative) that renders something desirable or valuable.

   Synonym: worth
2. (uncountable) The degree of importance given to something.
3. That which is valued or highly esteemed, such as one's morals, morality, or belief system.

   He does not share his parents' values.

   family values
4. The amount (of money or goods or services) that is considered to be a fair equivalent for something else.
   • 1825, John Ramsay McCulloch, Principles of Political Economy

     An article may be possessed of the highest degree of utility, or power to minister to our wants and enjoyments, and may be universally made use of, without possessing exchangeable value.

   • 1695, John Dryden (translator), Observations on the Art of Painting by Charles Alphonse du Fresnoy

     His design was not to pay him the value of his pictures, because they were above any price.
5. (music) The relative duration of a musical note.

6. (art) The relative darkness or lightness of a color in (a specific area of) a painting etc.
   • 2006, Edith Anderson Feisner, Colour: How to Use Colour in Art and Design

     When pigments of equal value are mixed together, the resulting color will be a darker value. This is the result of subtraction.

   • 2010, Rose Edin and ?Dee Jepsen, Color Harmonies: Paint Watercolors Filled with Light

     Shadows and light move very quickly when you are painting on location. Use Cobalt Blue to quickly establish the painting's values.

7. (mathematics, physics) Any definite numerical quantity or other mathematical object, determined by being measured, computed, or otherwise defined.

8. Precise meaning; import.
   • 1784-1810, William Mitford, The History of Greece

     Yet that learned and diligent annotator has , in a following note , shown his sense of the value of a passage of Livy , marking , in a few words , most strongly the desolation of Italy under the Roman republic

9. (in the plural) The valuable ingredients to be obtained by treating a mass or compound; specifically, the precious metals contained in rock, gravel, etc.

10. (obsolete) Esteem; regard.

    (Can we find and add a quotation of Dryden to this entry?)

    • My relation to the person was so near, and my value for him so great.

11. (obsolete) Valour; also spelled valew.

    • And him with equall valew countervayld

Synonyms

• valence

Hyponyms

• added value
• economic value
• face value
• intrinsic value
• lvalue
• market value
• note value
• par value
• rvalue
• time value

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

value (third-person singular simple present values, present participle valuing, simple past and past participle valued)

1. To estimate the value of; judge the worth of something.

2. To fix or determine the value of; assign a value to, as of jewelry or art work.
3. To regard highly; think much of; place importance upon.

4. To hold dear.

Synonyms

• appreciate
• assess
• esteem
• prize
• rate
• respect
• treasure
• valuate
• worthen

Antonyms

• belittle
• derogate
• despise
• disesteem
• disrespect

Translations

See also

• value system

References

• value at OneLook Dictionary Search
• value in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
• value in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• value in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• uveal

French

Verb

value

1. feminine singular of the past participle of valoir