object

A thing that has physical existence but is not alive.

Objective; goal, end or purpose of something.

Money is an Object to you? Money is an Object to me.

And yet it may be proper to show that if time were an object, little, if any thing, would necessarily be gained by sprinkling in place of immersion, where a large number had to be baptized.

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 the object of his desire, was now the object of his hatred.

A person or thing toward which an emotion is directed.

Money is no object to him.

To disagree with or oppose something or someone; (especially in a Court of Law) to raise an objection.

I object to the proposal to build a new airport terminal.

We strongly object to sending her to jail for ten years.

To offer in opposition as a criminal charge or by way of accusation or reproach; to adduce as an objection or adverse reason.

We thanke you both, yet one but flatters vs, As well appeareth by the cauſe you come, Namely, to appeale each other of high treaſon. Cooſin of Hereford, what doſt thou obiect Againſt the Duke of Norfolke, Thomas Mowbray?

He 'gan to him object his heinous Crime,

To set before or against; to bring into opposition; to oppose.

early 17th century, Edward Fairfax, Godfrey of Bulloigne: or The recovery of Jerusalem. Of less account some knight thereto object, / Whose loss so great and harmful can not prove.

c. 1678, Richard Hooker, a sermon some strong impediment or other objecting itself