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Definition of object in English: objectnoun ˈɒbdʒɪktˈɒbdʒɛktˈɑbdʒɛkt 1A material thing that can be seen and touched. he was dragging a large object small objects such as shells Example sentencesExamples - Don't touch metallic objects like ice axes, crampons, tent poles, or jewelry.
- And while Bob might not be able to touch objects, he can touch people, and soon becomes a part of the family.
- Is it the result of the consumerist culture that has gripped us, or the need to possess material objects in order to reassure ourselves of our own worth?
- The works I've described thus far had one thing in common - they were discreet objects made with durable materials.
- Found objects and pre-existing printed material are the inspirations for the Glasgow-trained painter.
- Do you think we get too attached to material objects?
- In the language center, for instance, toddlers learn vocabulary by touching and feeling available objects as they practice the names of the items and the sound of the letter.
- The photogram technique uses only light, an object and light-sensitive materials, such as ice, water and glass.
- The community traded with the world, and designed and manufactured to sell into that market, including very ornate objects and fancy materials.
- The group's knowledge of everyday objects and materials will then be tested through a quiz and the children will discover how fragments of history can help us build up a picture of the past.
- Just as in art everything depends on a limited but skillful use of color and sounds, so too the art of living demands a limited but skillful use of material objects.
- Visitors to museums disregard cautionary boards and touch objects.
- My scooter is still very much a material object: it eats petrol, needs its tires filled and refuses to start on cold mornings.
- In several others, Qi Gong masters engage in feats such as moving objects and people without touching them.
- Regardless of religion and ethnic background the majority of us in the Western world have been permanently imprinted with a lust for purchasing material objects.
- If I was touching objects in the airport, I was very careful to wash my hands with alcohol.
- It is all a bit sci-fi and cosmic, but somehow the surface never stops reminding you that this is a material object, something made with the hand and the eye and the body's own chemistry.
- The youngsters had to follow clues to find objects made from natural materials around the museum.
- Women's status in the law was reduced to that of material objects and possessions.
- Scarcity seems equally intractable at first - the Internet is certainly not going to eliminate shortages of material objects or time or ability.
Synonyms thing, article, item, piece, device, gadget, entity, body informal thingamajig, thingamabob, thingummy, whatsit, whatchamacallit, what-d'you-call-it, thingy British informal doodah, doobry, gubbins North American informal doodad, doohickey, doojigger North American & South African informal dingus Australian/New Zealand informal thingo - 1.1Philosophy A thing external to the thinking mind or subject.
Example sentencesExamples - We do not perceive the external object but only its effects in consciousness.
- It is neither an external object nor an inner experience.
- Where Fichte in particular was happy to absorb the object into the subject, Kant preferred inconsistency to such a move.
- This was unsatisfactory because the external object is something foreign or hostile to self-consciousness.
- Schopenhauer's second class of objects for the mind is made up of concepts.
2A person or thing to which a specified action or feeling is directed. disease became the object of investigation he hated being the object of public attention Example sentencesExamples - If you do not declare yourself immediately, you arouse expectation, especially when the importance of your position makes you the object of general attention.
- When I was much younger, I was the object of attention for one thing - my derrière.
- But the object of all this attention could not be more unassuming.
- The object of their attention is not a group of beautiful Bollywood starlets or the latest icon of Hindi pop.
- They are the object of public pity for their heroic battles against addiction.
- Haunted by accusations made against his father and searching for a buried fortune, he becomes the object of a manhunt organised by a posse of bandits.
- While the object of his investigation is novel, his conclusions will be familiar to students of nineteenth-century America.
- My dislike increases to hate when the object of my desire is a pair of work shoes in summer.
- Despite being the object of much attention right now, the struggle for control over content probably isn't very meaningful to mass audiences.
- The women screamed in unison all eager to be the object of Joe's attention if only for a second, but all too timid to volunteer.
- If the object of a public consultation is to find out what the market thinks, Black's Consulting is on the right track.
- But he has links to men who are the object of a federal investigation into a West Coast laboratory.
- For the object of their attention at Beningbrough Hall is described as one of the finest Baroque state beds to survive in England.
- The romance became public when the object of her affection, a Swiss named Franco, announced plans to divorce his wife.
- The greater the part played in our lives by the object of our attention the greater the loss.
- It turned out that she'd been the object of so much attention that she had to hide in the girls' room to get a breather.
- The issues are the object of ongoing investigations.
- The relationship between environment and organisms became the object of his attention.
- She noted that she was the object of attention of a tall, dark-haired figure whose face remained hidden by the flurry of the crowd.
- Talk about star-crossed lovers, each invisible to the object of their attention.
Synonyms target, butt, focus, recipient, victim - 2.1 A goal or purpose.
the Institute was opened with the object of promoting scientific study Example sentencesExamples - In other words, it must be shown that the object or purpose of the defendant is to inflict harm on the claimant, either as an end in itself, or as a means to another end.
- In 1899 he founded the magazine World of Art, with the object of interchanging artistic ideas with Western Europe.
- The board is adopting devices and methods to defeat the very purpose and object of the Bank.
- The question is the extent to which the object in nature as goal remains the same.
- A latitude extending thus far might lead to results incompatible with the object and purpose of the Convention.
- To reap the benefits of exercise on your sex life, plan more active dates with the object of your affection.
- If one of the parties does so and the other is unaware of the illegal purpose the party whose object is illegal cannot enforce the obligation of the other.
- The genesis, the objective aim, object and commercial purpose of the transaction and its factual matrix are important as older authorities show.
- This decision does illustrate how closely the express and implied powers of specialized agencies must be related to their specific objects and purposes.
- That preliminary record is then published with the object of inviting comments and objections from persons interested either in the subsistence of the right of way or to deny its subsistence.
- The result would hardly prove consistent with the object and purpose of the Statute and its intent to put an end to impunity for the perpetrators of the most serious crimes.
- It is contrary to the spirit, purpose and objects of the Act to protect a defaulting owner from having to pay his share by a narrow reading of the language relating to a tool for the collection of what is owing.
- And, what is the value, the object, the purpose of having those words in the Constitution?
- I do not accept that they, or the Lee / Eadie conversation, are admissible as showing the object and purpose of the saving provision.
- That qualification is a test for determining whether there is a legitimate object or purpose of the legislature.
- The object and purpose of the Foreshore and Seabed Bill were set out clearly in clause 2A and clause 3.
- A new military expedition was launched with the object of proceeding to the second stage of the original plan, now that the first had failed: the Grand Canal was to be cut at Nanjing.
- A goal is an object that the eye is focused on for the purpose of attaining it through constant attention and effort.
- The text of the Preamble to the Convention is an important source for determining its object and purpose.
- It is an object, a goal, a future state of being to be passively wished for and waited upon.
Synonyms purpose, objective, aim, goal, target, end, end in view, plan, object of the exercise ambition, design, intent, intention, idea, point
3Grammar
A noun or noun phrase governed by an active transitive verb or by a preposition. in Gaelic the word order is verb, subject, object Example sentencesExamples - Mohawk is a polysynthetic language, in which noun objects can easily be incorporated into the verb.
- Verbs can be either transitive or intransitive a transitive verb governs an object, whereas an intransitive verb does not.
- Earlier forerunners rely entirely on intransitive or quasi-transitive verbs, with the object preceded by a preposition.
- Using a straight news story, circle all the direct objects in blue, the indirect objects in red, and the objects of prepositions in green.
- All languages have something like nouns and verbs, isolating objects, entities, events, and abstractions.
4Computing
A data construct that provides a description of anything known to a computer (such as a processor or a piece of code) and defines its method of operation. the interface treats most items, including cells, graphs, and buttons, as objects Example sentencesExamples - In order to put the Mason components and Perl objects on separate computers, we somehow need the ability to call an object method across a network.
- This method provides the ServletConfig object for initializing the servlet's parameters.
- What is new is the scope and scale of the application of rich metadata to a much wider variety of content objects - intranets, extranets and even the Web.
- System and method for distributed conflict resolution between data objects replicated across a computer network
- That data is then lost on shutdown, but this is not acceptable a way must be provided for storing objects in secondary storage.
verb əbˈdʒɛktəbˈdʒɛkt 1reporting verb Say something to express one's opposition to or disagreement with something. no object residents object to the volume of traffic with clause the boy's father objected that the police had arrested him unlawfully with direct speech ‘It doesn't seem natural,’ she objected Example sentencesExamples - Still, he chose not to object to his father, opting for silence instead.
- Those who object to it argue that it misrepresents half the human race and reinforces male bias and social dominance.
- Only the police may object to conversion, and then only on crime prevention grounds.
- He said he would object to being relocated, arguing that he had lived in the area for more than 30 years.
- No child custody issues were implicated whatsoever under the Ninth Circuit ruling, only the father's rights to object to unconstitutional conduct.
- In this particular case the major reason for opposing an increase of a handful of dwellings was to object to a precedent being set.
- With that in mind, I must heartily object to Jane's hypothetical above.
- The council will then become the licensing authority, but the police will have the same power to object to unsuitable applications.
- Are you talking of the whole article or is the matter complained of simply the paragraph that you object to?
- In the end, Zahra was quite jealous, but only because she had gotten dressed while there was still time for their father to object to some of the outfits she wanted to wear.
- I wouldn't object to the cameras so much if there was a police presence to crack down on other motoring offences.
- ‘If the parents are unhappy about the mast then we will object to it in the strongest possible way and we will help parents with their campaign,’ he said.
- Trouble is, like many concerned carnivores, I object to the way most U.S. beef is raised.
- Five people were arrested today after staging an illegal demonstration outside parliament to object to new laws restricting protests in the area.
- However, the project has already prompted a barrage of protest from people who object to unsightly turbines on the land.
- However, in this legislation there is no opportunity for the police to object to the concealment occurring if a person meets the criteria of the Act.
- I object to seeing policemen in uniform holding hands in public - it's not a family way of life and we should support the family more.
- What we object to are the attitudes that lurk beneath the surface his writing such as the persistent and recurring notion that contemporary art is guilty until proven innocent.
- Those who disagree with the practice may object to this definition but I think it is quite accurate.
- I was hoping we might have got a bit more support from local police, but they didn't object to it.
Synonyms protest (against), lodge a protest (against), raise/express objections (to), express disapproval (of), express disagreement (with), oppose, be in opposition (to), take exception (to), take issue (with), take a stand against, argue (against), remonstrate (against), make a fuss (about), quarrel with, disapprove (of), condemn, draw the line (at), demur, mind, complain (about), moan (about), grumble (about), grouse (about), cavil (at), quibble (about) beg to differ informal kick up a fuss/stink (about), beef (about), gripe (about) North American informal kvetch (about) - 1.1archaic with object Cite as a reason against something.
Bryant objects this very circumstance to the authenticity of the Iliad
Phrases Not influencing or restricting choices or decisions. a tycoon for whom money is no object Example sentencesExamples - Granite World cover the entire region with distance no object.
- I have to say that if money was no object and I had my choice of notebook computers, the T41p would be at the very top of my list.
- A number of councillors have staked their reputations on getting this project done, and in that respect, the cost to the ratepayer is no object.
- Distance is no object to Magic Maintenance who offer reasonable and competitive rates for the services provided.
- With money no object, the 600-acre grounds were no less spectacular, with soil specially imported from the mainland to create a wooded landscape on a virtually treeless island.
- Price is no object; if it's wonderful, we'll pay whatever you ask.
- It has to have at least six bedrooms and it's fair to say that money is no object.
- But the accounts refer to before the English Civil War when he organised journeys for Buckingham and his Royal friends - with expense no object.
- I don't know if he was in a different town at the time, but even if he was, this is a man to whom the money or means to get to her bedside would have been no object!
the object of the exercise The main purpose of an activity. the object of the exercise was to recover stolen property Example sentencesExamples - As much as anything, the object of the exercise is to display unity and a sense of collective purpose.
- We have to make it difficult to change otherwise it defeats the object of the exercise.
- This is another case in which the profit motive had conflicted with, and indeed blotted out, the object of the exercise, which was to obtain a supply of jurymen.
- We could wait a few decades to see how real temperatures pan out, but that rather defeats the object of the exercise, especially if you believe we'll all be parched or drowned in a century's time.
- Freudian free association, in Jung's view, carried the dreamer away from the dream and served only to lead him back, time and again, to his childhood complexes, and this defeated the object of the exercise.
- If plumping the turkey up for a Christmas sale was indeed the object of the exercise, the market appears to have reacted in the manner intended.
- I just don't know what the object of the exercise is here.
- We'd tell you what he said but that would kind of defeat the object of the exercise.
- Unfortunately for those who would really rather not have the plot given away, the review section tends to assume knowledge of the plot summary, rather defeating the object of the exercise.
- This privatisation conflicted with the object of the exercise, which was to raise money by selling the lands.
Synonyms aim, intention, purpose, target, goal, intent, object, end, end in view, grail, holy grail
Derivatives adjective ˈɒbdʒək(t)ləs Mystical illumination, then, unlike objectless contemplation, is inherently of the nature of a gift. Example sentencesExamples - The cliff was not in the way of anything, but this objectless blasting was all the work going on.
- The more general theoretical response to these problems has been to see artworks such as ‘Fountain’ and its mid-century heirs as essentially objectless gestures.
- Baudrillard insists that consumption is objectless, the ceaseless acquisition of artefacts that in fact have no end in themselves, and in doing so repeats a theme from Schopenhauer.
- How question Shakespeare's sympathy for such a youthful, noble victim who would, I think, find any one of the situations awaiting him far in excess of any objectless feeling?
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. Object as a noun meaning ‘a thing you can see and touch’ and as a verb meaning ‘to say that you disagree with something’ are related, both going back to the same Latin word, obicere. This meant ‘to throw at something else’. The earliest meaning in English was ‘put something in the way of something else’, and from this we get the idea of ‘oppose’. An obstacle placed in the path is something that can be seen, and this gives us the noun sense.
Rhymes affect, bisect, bull-necked, collect, confect, connect, correct, defect, deflect, deject, detect, direct, effect, eject, elect, erect, expect, infect, inflect, inject, inspect, interconnect, interject, intersect, misdirect, neglect, perfect, project, prospect, protect, reflect, reject, respect, resurrect, sect, select, subject, suspect, transect, unchecked, Utrecht Definition of object in US English: objectnounˈäbjektˈɑbdʒɛkt 1A material thing that can be seen and touched. he was dragging a large object small objects such as shells Example sentencesExamples - Found objects and pre-existing printed material are the inspirations for the Glasgow-trained painter.
- In the language center, for instance, toddlers learn vocabulary by touching and feeling available objects as they practice the names of the items and the sound of the letter.
- Do you think we get too attached to material objects?
- Regardless of religion and ethnic background the majority of us in the Western world have been permanently imprinted with a lust for purchasing material objects.
- Don't touch metallic objects like ice axes, crampons, tent poles, or jewelry.
- Visitors to museums disregard cautionary boards and touch objects.
- Women's status in the law was reduced to that of material objects and possessions.
- The youngsters had to follow clues to find objects made from natural materials around the museum.
- In several others, Qi Gong masters engage in feats such as moving objects and people without touching them.
- The community traded with the world, and designed and manufactured to sell into that market, including very ornate objects and fancy materials.
- The works I've described thus far had one thing in common - they were discreet objects made with durable materials.
- And while Bob might not be able to touch objects, he can touch people, and soon becomes a part of the family.
- If I was touching objects in the airport, I was very careful to wash my hands with alcohol.
- The group's knowledge of everyday objects and materials will then be tested through a quiz and the children will discover how fragments of history can help us build up a picture of the past.
- Scarcity seems equally intractable at first - the Internet is certainly not going to eliminate shortages of material objects or time or ability.
- Just as in art everything depends on a limited but skillful use of color and sounds, so too the art of living demands a limited but skillful use of material objects.
- Is it the result of the consumerist culture that has gripped us, or the need to possess material objects in order to reassure ourselves of our own worth?
- My scooter is still very much a material object: it eats petrol, needs its tires filled and refuses to start on cold mornings.
- The photogram technique uses only light, an object and light-sensitive materials, such as ice, water and glass.
- It is all a bit sci-fi and cosmic, but somehow the surface never stops reminding you that this is a material object, something made with the hand and the eye and the body's own chemistry.
Synonyms thing, article, item, piece, device, gadget, entity, body - 1.1Philosophy A thing external to the thinking mind or subject.
Example sentencesExamples - We do not perceive the external object but only its effects in consciousness.
- Schopenhauer's second class of objects for the mind is made up of concepts.
- It is neither an external object nor an inner experience.
- Where Fichte in particular was happy to absorb the object into the subject, Kant preferred inconsistency to such a move.
- This was unsatisfactory because the external object is something foreign or hostile to self-consciousness.
2A person or thing to which a specified action or feeling is directed. disease became the object of investigation Example sentencesExamples - If you do not declare yourself immediately, you arouse expectation, especially when the importance of your position makes you the object of general attention.
- The women screamed in unison all eager to be the object of Joe's attention if only for a second, but all too timid to volunteer.
- Despite being the object of much attention right now, the struggle for control over content probably isn't very meaningful to mass audiences.
- But the object of all this attention could not be more unassuming.
- They are the object of public pity for their heroic battles against addiction.
- She noted that she was the object of attention of a tall, dark-haired figure whose face remained hidden by the flurry of the crowd.
- The relationship between environment and organisms became the object of his attention.
- The romance became public when the object of her affection, a Swiss named Franco, announced plans to divorce his wife.
- The issues are the object of ongoing investigations.
- While the object of his investigation is novel, his conclusions will be familiar to students of nineteenth-century America.
- But he has links to men who are the object of a federal investigation into a West Coast laboratory.
- It turned out that she'd been the object of so much attention that she had to hide in the girls' room to get a breather.
- Haunted by accusations made against his father and searching for a buried fortune, he becomes the object of a manhunt organised by a posse of bandits.
- Talk about star-crossed lovers, each invisible to the object of their attention.
- When I was much younger, I was the object of attention for one thing - my derrière.
- For the object of their attention at Beningbrough Hall is described as one of the finest Baroque state beds to survive in England.
- The object of their attention is not a group of beautiful Bollywood starlets or the latest icon of Hindi pop.
- My dislike increases to hate when the object of my desire is a pair of work shoes in summer.
- The greater the part played in our lives by the object of our attention the greater the loss.
- If the object of a public consultation is to find out what the market thinks, Black's Consulting is on the right track.
Synonyms target, butt, focus, recipient, victim - 2.1 A goal or purpose.
the Institute was opened with the object of promoting scientific study Example sentencesExamples - This decision does illustrate how closely the express and implied powers of specialized agencies must be related to their specific objects and purposes.
- The object and purpose of the Foreshore and Seabed Bill were set out clearly in clause 2A and clause 3.
- The board is adopting devices and methods to defeat the very purpose and object of the Bank.
- In other words, it must be shown that the object or purpose of the defendant is to inflict harm on the claimant, either as an end in itself, or as a means to another end.
- That preliminary record is then published with the object of inviting comments and objections from persons interested either in the subsistence of the right of way or to deny its subsistence.
- The genesis, the objective aim, object and commercial purpose of the transaction and its factual matrix are important as older authorities show.
- That qualification is a test for determining whether there is a legitimate object or purpose of the legislature.
- It is contrary to the spirit, purpose and objects of the Act to protect a defaulting owner from having to pay his share by a narrow reading of the language relating to a tool for the collection of what is owing.
- The result would hardly prove consistent with the object and purpose of the Statute and its intent to put an end to impunity for the perpetrators of the most serious crimes.
- And, what is the value, the object, the purpose of having those words in the Constitution?
- A goal is an object that the eye is focused on for the purpose of attaining it through constant attention and effort.
- It is an object, a goal, a future state of being to be passively wished for and waited upon.
- The text of the Preamble to the Convention is an important source for determining its object and purpose.
- A new military expedition was launched with the object of proceeding to the second stage of the original plan, now that the first had failed: the Grand Canal was to be cut at Nanjing.
- If one of the parties does so and the other is unaware of the illegal purpose the party whose object is illegal cannot enforce the obligation of the other.
- To reap the benefits of exercise on your sex life, plan more active dates with the object of your affection.
- A latitude extending thus far might lead to results incompatible with the object and purpose of the Convention.
- In 1899 he founded the magazine World of Art, with the object of interchanging artistic ideas with Western Europe.
- The question is the extent to which the object in nature as goal remains the same.
- I do not accept that they, or the Lee / Eadie conversation, are admissible as showing the object and purpose of the saving provision.
Synonyms purpose, objective, aim, goal, target, end, end in view, plan, object of the exercise
3Grammar
A noun or noun phrase governed by an active transitive verb or by a preposition. Example sentencesExamples - Using a straight news story, circle all the direct objects in blue, the indirect objects in red, and the objects of prepositions in green.
- Earlier forerunners rely entirely on intransitive or quasi-transitive verbs, with the object preceded by a preposition.
- All languages have something like nouns and verbs, isolating objects, entities, events, and abstractions.
- Verbs can be either transitive or intransitive a transitive verb governs an object, whereas an intransitive verb does not.
- Mohawk is a polysynthetic language, in which noun objects can easily be incorporated into the verb.
4Computing
A data construct that provides a description of something that may be used by a computer (such as a processor, a peripheral, a document, or a data set) and defines its status, its method of operation, and how it interacts with other objects. Example sentencesExamples - System and method for distributed conflict resolution between data objects replicated across a computer network
- What is new is the scope and scale of the application of rich metadata to a much wider variety of content objects - intranets, extranets and even the Web.
- In order to put the Mason components and Perl objects on separate computers, we somehow need the ability to call an object method across a network.
- That data is then lost on shutdown, but this is not acceptable a way must be provided for storing objects in secondary storage.
- This method provides the ServletConfig object for initializing the servlet's parameters.
verbəbˈjektəbˈdʒɛkt 1reporting verb Say something to express one's disapproval of or disagreement with something. no object residents object to the volume of traffic with clause the boy's father objected that the police had arrested him unlawfully Example sentencesExamples - However, in this legislation there is no opportunity for the police to object to the concealment occurring if a person meets the criteria of the Act.
- He said he would object to being relocated, arguing that he had lived in the area for more than 30 years.
- In this particular case the major reason for opposing an increase of a handful of dwellings was to object to a precedent being set.
- Are you talking of the whole article or is the matter complained of simply the paragraph that you object to?
- I was hoping we might have got a bit more support from local police, but they didn't object to it.
- However, the project has already prompted a barrage of protest from people who object to unsightly turbines on the land.
- In the end, Zahra was quite jealous, but only because she had gotten dressed while there was still time for their father to object to some of the outfits she wanted to wear.
- What we object to are the attitudes that lurk beneath the surface his writing such as the persistent and recurring notion that contemporary art is guilty until proven innocent.
- The council will then become the licensing authority, but the police will have the same power to object to unsuitable applications.
- I wouldn't object to the cameras so much if there was a police presence to crack down on other motoring offences.
- ‘If the parents are unhappy about the mast then we will object to it in the strongest possible way and we will help parents with their campaign,’ he said.
- Trouble is, like many concerned carnivores, I object to the way most U.S. beef is raised.
- Only the police may object to conversion, and then only on crime prevention grounds.
- I object to seeing policemen in uniform holding hands in public - it's not a family way of life and we should support the family more.
- Those who object to it argue that it misrepresents half the human race and reinforces male bias and social dominance.
- No child custody issues were implicated whatsoever under the Ninth Circuit ruling, only the father's rights to object to unconstitutional conduct.
- Those who disagree with the practice may object to this definition but I think it is quite accurate.
- Still, he chose not to object to his father, opting for silence instead.
- Five people were arrested today after staging an illegal demonstration outside parliament to object to new laws restricting protests in the area.
- With that in mind, I must heartily object to Jane's hypothetical above.
Synonyms protest, protest against, lodge a protest, lodge a protest against, express objections, raise objections, express objections to, raise objections to, express disapproval, express disapproval of, express disagreement, express disagreement with, oppose, be in opposition, be in opposition to, take exception, take exception to, take issue, take issue with, take a stand against, have a problem, have a problem with, argue, argue against, remonstrate, remonstrate against, make a fuss, make a fuss about, quarrel with, disapprove, disapprove of, condemn, draw the line, draw the line at, demur, mind, complain, complain about, moan, moan about, grumble, grumble about, grouse, grouse about, cavil, cavil at, quibble, quibble about - 1.1archaic with object Adduce as a reason against something.
Bryant objects this very circumstance to the authenticity of the Iliad
Phrases Not influencing or restricting choices or decisions. a tycoon for whom money is no object Example sentencesExamples - I have to say that if money was no object and I had my choice of notebook computers, the T41p would be at the very top of my list.
- Granite World cover the entire region with distance no object.
- I don't know if he was in a different town at the time, but even if he was, this is a man to whom the money or means to get to her bedside would have been no object!
- It has to have at least six bedrooms and it's fair to say that money is no object.
- But the accounts refer to before the English Civil War when he organised journeys for Buckingham and his Royal friends - with expense no object.
- Distance is no object to Magic Maintenance who offer reasonable and competitive rates for the services provided.
- A number of councillors have staked their reputations on getting this project done, and in that respect, the cost to the ratepayer is no object.
- With money no object, the 600-acre grounds were no less spectacular, with soil specially imported from the mainland to create a wooded landscape on a virtually treeless island.
- Price is no object; if it's wonderful, we'll pay whatever you ask.
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. |