object (verb)
51object — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. thing, item; goal, aim, purpose, objective. See substance, intention. v. i. disapprove, demur, challenge, protest, resist, kick. See disapprobation, dissent, unity. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [A corporeal… …
52object — 1. noun 1) wooden objects Syn: thing, article, item, device, gadget, entity; informal doodad, thingamajig, thingamabob, whatsit, whatchamacallit, thingy, doohickey, dingus 2) he spent five years as the object of a frenzied manhunt …
53object — 1. noun 1) wooden objects Syn: thing, article, item, entity 2) the object of criticism Syn: target, butt, focus, recipient, victim 3) his object was t …
54object complement — Gram. a word or a group of words used in the predicate following a factitive verb and referring to its direct object, as treasurer in We appointed him treasurer, white in They painted the house white, or an interesting speaker in They thought him …
55object-control — adjective A control verb whose shared object is not the subject …
56object complement — ob′ject com′plement n. gram. a noun, noun phrase, pronoun, or adjective used in the predicate following a factitive verb and referring to or identified with its direct object, as treasurer in We appointed him treasurer or white in They painted… …
57object complement — Gram. a word or a group of words used in the predicate following a factitive verb and referring to its direct object, as treasurer in We appointed him treasurer, white in They painted the house white, or an interesting speaker in They thought him …
58verb — verbless, adj. /verrb/, n. any member of a class of words that are formally distinguished in many languages, as in English by taking the past ending in ed, that function as the main elements of predicates, that typically express action, state, or …
59verb — vÉœrb /vÉœËb n. part of speech used to express action or state of being or the relationship between the subject and object in a sentence (Grammar) …
60verb — [[t]vɜrb[/t]] n. gram. a member of a class of words that function as the main elements of predicates, typically express action, state, or a relation between two things, and are often formally distinguished, as by being inflected for tense, aspect …
