Englishobject
▸ noun /ˈäbjekt, ˈɑbdʒɛkt 
/
1 a material thing that can be seen and touched:
he was dragging a large object
small objects such as shells.
▪ Philosophy a thing external to the thinking mind or subject.
2 a person or thing to which a specified action or feeling is directed:
disease became the object of investigation.
▪ a goal or purpose:
the Institute was opened with the object of promoting scientific study.
3 Grammar a noun or noun phrase governed by an active transitive verb or by a preposition:
in Gaelic the word order is verb, subject, object.
4 Computing a data construct that provides a description of something that may be used by a computer (such as a processor, a peripheral, a document, or a data set) and defines its status, its method of operation, and how it interacts with other objects:
the interface treats most items, including cells, graphs, and buttons, as objects.
▸ verb /əbˈjekt, əbˈdʒɛkt / [reporting verb] say something to express one's disapproval of or disagreement with something:
[no object] residents object to the volume of traffic
[with clause] the boy's father objected that the police had arrested him unlawfully.
▪ [with object] archaic adduce as a reason against something:
Bryant objects this very circumstance to the authenticity of the Iliad.
– ORIGIN late Middle English : from medieval Latin objectum ‘thing presented to the mind’, neuter past participle (used as a noun) of Latin obicere, from ob- ‘in the way of’ + jacere ‘to throw’; the verb may also partly represent the Latin frequentative objectare.