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Object vs Adjective - What's the difference?

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In grammar terms the difference between object and adjective

is that object is 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 while adjective is a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent.

In obsolete terms the difference between object and adjective

is that object is sight; show; appearance; aspect while adjective is a dependent; an accessory.

As nouns the difference between object and adjective

is that object is a thing that has physical existence while adjective is a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent.

As verbs the difference between object and adjective

is that object is to disagree with something or someone; especially in a Court of Law, to raise an objection while adjective is to make an adjective of; to form or convert into an adjective.

As an adjective adjective is

incapable of independent function.

object

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A thing that has physical existence.
  • The goal, end or purpose of something.
  • * 2000, Phyllis Barkas Goldman & John Grigni, Monkeyshines on Ancient Cultures
    • The object of tlachtli was to keep the rubber ball from touching the ground while trying to push it to the opponent's endline.
  • (grammar) 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 object''' of his desire, was now the '''object of his hatred.
  • (computing) In object-oriented programming, an instantiation of a class or structure.
  • (obsolete) Sight; show; appearance; aspect.
  • * Chapman
    • He, advancing close / Up to the lake, past all the rest, arose / In glorious object .
    (Shakespeare)

    Synonyms

    * (thing) article, item, thing * (person or thing toward which an emotion is directed) target * See also

    Derived terms

    * art object * celestial object * deep-sky object * depicted object * direct object * exponential object * first-class object * foreign object * found object * function object * God object * Herbig-Haro object * immutable object * indirect object * initial object * Kuiper belt object/KBO * mental object * Messier object * mock object * mutable object * natural object * null object * object ball * object blindness * object code * object complement * object glass * object language * object lens * object lesson * object orientation * object pronoun * object space * object-control * objecthood * objectify * objectionable * objective * object-oriented * physical object * prepositional object * retained object * second-class object * sex object * superluminal object * terminal object * third-class object * unidentified flying object/UFO

    Related terms

    * object graph * objet d’art

    See also

    * subject

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To disagree with something or someone; especially in a Court of Law, to raise an objection.
    • I object to the proposal to build a new airport terminal.
  • (obsolete) To offer in opposition as a criminal charge or by way of accusation or reproach; to adduce as an objection or adverse reason.
  • * Spenser
    • He gave to him to object his heinous crime.
  • * Addison
    • Others object the poverty of the nation.
  • * Whitgift
    • The book giveth liberty to object any crime against such as are to be ordered.
  • (obsolete) To set before or against; to bring into opposition; to oppose.
  • * Fairfax
    • Of less account some knight thereto object , / Whose loss so great and harmful can not prove.
  • * Hooker
    • some strong impediment or other objecting itself
  • * Alexander Pope
    • Pallas to their eyes / The mist objected , and condensed the skies.

    Derived terms

    * objection

    Statistics

    * English heteronyms 1000 English basic words ----

    adjective

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (obsolete) Incapable of independent function.
  • * 1899 , , Emerson and Other Essays , AMS Press (1969) (as [http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/13088 reproduced] in Project Gutenberg)
    • In fact, God is of not so much importance in Himself, but as the end towards which man tends. That irreverent person who said that Browning uses “God” as a pigment made an accurate criticism of his theology. In Browning, God is adjective to man.
  • (grammar) Adjectival; pertaining to or functioning as an adjective.
  • (legal) Applying to methods of enforcement and rules of procedure.
  • * Macaulay
    • The whole English law, substantive and adjective .
  • (chemistry, of a dye) Needing the use of a mordant to be made fast to that which is being dyed.

    • Synonyms

    * (incapable of independent function) dependent, derivative * (functioning as an adjective) adjectival * (applying to methods of enforcement and rules of procedure) procedural

    Antonyms

    * (applying to methods of enforcement and rules of procedure) substantive * (of a dye that needs the use of a mordant) substantive

    Derived terms

    * adjectival * adjective clause * adjective phrase * adjective patterns * proper adjective * common adjective

    Noun

    (en noun) (wikipedia adjective)
  • (grammar) A word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent.
    • The words “big” and “heavy” are English adjectives .
  • (obsolete) A dependent; an accessory.
    • (Fuller)

    Hyponyms

    * See also

    Verb

    (adjectiv)
  • To make an adjective of; to form or convert into an adjective.
  • * Tooke
    • Language has as much occasion to adjective' the distinct signification of the verb, and to adjective also the mood, as it has to adjective time. It has ' adjectived all three.
  • * 1832 , William Hunter, An Anglo-Saxon grammar, and derivatives (page 46)
    • In English, instead of adjectiving' our own substantives, we have borrowed, in immense numbers, ' adjectived signs from other languages