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object

In grammar, the recipient of the action of the verb in a sentence. The object can be a noun, a pronoun, a noun phrase, or a noun clause. Transitive verbs take a direct object and with some verbs there may also be an indirect object or an equivalent complement.

object

In computing, an item created on a page in desktop publishing, Web publishing, and also in many office applications.

Each object can have its attributes defined, to adjust layering, border style, transparency, etc.



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Unless we are to acquiesce in the view that we can never be conscious of anything outside our own minds, we must say that the object of consciousness need not be mental, though the consciousness must be.
thou desperate Object," cried the Dishonest Gain; "these beautiful private grounds are no place for such work as thine.
The object of knowledge would appear to exist before knowledge itself, for it is usually the case that we acquire knowledge of objects already existing; it would be difficult, if not impossible, to find a branch of knowledge the beginning of the existence of which was contemporaneous with that of its object.
 
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