Hold the simple picture first: an 'object' is a thing — something solid you can see, touch, or point at, but not alive. From 'the thing right in front of you' the word spreads two ways. It becomes the thing your eyes, your effort, or your feelings are aimed AT — your aim, your target, the person you love or pity. And as a verb it flips to the action of throwing something back AGAINST a plan — you 'object' when you put yourself in the way of it. Noun and verb share an old idea of something placed/thrown in front of you.
From the word’s history
Latin 'obicere / objectum', from 'ob-' (against, in front of) + 'iacere' (to throw): literally 'something thrown before / in the way'. That single root feeds both the noun (a thing set before you) and the verb (to throw an objection in the way).
源自拉丁文 obicere / objectum，由 ob-（在前、對著）加 iacere（丟、擲）組成，字面是「被擲在前面、擋在路上的東西」。同一個字根同時餵養了名詞（擺在你面前的東西）和動詞（把反對丟到路中間去擋）。
Etymonline, entry 'object (n.)' and 'object (v.)' (etymonline.com)
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原始詞典資料11 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
objectnoun/ˈɒb.d͡ʒɛkt/
- 1
A thing that has physical existence but is not alive.
- 2
Objective; goal, end or purpose of something.
- Money is an Object to you? Money is an Object to me.
- And yet it may be proper to show that if time were an object, little, if any thing, would necessarily be gained by sprinkling in place of immersion, where a large number had to be baptized.
- 3
grammarhuman-scienceslinguisticsThe 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.
- 4
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.
- 5
A person or thing toward which an emotion is directed.
- the object of a strongly worded censure
- Money is no object to him.
- 6
An instantiation of a class or structure.
- 7
category-theorycomputingengineeringAn 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.
- 8
obsoleteSight; show; appearance; aspect.
- c. 1610s, George Chapman, Batrachomyomachia He, advancing close / Up to the lake, past all the rest, arose / In glorious object.
objectverb/əbˈd͡ʒɛkt/
- 1
To disagree with or oppose something or someone; (especially in a Court of Law) to raise an objection.
- I object to the proposal to build a new airport terminal.
- We strongly object to sending her to jail for ten years.
- 2
obsoleteTo offer in opposition as a criminal charge or by way of accusation or reproach; to adduce as an objection or adverse reason.
- We thanke you both, yet one but flatters vs, As well appeareth by the cauſe you come, Namely, to appeale each other of high treaſon. Cooſin of Hereford, what doſt thou obiect Againſt the Duke of Norfolke, Thomas Mowbray?
- He 'gan to him object his heinous Crime,
- 3
obsoleteTo set before or against; to bring into opposition; to oppose.
- early 17th century, Edward Fairfax, Godfrey of Bulloigne: or The recovery of Jerusalem. Of less account some knight thereto object, / Whose loss so great and harmful can not prove.
- c. 1678, Richard Hooker, a sermon some strong impediment or other objecting itself
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