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object

noun as in thing able to be seen/felt/perceived

noun as in purpose, use

noun as in aim, recipient

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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.

The object of this practise is to attain facility in manipulating the elements while maintaining the smooth quality of the tone.

Every time he is dressed, or sees his mother dress, he has an object-lesson in symmetrical arrangement.

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On this page you'll find 201 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to object, such as: article, body, commodity, gadget, item, and matter.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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