/ˈɒb.dʒɪkt/
Translation
A thing that you can see or touch, especially one that is not alive.
Word origin
From Latin objectum, meaning a thing put or thrown before the mind.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- objectum
Grammar
Examples
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"Object" is a thing you can see or touch.
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"Objects" is the plural, meaning more than one object.
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Here "object" means a thing whose name we do not know.
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Adverb position in English: before the verb, after be, and the just, still and already traps
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Inversion and word order in English: the subject-verb-object spine and when it flips
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Advanced passive structures in English: the get-passive, it is said that, and passives with two objects
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Relative clauses in English: defining, non-defining and when to drop the pronoun
Reported speech in English: backshift, questions and commands
Reporting verbs in English: admit, deny, suggest, promise, and the pattern welded to each one
Separable and inseparable phrasal verbs: the rules that matter
The subjunctive and the unreal past in English: I suggest he go, if I were you, and it's time we left
Verb patterns with objects in English: want somebody to do, make somebody do, and see somebody doing
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