(v. t.) To set before or against; to bring into opposition; to oppose.
(v. t.) To offer in opposition as a criminal charge or by way of accusation or reproach; to adduce as an objection or adverse reason.
(v. i.) To make opposition in words or argument; -- usually followed by to.
(v. t.) That which is put, or which may be regarded as put, in the way of some of the senses; something visible or tangible; as, he observed an object in the distance; all the objects in sight; he touched a strange object in the dark.
(v. t.) That which is set, or which may be regarded as set, before the mind so as to be apprehended or known; that of which the mind by any of its activities takes cognizance, whether a thing external in space or a conception formed by the mind itself; as, an object of knowledge, wonder, fear, thought, study, etc.
(v. t.) That by which the mind, or any of its activities, is directed; that on which the purpose are fixed as the end of action or effort; that which is sought for; end; aim; motive; final cause.
(v. t.) Sight; show; appearance; aspect.
(v. t.) A word, phrase, or clause toward which an action is directed, or is considered to be directed; as, the object of a transitive verb.
(a.) Opposed; presented in opposition; also, exposed.
Example Sentences:
(1) We maximize an objective function that includes both total production rate and product concentration.
(2) Theoretical objections have been raised to the use of He-O2 as treatment regimen.
(3) The stepped approach is cost-effective and provides an objective basis for decisions and priority setting.
(4) The methodology, in algorithm form, should assist health planners in developing objectives and actions related to the occurrence of selected health status indicators and should be amenable to health care interventions.
(5) Further improvement of results will be possible by early operation, a desirable objective.
(6) It is proposed that microoscillations of the eye increase the threshold for detection of retinal target displacements, leading to less efficient lateral sway stabilization than expected, and that the threshold for detection of self motion in the A-P direction is lower than the threshold for object motion detection used in the calculations, leading to more efficient stabilization of A-P sway.
(7) The law would let people find out if partners had a history of domestic violence but is likely to face objections from civil liberties groups.
(8) The objective remission rate was 67%, and a subjective response was observed in 75% of all cases.
(9) The objective of this study was to examine the effects of different culture media used for maturation of bovine oocytes on in vitro embryo development following in vitro fertilization.
(10) Reversible male contraception is another objective that remains beyond our reach at present.
(11) Among the major symptoms were gastrointestinal disorders such as subjective and objective anorexia, nausea and vomiting.
(12) To alleviate these problems we developed an object-oriented user interface for the pipeline programs.
(13) The objective of this work was to determine the efficacy of an endoscopic approach coupled to a Nd:YAG laser fiber in performing arytenoidectomy.
(14) Since the employment of microwave energy for defrosting biological tissues and for microwave-aided diagnosis in cryosurgery is very promising, the problem of ensuring the match between the contact antennas (applicators) and the frozen biological object has become a pressing one.
(15) Technically speaking, this modality of brief psychotherapy is based on the nonuse of transferential interpretations, on impeding the regression od the patient, on facilitating a cognitice-affective development of his conflicts and thus obtain an internal object mutation which allows the transformation of the "past" into true history, and the "present" into vital perspectives.
(16) In this way complex interpretations can be made objective, so that they may be adequately tested.
(17) This paper provides an overview of the theory, indicating its contributions--such as a basis for individual psychotherapy of severe disorders and a more effective understanding of countertransference--and its shortcomings--such as lack of an explanation for the effects of physical and cognitive factors on object relatedness.
(18) Somewhat more children of both Head Start and the nursery school showed semantic mastery based on both heard and spoken identification for positions based on body-object relations (in, on, and under) than for those based on object-object relations (in fromt of, between, and in back of).
(19) The visual processes revealed in these experiments are considered in terms of inferred illumination and surface reflectances of objects in natural scenes.
(20) Among 71 evaluable patients 25% showed objective tumor response (three complete, 15 partial), at all three dose levels and irrespective of the major tumor site.
Objectionable
Definition:
(a.) Liable to objection; likely to be objected to or disapproved of; offensive; as, objectionable words.
Example Sentences:
(1) A branch of the Labour party of Malaysia was censured for staging a concert at which "two objectionable songs were sung in spite of the fact that the police had registered their disapproval".
(2) GMP problems associated with microbiological environmental monitoring are among those most commonly cited as objectionable during FDA inspections of parenteral drug manufacturing facilities.
(3) The use of clear plastic suction curette is objectionable because the operator can see the embryonic parts and sac as it passes through the tube.
(4) Yates was challenged by Mark Reckless MP to explain why he was willing to use public money to pay for lawyers to threaten newspapers whose reports he found objectionable, while victims of the hacking affair had had to spend large amounts of their own money to take civil actions to uncover the truth about crimes committed against them.
(5) In these cases there has been evidence of large sums of cash, the possession of objectionable material and other indicators for border force officers to take the action they have taken on these occasions.” Earlier in the week the Labor opposition questioned the government’s handling of national security, pointing to two separate cases of people leaving Australia on their brothers’ passports, including the convicted terrorist Khaled Sharrouf in December.
(6) Some time ago it promised to make illegal the objectionable practice of restaurants paying their staff less than the minimum wage and using their tips to make up the difference.
(7) There is much that is deeply objectionable about this.
(8) The use of SVV reduces the rate of the most objectionable of the common adverse effects of influenza vaccination.
(9) No serious adverse reactions occurred, but objectionable taste, constipation, and nausea were seen more frequently with active medication (P = 0.04).
(10) He’s just one man, made objectionable by never being questioned.
(11) Natural water suitable for direct bottling must be clear, colourless, and free from objectionable taste and odour.
(12) It may be difficult to believe but Morgan wasn't always quite so objectionable.
(13) So high a vegetable contamination is due to objectionable location of the "Podzamcze" employees' plots of gardens in Szczytna, related to the close vicinity of the "Sudety" Glassworks, wind rose and traffic arteries.
(14) Discrimination against HIV-infected persons is objectionable for moral reasons and may be counterproductive to public health.
(15) Sporicidin at this concentration appears to demonstrate efficacy as an antimicrobial agent, but dermal irritation, sensitivity and yellowing of the skin, and its objectionable odor may preclude its routine clinical use.
(16) The K for eye contact was .84; refusal , .85; leaving the situation, 1.0; and specifying objectionable behavior, .90.
(17) Second, it is argued that the operation is not objectionably deceptive, since, if there is such a thing as our 'real sex', we do not know (ordinarily) what it is.
(18) He classified material likely to affect patients adversely as puzzling or unintelligible, alarming, apparently insulting or objectionable, or sensitive information from or about others.
(19) It constitutes highly objectionable and unethical behaviour."
(20) The objectionable features of Etomidate are high incidence of pain on injection and involuntary muscular activity, which account for the low anaesthetist acceptance rate.