An approach to poetry in which the poet is regarded as just one object among the other objects in existence, rather than a subject through which they are mediated.

(accounting) Something to which costs are assigned; anything for which a separate measurement of cost is required.

(psychology) An object, such as a security blanket or stuffed toy, used by a young child to self-soothe and cope with separation from a parent or other attachment figure.

(astronomy, astrology) Synonym of celestial body.

(linguistics) A control verb whose shared object is not the subject.

(grammar) A grammatical role of a ditransitive verb that manifests a secondary or passive participant in an action, often a recipient or goal.

(grammar, in languages without cases) The noun or noun phrase that a verb is directly acting upon.

The region of space containing objects that an optical system can form images of.

(grammar) A pronoun that is used as the object of a sentence, such as "me", "him" or "us" in English.

A natural object, or one manufactured for some other purpose, considered as a work of art.