object
/ˈɑb.d͡ʒɛkt/ nom B1En français : objet, chose
- A thing that has physical existence but is not alive.
- Objective; goal, end or purpose of something.
- 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.
- 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.
- A cause for attention or concern. · the object of a strongly worded censure· Money is no object to him.
- An instantiation of a class or structure.
- 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.
Pluriel objects
Dans la bibliothèque
What was the object of the murderer, since robbery had no part in it?
There still remained some lurking suspicion in my mind, however, that the whole thing was a pre-arranged episode, intended to dazzle me, though what earthly object he could have in taking me in was past my comprehension.
“We have it all here,” said Gregson, pointing to a litter of objects upon one of the bottom steps of the stairs.
A long series of sterile weeks lay behind us, and here at last there was a fitting object for those remarkable powers which, like all special gifts, become irksome to their owner when they are not in use.
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