object
n. countablen. a physical thing that you can see and touch. It can also mean the person or thing that receives the action of a verb in a sentence.
n. a material thing that can be seen and touched; also, the noun phrase representing the entity that is acted upon by a verb or governed by a preposition.
There is a strange object on the table.
In the sentence 'The cat caught the mouse', the word 'mouse' is the direct object.
The museum's collection includes several everyday objects from the Victorian era, alongside more specialized tools used in early industrial manufacturing.
From Old French object, from Medieval Latin obiectum (“object”, literally “thrown against”), from obiectus, perfect passive participle of obiciō (“to throw against”), from ob- (“against”) + iaciō (“to throw”), as a calque of Ancient Greek ἀντικείμενον (antikeímenon). Doublet of objectum and objet.
In a grammatical context, it refers to the noun or pronoun that receives the action of a transitive verb.