objects
对象,物体,物件,物品
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Definitions
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- : anything that is visible or tangible and is relatively stable in form.
- : a thing, person, or matter to which thought or action is directed: an object of medical investigation.
- : the end toward which effort or action is directed; goal; purpose: Profit is the object of business.
- : a person or thing with reference to the impression made on the mind or the feeling or emotion elicited in an observer: an object of curiosity and pity.
- : anything that may be apprehended intellectually: objects of thought.
- : Optics. the thing of which a lens or mirror forms an image.
- : Grammar. a noun, noun phrase, or noun substitute representing by its syntactical position either the goal of the action of a verb or the goal of a preposition in a prepositional phrase, as ball in John hit the ball, Venice in He came to Venice, coin and her in He gave her a coin.Compare direct object, indirect object.
- : Digital Technology. any item that can be individually selected or manipulated, as a picture, data file, or piece of text.in object-oriented programming, a self-contained entity that consists of both data and operations to manipulate the data.
- : Metaphysics. something toward which a cognitive act is directed.
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Examples
Physicists don’t usually deal with objects of different sizes at the same time.
Powerful gusts not only blow objects around, they also churn up massive waves called storm surges.
When you only look at things close-up, your eyes don’t get practice focusing on distant objects.
GPT-3’s word embeddings are not perceptually grounded in the world, which explains why it often struggles to consistently answer common-sense questions about visual and physical features of familiar objects.
It’s not yet clear what this object is and what its purpose might be.
But by far the most interesting object, which held enormous fascination for me, sat high up on the top shelf.
And who better to do that with than the actress who is playing the object of said (alleged) lesbian affection in the flick?
If they run off with somebody else, we say they were stolen—as if they are an object or a commodity.
He can barely speak the titles, but manages to let Viridiana and That Obscure Object of Desire pass from his lips.
The show, Bell Hooks argued in Black Looks: Race and Representation, “represents wom[e]n as the object of a phallocentric gaze.”
The thought seemed to produce the dreaded object, for next moment a large hummock appeared right ahead.
Naturally the conversation fell on the all-absorbing topic of the day and the object of his mission.
To make the effort of articulation a vital impulse in response to a mental concept,—this is the object sought.