Lexic.us

Definition of Object language

1. Noun. A computer language into which something written in another computer language is to be translated.

2. Noun. The language into which a text written in another language is to be translated.

Definition of Object language

1. Noun. (philosophy) A language or a part of a language that is used to speak about objects but not about sentences or propositions. ¹

2. Noun. (lexicography) the language of the headwords in a dictionary (in a French-to-English translation dictionary, French is the object language)(R:Nordisk leksikografisk) ¹

3. Noun. (computing) target language; the language of the object code, the output of a compiler (not necessarily executable machine code) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Object Language

object-oriented programing language object-oriented programming object-oriented programming language object adapter pattern object adapter patterns object attachment object ball object blindness object choice object code

object complement object constancy object field object language (current term) object lesson object manipulation object of a preposition object of the verb object oriented programming object permanence

object program object pronoun object pronouns object recognition object relationship object space object spaces objectable

Literary usage of Object language

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Calcutta Review by University of Calcutta (1921)
"This means that the so-called metalinguistic statement " 'Calcutta is a nasty city' is true" is identical with the statement of object-language "Calcutta is ..."

2. The Power of Point-of-Purchase Advertising: Marketing at Retailby Robert Liljenwall by Robert Liljenwall (2004)
"object language Design school students often hear the term "object language" ... The premise behind object language states that a consumer should be able to ..."

3. The Indiana School Journal by Indiana State Teachers Association (1881)
"Subject of the principal clause, she, unmodified ; predicate, speaks, modified by its object language and the adverbial phrase to him. ..."

4. The Education of Man by Friedrich Fröbel, William Nicholas Hailmann (1887)
"The form represents the object; language, too, tends to represent and picture the object. It was the purpose of the language-exercises to secure correct and ..."

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