Direct Object Definition

noun
The word or words denoting the thing or person that receives the action of a transitive verb; goal or result of a verbal action (Ex.: ball in “he hit the ball”)
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(grammar) The noun or noun phrase that a verb is directly acting upon.

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Synonyms:
  • object of the verb
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adjective
Attributive form of direct object, noun.
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Other Word Forms of Direct Object

Noun

Singular:
direct object
Plural:
direct-objects

Direct Object Sentence Examples

  • Although the direct object of Pasteur was to prove a negative, yet it was on these experiments that sterilization as known to us was developed.

  • These self-governing colonies with their spheres of influence, with vast areas still unpeopled, have a future before them which is dissociated from the methods of an over-peopled Europe, and among them the preservation of peace is the direct object and condition of their progressive development.

  • There are, however, a large number of conventions which, although not concluded with the direct object of assuring peace where difficulties have arisen, tend in a very practical manner to contract the area of possible difficulties.

  • Moral goodness, then, in a " sensible creature " implies primarily disinterested affections, whose direct object is the good of others; but Shaftesbury does not mean (as he has been misunderstood to mean) that only such benevolent social impulses are good, and that these are always good.

  • And then 3 vi (verb intransitive) meaning verbs which do not take a direct object.

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Words Starting With

DDIDIR

Words Ending With

TCTECT

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direct object

Words Starting With D and Ending With T

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13 Letter Words13 Letter Words Starting With D13 Letter Words Ending With T