Object Inanimate Thing Latin Noun ˈɒbdʒɪkt ˈɒbdʒekt Everyday

• everyday objects such as cups and saucers
• inanimate objects (= things that are not alive)
• a physical/material object (= that you can see and touch)
• the scanner detected a metal object.

object

1. a thing that can be seen and touched, but is not alive
• SEE ALSO UFO
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/ufo
• everyday objects such as cups and saucers
• inanimate objects (= things that are not alive)
• a physical/material object (= that you can see and touch)
• The scanner detected a metal object.
• We now know that solid objects are largely made up of empty space.
• art objects from the ancient world

Extra Examples

• Furniture and other household objects were piled up outside the house.
• This looks a very unusual object. What is it exactly?
• He looked down at the drumsticks as if turning to inanimate objects for emotional support.
• The internet cannot replace the thrill of holding the physical object of a book in your hands.
• Glass and plastic objects lined the shelves.
• books, paintings, sculpture and other precious objects
2. a person or thing that somebody desires, studies, pays attention to, etc.
• SEE ALSO sex object
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/sex-object
• He felt he was nothing more to her than an object of desire.
• Her objects of study are all paintings.
• an object of affection/ridicule/worship

Extra Examples

• The Rolls Royce was an object of desire, and I desired one.
• Such a product aims to become an object of desire.
• The strange creature became the object of much curiosity.
3. an aim or a purpose
• Her sole object in life is to become a travel writer.
• The object is to educate people about road safety.
• The object of the game is to score points by combining cards.
• If you're late, you'll defeat the whole object of the exercise.
• He put together an army with the object of taking back the lost territory.
4. a noun, noun phrase or pronoun that refers to a person or thing that is affected by the action of the verb (called the direct object), or that the action is done to or for (called the indirect object)
• COMPARE subject
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/subject_2
5. money is not something that needs to be considered, because there is plenty of it available
• She travels around the world as if money is no object.

Word 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.