object

Engleski

Etymology

From Old French object, from Medieval Latin obiectum (“object”, literally “thrown against”), from obiectus, perfect passive participle of obiciō (“I throw against”), from iaciō (“I throw”), as a calque of Antički Grčki ἀντικείμενον (antikeímenon). Dubleti of objet.

Pronunciation

• (noun)
  • (UK) enPR: ŏb'jĕkt, MFA^(ključ): /ˈɒb.d͡ʒɛkt/
  • (US) enPR: ŏb'jĕkt, MFA^(ključ): /ˈɑb.d͡ʒɛkt/

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• (verb)
  • (UK, US) enPR: əb-jĕkt', MFA^(ključ): /əbˈd͡ʒɛkt/

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  • Rime: -ɛkt

Noun

object (plural objects)

1. A thing that has physical existence but is not alive.
2. Objective; goal, end or purpose of something.
   • 1825, Accounts and Papers, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords, strana 91:

   • 1860, Thomas Fenner Curtis, The Progress of Baptist Principles in the Last Hundred Years, strana 161:

   • 1863, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, Reports from Committees, strana 240:

   • 1877, South Australia. Parliament, Proceedings of the Parliament of South Australia: With Copies of Documents Ordered to be Printed ..., strana 29:

   • 2000, Phyllis Barkas Goldman & John Grigni, Monkeyshines on Ancient Cultures

     The object of tlachtli was to keep the rubber ball from touching the ground while trying to push it to the opponent's endline.

4. (grammar) The noun phrase which is an internal complement of a verb phrase or a prepositional phrase. In a verb phrase with a transitive action verb, it is typically the receiver of the action.
5. A person or thing toward which an emotion is directed.

   Mary Jane had been the object of Peter's affection for years.

   The convertible, once the object of his desire, was now the object of his hatred.

   Where's your object of ridicule now?

7. (object-oriented programming) An instantiation of a class or structure.
8. (category theory) An instance of one of the two kinds of entities that form a category, the other kind being the arrows (also called morphisms).

   Similarly, there is a category whose objects are groups and whose arrows are the homomorphisms from one group to another.

9. (obsolete) Sight; show; appearance; aspect.
   • c. 1610s, George Chapman, Batrachomyomachia

     He, advancing close / Up to the lake, past all the rest, arose / In glorious object.

Synonyms

• (thing): article, item, thing
• (person or thing toward which an emotion is directed): target
• See also Thesaurus:goal

Hyponyms

• art object
• depicted object
• direct object
• exponential object
• foreign object
• found object
• indirect object
• initial object
• natural object
• physical object
• prepositional object
• retained object
• sex object
• unidentified flying object

 

Hyponyms of object (astronomy)

• celestial object
• deep-sky object
• Herbig-Haro object
• Kuiper belt object
• Messier object
• superluminal object

 

Hyponyms of object (object-oriented programming)

• first-class object
• function object
• God object
• immutable object
• mock object
• mutable object
• native object
• non-traversable object
• null object
• second-class object
• terminal object
• third-class object
• traversable object
• value object

 

Derived terms

• anti-object art
• BL Lac object
• bright shiny object
• cognate object
• data access object
• data transfer object
• Edgeworth-Kuiper object
• eternally collapsing object
• group object
• massive and compact halo object
• massive astronomical compact halo object
• massive astrophysical compact halo object
• massive compact halo object
• natural numbers object
• near-Earth object
• object adapter pattern
• object ball
• object-based
• object-based language
• object-based programming
• object blindness
• object code
• object complement
• object-control
• object finder
• object glass
• object graph
• objecthood
• objectify
• objectionable
• objective
• object language
• object lens
• object lesson
• object manipulation
• object orientation
• object-oriented
• object-oriented
• object-oriented language
• object oriented programming
• object permanence
• object pool pattern
• object pronoun
• object request broker
• object show
• object-soul
• object space
• object world
• objet d’art
• partial object
• planetary object
• post-object art
• potentially hazardous object
• quasi-stellar object
• scattered disc object
• Thorne-Zytkow object
• total object
• transitional object
• trans-Neptunian object
• unidentified submarine object
• unidentified submerged object
• verb-object
• versioned object base
• zero object

 

Translations

thing

• Afrikaans: objek
• Arabic: عُرْضَة‎ f (ʿurḍa)
• Armenian: օբյեկտ (hy) (ōbyekt), իր (hy) (ir), առարկա (hy) (aṙarka)
• Asturian: oxetu (ast) m
• Belarusian: pradmét (be) m (pradmjét), ab'ékt m (abʺjékt)
• Bulgarian: predmét (bg) m (predmét), veщ (bg) f (vešt)
• Catalan: objecte (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 物體／物体 (zh) (wùtǐ), 物件 (zh) (wùjiàn)

• Czech: předmět (cs) m, objekt (cs) m
• Danish: objekt (da), ting (da)
• Dutch: object (nl) n, voorwerp (nl) n
• Esperanto: objekto
• Estonian: ese (et)
• Finnish: esine (fi), objekti (fi), kappale (fi), olio (fi)
• French: objet (fr) m
• Galician: obxecto (gl) m
• Georgian: საგანი (sagani), ობიექტი (ka) (obiekṭi)
• German: Gegenstand (de) m, Objekt (de) n, Sache (de) f
• Gothic: 𐍅𐌰𐌹𐌷𐍄𐍃 f (waihts)
• Greek: αντικείμενο (el) n (antikeímeno)
• Haitian Creole: objè
• Hebrew: אוביקט‎ (he) m, חפץ‎ (he) m
• Hindi: चीज़ (hi) f (cīz), वस्तु (hi) f (vastu)
• Hungarian: tárgy (hu), dolog (hu), objektum (hu)
• Icelandic: hlutur (is) m
• Ido: objekto (io)
• Irish: rud m, réad m
• Italian: oggetto (it) m
• Japanese: 物体 (ja) (ぶったい, buttai), 物 (ja) (もの, mono), 物件 (ja) (ぶっけん, bukken)
• Khmer: វត្ថុ (km) (vŭətthoʾ)
• Korean: 물건(物件) (ko) (mulgeon)
• Lao: ອັນ (’an)
• Latin: rēs (la) f
• Macedonian: predmet m (predmet)
• Malagasy: zavatra (mg)
• Malayalam: വസ്തു (ml) (vastu)
• Maori: ahanoa, mea
• Marathi: वस्तु (vastu)
• Nanai: dяka
• Norman: objet m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: objekt (no) n, ting (no) m, gjenstand (no) m

• Occitan: objècte (oc) m
• Old English: þing n
• Persian: چیز‎ (fa) (čiz), شیء‎ (fa) (šey')
• Plautdietsch: Dinkj n
• Polish: przedmiot (pl) m inan, obiekt (pl) m inan
• Portuguese: objeto (pt) m
• Romanian: obiect (ro) n, lucru (ro) n
• Russian: obъékt (ru) m (obʺjékt), predmét (ru) m (predmét)
• Sanskrit: वस्तु (sa) (vastu)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: (Bosnian, Serbian) objekat m, (Croatian) objekt m, predmet m

  Roman: (Bosnian, Serbian) objekat m, (Croatian) objekt (sh) m, predmet (sh) m

• Sindhi: شَي‎ f, وَٿَ‎ (sd) f, وَکَرُ‎ m
• Slovak: predmet (sk) m, objekt m
• Slovene: predmet (sl) m, objekt m
• Spanish: objeto (es) m, objecto m
• Swedish: objekt (sv) n, föremål (sv) n
• Tajik: šaйъ (tg) (šayʾ)
• Telugu: వస్తువు (te) (vastuvu)
• Thai: วัตถุ (th)
• Tibetan: ཅ་ལག (ca lag)
• Tocharian B: wreme
• Turkish: cisim (tr), nesne (tr)
• Ukrainian: predmét (uk) m (predmét), ob'є́kt m (obʺjékt)
• Urdu: چیز‎ f (cīz)
• Vietnamese: đồ vật (vi) (塗物), vật thể (vi) (物體)
• Yiddish: אָביעקט‎ m (obyekt)

the goal, end or purpose of something

• Arabic: هَدَف‎ (ar) m (hadaf)
• Armenian: նպատակ (hy) (npatak)
• Belarusian: ab'ékt m (abʺjékt)
• Bengali: মকসদ (bn) (môkśôd)
• Bulgarian: cel (bg) f (cel), obékt (bg) m (obékt)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 目標／目标 (zh) (mùbiāo), 目的 (zh) (mùdì)

• Danish: genstand (da) c
• Finnish: tavoite (fi), päämäärä (fi)
• French: objet (fr) m
• German: Gegenstand (de) m, Ziel (de) n
• Greek: σκοπός (el) m (skopós)
• Hindi: हदफ (hi) m (hadaph), लक्ष्य (hi) m (lakṣya), निशाना (hi) m (niśānā)
• Hungarian: cél (hu), célkitűzés (hu), szándék (hu)
• Irish: cuspóir (ga) m, cuspa m, aidhm (ga) f
• Japanese: 目的 (ja) (もくてき, mokuteki)
• Korean: 목적(目的) (ko) (mokjeok)
• Maori: aronga, whāinga (mi)
• Russian: obъékt (ru) m (obʺjékt)
• Spanish: objeto (es) m
• Thai: วัตถุประสงค์ (th)
• Ukrainian: ob'є́kt m (obʺjékt)

in grammar

• Arabic: مَفْعُول بِهِ‎ m (mafʿūl bihi), مَفْعُول‎ m (mafʿūl) (short form)
• Armenian: խնդիր (hy) (xndir)
• Asturian: oxetu (ast) m
• Azerbaijani: tamamlıq
• Belarusian: dapaўnénne n (dapaŭnjénnje), ab'ékt m (abʺjékt)
• Bulgarian: dopъlnénie (bg) n (dopǎlnénie)
• Catalan: objecte (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 賓語／宾语 (zh) (bīnyǔ)

• Czech: předmět (cs) m
• Danish: objekt (da) n, genstandsled (da) n
• Dutch: lijdend voorwerp (nl) n, meewerkend voorwerp (nl) n
• Estonian: sihitis
• Faroese: ávirki n
• Finnish: objekti (fi), kohde (fi), tekemisen kohde
• French: objet (fr) m
• Galician: obxecto (gl) m
• Georgian: დამატება (damaṭeba)
• German: Ergänzung (de) f, Satzergänzung f, Objekt (de) n
• Greek: αντικείμενο (el) n (antikeímeno)
• Greenlandic: susaq
• Hebrew: מושא‎ (he) m
• Hindi: कर्म (hi) m (karma)
• Hungarian: tárgy (hu)
• Icelandic: andlag (is) n, andl. n
• Irish: cuspóir (ga) m
• Italian: oggetto (it) m
• Japanese: 目的語 (もくてきご, mokutekigo)
• Kalmyk: nemlt (nemlt)
• Kazakh: tolықtauыš (kk) (tolyqtauyş)
• Khmer: កម្មបទ (km) (kâmmôbât)
• Korean: 목적어(目的語) (ko) (mokjeogeo)
• Lao: ກຳ (lo) (kam)
• Latin: objectum
• Latvian: papildinātājs m
• Lithuanian: papildinys m
• Macedonian: predmet m (predmet), objékt m (objékt)
• Malayalam: കർമ്മം (ml) (karmmaṃ)
• Maori: aronga
• Marathi: कर्म (mr) (karma)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: tusagdahuun (mn) (tusagdahuun)

• Norman: objet m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: objekt (no) n

• Persian: مفعول‎ (fa) (maf'ul)
• Polish: dopełnienie (pl) n
• Portuguese: objeto (pt) m, complemento (pt)
• Romanian: complement (ro) n
• Russian: obъékt (ru) m (obʺjékt), dopolnénie (ru) n (dopolnénije)
• Sanskrit: कर्मन् (sa) n (karman)
• Scottish Gaelic: cuspair m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: (Bosnian, Serbian) objekat m, (Croatian) objekt m

  Roman: (Bosnian, Serbian) objekat m, (Croatian) objekt (sh) m

• Sindhi: مفعول‎ (sd) m
• Slovak: predmet (sk) m
• Slovene: predmet (sl) m
• Spanish: complemento (es) m, objeto (es) m
• Swedish: objekt (sv) n
• Telugu: కర్మ (te) (karma)
• Thai: กรรม (th) (gam)
• Turkish: nesne (tr)
• Ukrainian: dodátok m (dodátok), ob'є́kt m (obʺjékt)
• Vietnamese: tân ngữ (vi)

person or thing to which an emotion is directed

• Asturian: oxetu (ast) m
• Bulgarian: obékt (bg) m (obékt)
• Catalan: objecte (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 對象／对象 (zh) (duìxiàng)

• Danish: genstand (da) c
• Finnish: kohde (fi)
• French: objet (fr) m
• Galician: obxecto (gl) m
• German: Objekt (de) n
• Greek: αντικείμενο (el) n (antikeímeno)
• Hungarian: tárgy (hu), célpont (hu)
• Italian: oggetto (it) m
• Japanese: 対象 (ja) (たいしょう, taishō)
• Khmer: វត្ថុវិស័យ (vɔɔtthovisay)
• Korean: 대상(對象) (ko) (daesang)
• Maori: rauwene (of censure, criticism, blame)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: gjenstand (no) m

• Polish: przedmiot (pl) m, obiekt (pl) m
• Portuguese: objetivo (pt) m
• Romanian: obiect (ro) n
• Russian: obъékt (ru) m (obʺjékt)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: (Bosnian, Serbian) objekat m, (Croatian) objekt m

  Roman: (Bosnian, Serbian) objekat m, (Croatian) objekt (sh) m

• Sindhi: نشانو‎ m
• Swedish: föremål (sv) n
• Vietnamese: đối tượng (vi)

object-oriented programming: instantiation of a class or structure

• Arabic: كَائِن‎ (ar) m (kāʾin)
• Armenian: molim dodajte ovaj prevod ako možete
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 對象／对象 (zh) (duìxiàng), 物件 (zh) (wùjiàn) (Taiwan)

• Dutch: object (nl) n
• Esperanto: molim dodajte ovaj prevod ako možete
• Finnish: olio (fi)
• French: objet (fr) m
• Georgian: molim dodajte ovaj prevod ako možete
• German: Objekt (de) n
• Greek: αντικείμενο (el) n (antikeímeno)
• Hebrew: אוביקט‎ (he) m
• Hungarian: objektum (hu)
• Irish: oibiacht f
• Italian: oggetto (it) m
• Japanese: オブジェクト (ja) (obujekuto)
• Korean: molim dodajte ovaj prevod ako možete
• Latvian: molim dodajte ovaj prevod ako možete
• Macedonian: objékt m (objékt)
• Maori: ahanoa
• Norman: objet m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: objekt (no) n

• Persian: شیء‎ (fa) (šey')
• Polish: obiekt (pl) m
• Portuguese: objeto (pt) m
• Romanian: obiect (ro) n
• Russian: obъékt (ru) m (obʺjékt)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: (Bosnian, Serbian) objekat m, (Croatian) objekt m

  Roman: (Bosnian, Serbian) objekat m, (Croatian) objekt (sh) m

• Spanish: objeto (es) m
• Swedish: objekt (sv) n
• Thai: อ็อบเจกต์
• Turkish: nesne (tr), obje (tr)
• Vietnamese: molim dodajte ovaj prevod ako možete

category theory: instance of a kind of entities forming a category

• Hungarian: objektum (hu)
• Maori: mātāoroko

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Translations to be checked

• Ido: ^{(please verify)} objekto (io)
• Slovak: ^{(please verify)} predmet (sk) m

See also

• subject

Verb

object

2. (intransitive) To disagree with or oppose something or someone; (especially in a Court of Law) to raise an objection.

   I object to the proposal to build a new airport terminal.

   We strongly object to sending her to jail for ten years.

   • 1975, Yao (孟瑤) Meng, “Homeward Bound”, in An Anthology of Contemporary Chinese Literature: Taiwan, 1949-1974‎^[1], volume 2, Taipei: China Printing, Ltd., OCLC 2491439, strana 33:

3. (transitive, obsolete) To offer in opposition as a criminal charge or by way of accusation or reproach; to adduce as an objection or adverse reason.
   • Šablon:RQ:Shakespeare Richard 2
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: Printed [by John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, book VI, canto VII:

   • 1708, w:Joseph Addison, The Present State of the War, and the Necessity of an Augmentation:

   • 1571, John Whitgift, Admonition to the Parliament:

4. (transitive, obsolete) To set before or against; to bring into opposition; to oppose.
   • early 17th century, Edward Fairfax, Godfrey of Bulloigne: or The recovery of Jerusalem.

     Of less account some knight thereto object, / Whose loss so great and harmful can not prove.

   • c. 1678, Richard Hooker, a sermon

     some strong impediment or other objecting itself

   • Šablon:RQ:Homer Pope et al Odyssey

Derived terms

• objection

Translations

disagree with something or someone

• Armenian: առարկել (hy) (aṙarkel)
• Bulgarian: vъzrazяvam (bg) (vǎzrazjavam)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 反對／反对 (zh) (fǎnduì)

• Czech: namítnout (cs)
• Danish: indvende
• Dutch: protesteren (nl), ertegen zijn, bezwaar maken, tegenwerpen (nl)
• Esperanto: kontraŭparoli, obĵeti
• Faroese: mótmæla
• Finnish: vastustaa (fi), väittää vastaan
• French: s’opposer (fr), objecter (fr)
• Georgian: უარყოფა (uarq̇opa), შეპასუხება (šeṗasuxeba), შესიტყვება (šesiṭq̇veba), შეკამათება (šeḳamateba), შედავება (šedaveba)
• German: dagegen sein (de), Einwände haben, einwenden (de)
• Greek: διαφωνώ (el) (diafonó), αντιτίθεμαι (el) (antitíthemai), ενίσταμαι (el) (enístamai), αντιτείνω (el) (antiteíno)
• Hebrew: הִתְנַגֵּד‎ (he) (hitnagéd)
• Hungarian: ellenez (hu), kifogásol (hu), tiltakozik (hu)
• Icelandic: mótmæla (is), malda í mórinn, mæla á móti
• Ido: objecionar (io)
• Irish: agóid
• Italian: obiettare (it), eccepire (it), contestare (it)
• Japanese: 反対する (ja) (はんたいする, hantai-suru)
• Macedonian: prigovara (prigovara)
• Malagasy: mitohitra, tsy manaiky
• Maori: porotēhi
• Polish: sprzeciwiać się (pl)
• Portuguese: objetar (pt)
• Quechua: kutipakuy
• Romanian: obiecta (ro), opune (ro)
• Russian: vozražátь (ru) impf (vozražátʹ), vozrazítь (ru) pf (vozrazítʹ)
• Slovak: namietať
• Spanish: objetar (es)
• Swedish: invända (sv), motsätta sig, protestera (sv)
• Thai: คัดค้าน (th), ค้าน (th) (káan)
• Turkish: karşı çıkmak (tr), itirazı olmak
• Ukrainian: zaperéčuvati impf (zaperéčuvaty), zaperéčiti pf (zaperéčyty)
• Vietnamese: phản đối (vi)

(obsolete in English) to set before or against; to bring into opposition; to oppose

• Hungarian: (to oppose, raise an objection) ellenvet (hu)

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle French [Term?], from Old French object, from Latinski obiectum.

Pronunciation

• MFA^(ključ): /ɔpˈjɛkt/, /ɔˈbjɛkt/

• Audio

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• Hyphenation: ob‧ject

Noun

object n (plural objecten, diminutive objectje n)

1. object, item
2. (grammar) object

Related terms

• objectief
• objectiviteit
• subject

Descendants

• Afrikanski: objek
• → Indonesian: objek