Object
noun
A thing that you can see or touch, but that isn't alive.
She picked up a sharp object off the floor.
Often appears as...
- sharp object
- foreign object
noun
The reason for a person's efforts or actions.
Her main object in life is to be happy.
Often appears as...
- object of desire
- object of interest
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Approving
verb
To disagree with something or someone.
He objects to the way I run the meetings.
Often appears as...
- object to criticism
- object to decision
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Disapproving
noun
In grammar, a noun or noun phrase that is having something done to it.
In the sentence 'Tom loves pizza', 'pizza' is the object.
Often appears as...
- direct object
- indirect object
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Academic
noun
In computing, an item of data or a functional unit.
In JavaScript, an array is an object.
Often appears as...
- object-oriented programming
- object class
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Technical
noun
A thing that you can see or touch, but that isn't alive.
She picked up a sharp object off the floor.
Often appears as...
- sharp object
- foreign object
noun
The reason for a person's efforts or actions.
Her main object in life is to be happy.
Often appears as...
- object of desire
- object of interest
Usage tips
Approving
verb
To disagree with something or someone.
He objects to the way I run the meetings.
Often appears as...
- object to criticism
- object to decision
Usage tips
Disapproving
noun
In grammar, a noun or noun phrase that is having something done to it.
In the sentence 'Tom loves pizza', 'pizza' is the object.
Often appears as...
- direct object
- indirect object
Usage tips
Academic
noun
In computing, an item of data or a functional unit.
In JavaScript, an array is an object.
Often appears as...
- object-oriented programming
- object class
Usage tips
Technical
Definition 1 of 5
Pro Tip 1/2Physical Presence
Stresses the tangible aspect; not used for abstract concepts.
The room was cluttered with objects from the attic.
Pro Tip 2/2Visual Identification
Often used when the specific nature of the thing is unknown or irrelevant.
An unidentified object was found in the area.
Pro Tip 1/2Physical Presence
Stresses the tangible aspect; not used for abstract concepts.
The room was cluttered with objects from the attic.
Pro Tip 2/2Visual Identification
Often used when the specific nature of the thing is unknown or irrelevant.
An unidentified object was found in the area.
Pro Tip 1/2Physical Presence
Stresses the tangible aspect; not used for abstract concepts.
The room was cluttered with objects from the attic.
Pro Tip 2/2Visual Identification
Often used when the specific nature of the thing is unknown or irrelevant.
An unidentified object was found in the area.
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Why is Vermeer's "Girl...
Wishing to be represented in the paintings they financed, these merchants preferred middle class subjects depicted in spaces that looked like their own homes surrounded by familiar objects. The maps that appear in Vermeer's paintings, for example, were considered fashionable and worldly
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The genius of Marie...
This led her to conclude that radiation was coming from something fundamental within the atoms of each element. The idea was radical and helped to disprove the long-standing model of atoms as indivisible objects. Next, by focusing on a super radioactive ore called pitchblende,
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What can Schrödinger's...
is much different than the physics of the macroscopic objects you see around you all the time. The everyday world you know and love behaves according to the laws of classical mechanics. But systems on the scale of atoms behave according to the laws of quantum mechanics.
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Plato’s Allegory of the...
with no knowledge of the outside world. They are chained, facing a wall, unable to turn their heads, while a fire behind them gives off a faint light. Occasionally, people pass by the fire, carrying figures of animals and other objects that cast shadows on the wall.
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How To Levitate PIPE The...
So this is an acoustic vortex. So we fire these loudspeakers in a sequence, so we create a spiral of sound. And then the object gets caught like in the eye of a storm? Yeah, in the eye of the storm. Exactly. So this is pretty much on the world record.
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Pluto 101 PIPE National...
of the universe. Nestled within the far flung Kuiper belt the dwarf planet is believed to be one of the countless celestial objects left over from the formation of the solar system. While it is one of the Kuiper belts largest bodies,
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What is entropy? - Jeff...
Familiar, everyday objects have many, many times more particles than this. The chance of a hot object in the real world getting hotter is so absurdly small, it just never happens. Ice melts, cream mixes in, and tires deflate
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Is telekinesis real? -...
because they're neither strong nor far-reaching enough to influence anything outside of our skulls. Physics also tells us that the only forces that can influence objects from afar are magnetic and gravitational.
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My life as an outsider PIPE...
my fashion is very important to empower women and the kind of woman that I project is is a woman that self-confident and who is not an object and who doesn't have to hide behind her clothes
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Jedidah Isler: How I...
These two characteristics, with a few others, make them quasars. At the same time, the objects I study are producing some of the most powerful particle streams ever observed.
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Why is Vermeer's "Girl...
Wishing to be represented in the paintings they financed, these merchants preferred middle class subjects depicted in spaces that looked like their own homes surrounded by familiar objects. The maps that appear in Vermeer's paintings, for example, were considered fashionable and worldly
Video examples
The genius of Marie...
This led her to conclude that radiation was coming from something fundamental within the atoms of each element. The idea was radical and helped to disprove the long-standing model of atoms as indivisible objects. Next, by focusing on a super radioactive ore called pitchblende,
Video examples
What can Schrödinger's...
is much different than the physics of the macroscopic objects you see around you all the time. The everyday world you know and love behaves according to the laws of classical mechanics. But systems on the scale of atoms behave according to the laws of quantum mechanics.
Video examples
Plato’s Allegory of the...
with no knowledge of the outside world. They are chained, facing a wall, unable to turn their heads, while a fire behind them gives off a faint light. Occasionally, people pass by the fire, carrying figures of animals and other objects that cast shadows on the wall.
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How To Levitate PIPE The...
So this is an acoustic vortex. So we fire these loudspeakers in a sequence, so we create a spiral of sound. And then the object gets caught like in the eye of a storm? Yeah, in the eye of the storm. Exactly. So this is pretty much on the world record.
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Pluto 101 PIPE National...
of the universe. Nestled within the far flung Kuiper belt the dwarf planet is believed to be one of the countless celestial objects left over from the formation of the solar system. While it is one of the Kuiper belts largest bodies,
Video examples
What is entropy? - Jeff...
Familiar, everyday objects have many, many times more particles than this. The chance of a hot object in the real world getting hotter is so absurdly small, it just never happens. Ice melts, cream mixes in, and tires deflate
Video examples
Is telekinesis real? -...
because they're neither strong nor far-reaching enough to influence anything outside of our skulls. Physics also tells us that the only forces that can influence objects from afar are magnetic and gravitational.
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My life as an outsider PIPE...
my fashion is very important to empower women and the kind of woman that I project is is a woman that self-confident and who is not an object and who doesn't have to hide behind her clothes
Video examples
Jedidah Isler: How I...
These two characteristics, with a few others, make them quasars. At the same time, the objects I study are producing some of the most powerful particle streams ever observed.
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Neil deGrasse Tyson
American Scientist
We account for one-sixth of the forces of gravity we see in the universe. There is no known objects accounting for most of the effective gravity in the universe. Something is making stuff move that is not anything we have ever touched.
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Leo Tolstoy
Russian Novelist
Joy can only be real if people look upon their life as a service and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.
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Napoleon Hill
American Author
Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price.
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Thomas Jefferson
American President
The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.
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George Santayana
Spanish Philosopher
Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world.
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Florence Nightingale
English Activist
She said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel.
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George Orwell
British Author
Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
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T. S. Eliot
American Poet
It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves.
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Tryon Edwards
American Theologian
High aims form high characters, and great objects bring out great minds.
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Rudolf Arnheim
German Artist
The least touchable object in the world is the eye.
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Neil deGrasse Tyson
American Scientist
We account for one-sixth of the forces of gravity we see in the universe. There is no known objects accounting for most of the effective gravity in the universe. Something is making stuff move that is not anything we have ever touched.
Quote examples
Leo Tolstoy
Russian Novelist
Joy can only be real if people look upon their life as a service and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.
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Napoleon Hill
American Author
Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price.
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Thomas Jefferson
American President
The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.
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George Santayana
Spanish Philosopher
Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world.
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Florence Nightingale
English Activist
She said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel.
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George Orwell
British Author
Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
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T. S. Eliot
American Poet
It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves.
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Tryon Edwards
American Theologian
High aims form high characters, and great objects bring out great minds.
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Rudolf Arnheim
German Artist
The least touchable object in the world is the eye.
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