Object vs Creature - What's the difference?
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A thing that has physical existence.
The goal, end or purpose of something.
* 2000, Phyllis Barkas Goldman & John Grigni, Monkeyshines on Ancient Cultures
(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.
(computing) In object-oriented programming, an instantiation of a class or structure.
(obsolete) Sight; show; appearance; aspect.
* Chapman
To disagree with something or someone; especially in a Court of Law, to raise an objection.
(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
* Addison
* Whitgift
(obsolete) To set before or against; to bring into opposition; to oppose.
* Fairfax
* Hooker
* Alexander Pope
A created thing, whether animate or inanimate; a creation.
* 1633 , (John Donne), "Sapho to Philænis":
* 1646 , (Thomas Browne), Pseudodoxia Epidemica , I.10:
* {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers), title=(A Cuckoo in the Nest)
, chapter=1 A living being; an animal or human.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-08, volume=407, issue=8839, page=55, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= A being subservient to or dependent upon another.
* 1988 , James McPherson, Battle Cry for Freedom , Oxford 2003, p. 240:
Object is a related term of creature.
As nouns the difference between object and creature
is that object is a thing that has physical existence while creature is (archaic|chiefly|literary|and|philosophy).As a verb object
is to disagree with something or someone; especially in a court of law, to raise an objection.object
English
Noun
(en noun)- The object of tlachtli was to keep the rubber ball from touching the ground while trying to push it to the opponent's endline.
- 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.
- 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 alsoDerived 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/UFOSee also
* subjectVerb
(en verb)- I object to the proposal to build a new airport terminal.
- He gave to him to object his heinous crime.
- Others object the poverty of the nation.
- The book giveth liberty to object any crime against such as are to be ordered.
- Of less account some knight thereto object , / Whose loss so great and harmful can not prove.
- some strong impediment or other objecting itself
- Pallas to their eyes / The mist objected , and condensed the skies.
Derived terms
* objectioncreature
English
Alternative forms
*Noun
(en noun)- Thoughts, my mindes creatures , often are with thee, / But I, their maker, want their libertie.
- the natural truth of God is an artificial erection of Man, and the Creator himself but a subtile invention of the Creature .
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- they, too, despite the appearance of being creatures rather than creators of the Union, could assert the prior sovereignty of their states, for each had formed a state constitution […] before petitioning Congress for admission to the Union.