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Definitions of object:

noun: a tangible and visible entity; an entity that can cast a shadow
Example: "It was full of rackets, balls and other objects"
noun: the focus of cognitions or feelings
Example: "Objects of thought"
noun: (grammar) a constituent that is acted upon
Example: "The object of the verb"
noun: the goal intended to be attained (and which is believed to be attainable)
Example: "The sole object of her trip was to see her children"
verb: be averse to or express disapproval of
Example: "My wife objects to modern furniture"
verb: express or raise an objection or protest or criticism or express dissent
Example: "She never objected to the amount of work her boss charged her with"

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Words and phrases that have a meaning related to object: (491 results)
Synonyms:
aim, objective, physical object, target

More general:
breathe, cognitive content, constituent, content, disapprove, end, entity, goal, grammatical constituent, mental object, respire, something, take a breath

More specific:
antipathy, artefact, artifact, body of water, business, carp, catch, cavil, center, center of attention, challenge, chicane, commodity, demur, direct object, draw, dry land, earth, enclosure, except, expanse, extent, film, finding, goods, ground, growth, head, ice, indirect object, infatuation, land, location, lot, love, matter, mind, moon, natural enclosure, natural object, neighbor, neighbour, object of a preopsition, object of the verb, paring, parings, part, passion, point, portion, pounder, prepositional object, raise hell, remains, remonstrate, retained object, ribbon, shiner, soil, solid ground, substance, take exception, terra firma, thing, thread, vagabond, wall, water, web

Often used in the same context:
item, objects

Appears in the definition of:
., abience, abrade, abstractness, accommodation reflex, accretion, accusative, accusative case, adience, alidad, alidade, alt, altitude, anagrams, antique, apparent motion, apparent movement, apperception, approach, approaching, attraction, attractive force, autoeroticism, autoerotism, axial motion, axial rotation, back end, backside, ball, ballistics, ballistic trajectory, ballottement, barrier, basket rummy, beggar-my-neighbor, beggar-my-neighbour, begin, belay, benchmark, bench mark, bend, blackbody, black body, blackjack, blunt trauma, body, body english, bogart, bowling, bowling pin, brightness constancy, bring in, broadside, bugbear, butt, canasta, cannon, capture, carom, case, cast, casting, cathexis, cat scanner, celestial latitude, center of buoyancy, center of flotation, center of immersion, centre of buoyancy, centre of flotation, centre of immersion, centroid, character, charge, checkers, chess, chess game, chock, chosen, clog, coefficient of friction, cold, collision, collision course, come in for, compound pendulum, computerized axial tomography scanner, condenser, construction, consubstantiate, container, contested, continuing trespass, core, corona, cover, covering, dative, dative case, daybook, dec, declination, deconsecrate, deform, deformation, denotatum, depersonalise, depersonalize, depicted object, depression, desecrate, detrition, diary, dip, diplopia, discus, displacement, double vision, doubly transitive verb, doubly transitive verb form, draughts, draw a line, draw the line, drogue, drogue chute, drogue parachute, edge, el, electron microscope, elevation, emblem, end-to-end, estraterrestrial body, exclusive, execration, exhibit, extraterrestrial object, face, facet plane, facial, fathometer, figure, filing, fixture, flange, flex, flight, floater, flying saucer, fomite, footprint, friction, full radiator, gimbals, globe, globosity, globularness, go, god, go game, golf, golf game, gore, grab, gravitational collapse, gravity gradient, grip, guinea pig, half hitch, hallucination, hand, handgrip, handle, heartthrob, hobgoblin, hold, horizontal section, hot, icon, ikon, image, intransitive, intransitively, intransitive verb, intransitive verb form, intransitivize, introduce, irradiation, java, jaw, jaws, job, journal, klondike, knot, know, label, landmark, ledger, left, life belt, light microscope, lineation, line of flight, lorentz force, lug wrench, magazine, magnification, man, margin, marker, masse, masse shot, mat, material, mechanism, meld, mental synthesis, meteorite, moderation, mooring, mooring line, motion, movement, naive realism, natural covering, newspaper, nim, nimby, noughts and crosses, noun, noun phrase, numen, object glass, objectify, objective case, object of a preposition, object-oriented database management system, object-oriented programming language, one-way light time, optical condenser, optical pyrometer, orb, orbital motion, orbital rotation, outline, overbid, ovoid, owlt, paper, parallax, particularised, particularized, passage, passing, pendulum, penetrating injury, penetrating trauma, percussion instrument, percussive instrument, petrifaction, physical pendulum, picture, piece, pin, pinball, pinball game, pin wrench, place, plastic explosive, plastique, plop, plot, plug, position, powderpuff, prehensile, profile, psychokinetic, puff, puncture, pyroscope, quadrate, quasar, quasi-stellar radio source, radar echo, radiator, radioactive dating, radio source, rangefinder, range finder, realism, rear, reference, referent, revenue stamp, ride, right, rim, rocker, roll, rotundity, rubbing, safety belt, safety harness, sample, scene, scrape, section, segment, sentimentalise, sentimentalize, sex object, shape constancy, shear, shell, side, silhouette, singlea, singleton, size constancy, skin, slap, sleeve, slenderness, slice, slice into, slice through, smack, snap, snatch, solid, sonic depth finder, source code, spheric, spherical, sphericalness, sphericity, spike, spin the plate, spin the platter, stand back, starlike, start, sterilisation, sterilization, stopper, stopple, strip-jack-naked, strobe, strobe light, stroboscope, stub, stuff, superposition, supreme being, surface, temper, tendril, tenuity, tetherball, thickness, thinness, third dimension, throw, thwack, ticktacktoe, tick-tack-toe, ticktacktoo, tic-tac-toe, tit-tat-toe, tomograph, toroid, totem, totemic, toughness, trajectory, transitive, transitive verb, transitive verb form, tube, tubing, turn, twenty-one, twinkler, twist, ufo, uncontested, undercut, underneath, undivided, unidentified flying object, vehicle, venus, vertical section, vessel, vingt-et-un, visible, visual range, volume, warm, wedge, windage

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