object
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2.7
- noun
- /ˈɑbdʒɛkt/
- Specialized
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objeto directo
- The verb dangles without an object, and so its subject also becomes uncertain, at least to us.
- direct object
- object pronouns
- verb-object
Examples
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Most often, transformation is described at the individual level; less commonly, communities are the objects of transformation.
Academic text (2015) -
We use you and that can be the object or the subject.
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And in the process of doing so, he had to lose sight of the object for a moment.
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In such a system, any specific object will be an instance of a class of objects.
Academic text (1992) -
No object may be passed to the prisoner.
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Then in Hagas, the second stage is that subject and object are divided from each other.
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In some languages, direct object pronouns can be omitted under particular discourse conditions.
Academic text (2013) -
In the sentence 'She kicked the ball,' 'the ball' is the object receiving the action of the verb.
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In English, the object of a verb typically follows the verb in a sentence structure.
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The teacher explained that the object in a sentence answers the question 'what?' or 'whom?'.
Synonyms
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3.9
A word or group of words that names people and things and receives the action of a verb
A noun or pronoun that gets the action of a verb
Compounds
A flying object seen in the sky whose origin is not known and often thought to be from space
- Specialized
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4.9
A way to write programs that keeps data and the actions that use it together to organize and reuse code
- Informal
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7.4
A new, flashy thing that attracts attention but has little real use
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3.9
A word or group of words that names people and things and receives the action of a verb
- Specialized
1
4.4
The way the eyes and brain see and tell what objects are, like a cup or car
- Jargon
A habit of being easily distracted and leaving tasks for new ideas
A person or thing that gets the benefit of an action, often with a direct object
- Specialized
A language that a translator or program creates from another language
- Specialized
The curved piece of glass in a microscope or telescope nearest the object that makes the first image
- Specialized
A noun or pronoun that comes after a preposition to complete its meaning
- Specialized
A database that keeps data and the programs that use it together, good for storing images and videos
- Specialized
A database that stores data as items that behave like parts of a program
- Specialized
A computer language that uses objects and classes to organize code
- Specialized
A thing that stays in a passive sentence, usually the thing the action happens to
How Specific
Surface Forms
Etymology
Object comes from Latin parts ob- ('towards') and jacere ('to throw'), meaning a 'thing put before' an action. In grammar, the object is the 'thing' that receives the action of the verb, which matches this idea of something placed after or before the action.