Englishobject
▸ noun /ˈɒbdʒɪkt 
, ˈɒbdʒɛkt /
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
he hated being the object of public attention.
▪ 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 anything known to a computer (such as a processor or a piece of code) and defines its method of operation:
the interface treats most items, including cells, graphs, and buttons, as objects.
▸ verb [reporting verb] /əbˈdʒɛkt / say something to express one's opposition to 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 direct speech] ‘It doesn't seem natural,’ she objected.
▪ [with object] archaic cite 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.