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| Shopping | The largest selection of OBJECT products: USA, UK, Canada, Deutschland, France. |
| TV Shop | As seen on TV: beauty, diets, exercise, household, kitchen, personal, vitamins, and other popular TV-products. |
| Sounds | aa'bjhehkt; ahbjheh'kt |
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| Rhymes | abject, affect, aftereffect, and 65 more rhymes in ehkt... |
| Meaning | A tangible and visible entity. An entity that can cast a shadow. |
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| Examples | "it was full of rackets, balls and other objects" |
| Synonyms | physical object |
| Broader | physical entity |
| Narrower | whole, unit; living thing, animate thing; location; charm, good luck charm; curio, curiosity, oddity, oddment, peculiarity, rarity; draw, lot; film; hoodoo; je ne sais quoi; keepsake, souvenir, token, relic; makeweight, filler; part, portion; property, prop; snake; stuff; triviality, trivia, trifle, small beer; paring; catch; commemorative; discard; finding; floater; fomite, vehicle; geological formation, formation; growth; head; ice; land, dry land, earth, ground, solid ground, terra firma; land, ground, soil; moon; neighbor, neighbour; remains; ribbon, thread; shiner; vagabond; wall; web |
| Verbs | objectify |
| Meaning | The goal intended to be attained (and which is believed to be attainable). |
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| Examples | "the sole object of her trip was to see her children" |
| Synonyms | aim, objective, target |
| Broader | goal, end |
| Narrower | grail; business; point; thing |
| Meaning | (grammar) a constituent that is acted upon. |
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| Examples | "the object of the verb" |
| Category | grammar |
| Broader | constituent, grammatical constituent |
| Narrower | prepositional object, object of a preposition; direct object, object of the verb; indirect object; retained object |
| Meaning | The focus of cognitions or feelings. |
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| Examples | "objects of thought"; "the object of my affection" |
| Broader | content, cognitive content, mental object |
| Narrower | antipathy; bugbear, hobgoblin; execration; center, center of attention; hallucination; infatuation; love, passion |
| Meaning | Express or raise an objection or protest or criticism or express dissent. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s; Something ----s to somebody; Somebody ----s PP; Somebody ----s that CLAUSE |
| Examples | "She never objected to the amount of work her boss charged her with"; "When asked to drive the truck, she objected that she did not have a driver's license" |
| Broader | disapprove, reject |
| Narrower | demur, except; challenge, take exception; cavil, carp, chicane; mind; remonstrate; raise hell, make a stink |
| Nouns | objection; objector; objection |
| Meaning | Be averse to or express disapproval of. |
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| Pattern | Something is ----ing PP; Somebody ----s PP |
| Examples | "My wife objects to modern furniture" |
| Broader | be |
| Nouns | objection |
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