Repel vs Object - What's the difference?
repel | object |
* , II.3.7:
To reject, put off (a request, demand etc.).
To ward off (a malignant influence, attack etc.).
To drive back (an assailant, advancing force etc.).
* 2011 , Ian Traynor, The Guardian , 19 May 2011:
(physics) To force away by means of a repulsive force.
To cause repulsion, cause dislike.
* 2008 , The Guardian , 26 Jan 2008:
(sports) To save (a shot).
* {{quote-news, year=2011, date=December 10, author=David Ornstein, work=BBC Sport
, title= 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
As verbs the difference between repel and object
is that repel is while object is to disagree with something or someone; especially in a court of law, to raise an objection.As a noun object is
a thing that has physical existence.repel
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Verb
(repell)- It is some satisfaction to him that is repelled , that dignities, honours, offices, are not alwayes given by desert or worth, but for love, affinitie, friendship, affection, great mens letters, or as commonly they are bought and sold.
- In nearby Zintan, rebels repelled an advance by Gaddafi's forces, killing eight and taking one prisoner, a local activist said.
- However, while the idea of a free holiday appeals enormously, I am frankly repelled by the idea of spending a couple of weeks in your company.
Arsenal 1-0 Everton, passage=Arsenal pressed forward again after half-time but other than a venomous Walcott shot that Howard repelled with a fine one-handed save, the hosts offered little cutting edge.}}
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*object
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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.