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di·rect ob·ject
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Princeton's WordNet
direct object, object of the verbnoun
the object that receives the direct action of the verb
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direct objectnoun
The noun or noun phrase that a verb is directly acting upon.
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direct object
In linguistics, an object is any of several types of arguments. In subject-prominent, nominative-accusative languages such as English, a transitive verb typically distinguishes between its subject and any of its objects, which can include but are not limited to direct objects, indirect objects, and arguments of adpositions (prepositions or postpositions); the latter are more accurately termed oblique arguments, thus including other arguments not covered by core grammatical roles, such as those governed by case morphology (as in languages such as Latin) or relational nouns (as is typical for members of the Mesoamerican Linguistic Area). In ergative-absolutive languages, for example most Australian Aboriginal languages, the term "subject" is ambiguous, and thus the term "agent" is often used instead to contrast with "object", such that basic word order is often spoken of in terms such as Agent-Object-Verb (AOV) instead of Subject-Object-Verb (SOV). Topic-prominent languages, such as Mandarin, focus their grammars less on the subject-object or agent-object dichotomies but rather on the pragmatic dichotomy of topic and comment.
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direct object
A direct object is a noun, pronoun, or noun phrase that receives the action of a transitive verb in a sentence. It answers the question "What?" or "Whom?" after the verb, indicating who or what is at the receiving end of the action. For example, in the sentence "She baked a cake," "a cake" is the direct object being acted upon by the verb "baked."
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of direct object in Chaldean Numerology is: 5
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of direct object in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6
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