objects

Meaning of objects

plural noun
  1. a material thing that can be seen and touched.
    he was dragging a large object
    small objects such as shells
  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
  3. 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. 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, 3rd person present
  1. say something to express one's opposition to or disagreement with something.
    residents object to the volume of traffic
    the boy's father objected that the police had arrested him unlawfully
    ‘It doesn't seem natural,’ she objected

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 .

Information about objects

  • The singular form of objects is: object.
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Hyphenation of objects

ob-jects

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
  • objects is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

objects synonyms

Meaning an object that one need not, cannot, or does not wish to give a specific name to:

thing

Meaning a particular item or object:

article

Meaning an individual article or unit, especially one that is part of a list, collection, or set:

item

Meaning a portion of an object or of material, produced by cutting, tearing, or breaking the whole:

piece

Meaning a thing made or adapted for a particular purpose, especially a piece of mechanical or electronic equipment:

device

Meaning a small mechanical or electronic device or tool, especially an ingenious or novel one:

gadget

Meaning a thing with distinct and independent existence:

entity

Meaning a material object:

body

Meaning used to refer to or address a person or thing whose name one has forgotten, does not know, or does not wish to mention:

thingamajig, thingamabob

Meaning a person or thing whose name one has forgotten, does not know, or does not wish to mention:

thingummy, thingy

Meaning a person or thing whose name one cannot recall, does not know, or does not wish to specify:

whatsit

Meaning used to refer to a person or thing whose name one cannot recall, does not know, or does not wish to specify:

whatchamacallit

Meaning used to refer to something that the speaker cannot name precisely:

doodah

Meaning miscellaneous items; paraphernalia:

gubbins

Meaning a gadget or other object whose name the speaker does not know or cannot recall:

doodad

Meaning a small object or gadget, especially one whose precise name the speaker cannot recall:

doohickey

Meaning used to refer to something one cannot or does not wish to name specifically:

dingus

Meaning a person, object, or place selected as the aim of an attack:

target

Meaning a push or blow, especially one given with the head:

butt

Meaning the centre of interest or activity:

focus

Meaning a person or thing that receives or is awarded something:

recipient

Meaning a person who is tricked or duped:

victim

Meaning disagree with and attempt to prevent, especially by argument:

oppose

Meaning express complete disapproval of; censure:

condemn

Meaning raise objections or show reluctance:

demur

Meaning object to:

mind

objects antonyms

Meaning a conception of or belief about something:

notion

Meaning officially agree to or accept as satisfactory:

approve

Meaning consent to receive or undertake (something offered):

accept

Meaning accept something reluctantly but without protest:

acquiesce

Words that rhyme with objects

pandects, affects, aftereffects, coeffects, confects, countereffects, defects, disaffects, disinfects, effects, imperfects, infects, maleffects, perfects, pluperfects, praefects, prefects, preterperfects, redefects, refects, reinfects, subprefects, superinfects, transfects, cathects, abjects, conjects, counterprojects, countersubjects, dejects, disjects, ejects, injects, interjects, introjects, megaprojects, microinjects, nonsubjects, projects, reejects, reinjects, rejects, reobjects, retrojects, subjects, subprojects, trajects, Analects, Collects, acrolects

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