Object vs Ideal - What's the difference?

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Object is a related term of ideal.

As nouns the difference between object and ideal

is that object is a thing that has physical existence while ideal is ideal (perfect standard).

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)

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

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

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ideal

English

Adjective

(en adjective)

Optimal; being the best possibility.

Perfect, flawless, having no defects.

* Rambler

There will always be a wide interval between practical and ideal excellence.

Pertaining to ideas, or to a given idea.

Existing only in the mind; conceptual, imaginary.

* 1796 , Matthew Lewis, The Monk , Folio Society 1985, p. 256:

The idea of ghosts is ridiculous in the extreme; and if you continue to be swayed by ideal terrors —

* 1818 , ,^{[[s:Frankenstein/Chapter 4, Chapter 4],}

Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world.

Teaching or relating to the doctrine of idealism.

the ideal theory or philosophy

(mathematics) Not actually present, but considered as present when limits at infinity are included.

ideal point

An ideal triangle in the hyperbolic disk is one bounded by three geodesics that meet precisely on the circle.

Synonyms

* See also

Noun

(en noun)

A perfect standard of beauty, intellect etc., or a standard of excellence to aim at.

Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach your destiny -

(mathematics, order theory) A non-empty]] lower set (of a partially ordered set) which is [[closure, closed under binary suprema (a.k.a. joins).^{[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boolean_prime_ideal_theorem#Prime_ideal_theorems]}

If (1) the empty set were called a "small" set, and (2) any subset of a "small" set were also a "small" set, and (3) the union of any pair of "small" sets were also a "small" set, then the set of all "small" sets would form an ideal .

(for example, algebra) A subring closed under multiplication by its containing ring.

Let

\mathbb{Z}

be the ring of integers and let

2\mathbb{Z}

be its ideal of even integers. Then the quotient ring

\mathbb{Z} / 2\mathbb{Z}

is a Boolean ring.

The product of two ideals

\mathfrak{a}

and

\mathfrak{b}

is an ideal

\mathfrak{a b}

which is a subset of the intersection of

\mathfrak{a}

and

\mathfrak{b}

. This should help to understand why maximal ideals' are prime ' ideals . Likewise, the union of

\mathfrak{a}

and

\mathfrak{b}

is a subset of

\mathfrak{a + b}

Antonyms

* (order theory) filter

Derived terms

* left ideal * right ideal * two-sided ideal * principal ideal

External links

* (wikipedia)

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