Attack and Object

attack

Military) an offensive against an enemy (using weapons. ()
- usage: "the attack began at dawn"
- synonyms: onslaught, onset, onrush
An offensive move in a sport or game.
- usage: "they won the game with a 10-hit attack in the 9th inning"
Intense adverse criticism.
- usage: "Clinton directed his fire at the Republican Party"; "the government has come under attack"; "don't give me any flak"
- synonyms: fire, flak, flack, blast
Ideas or actions intended to deal with a problem or situation.
- usage: "his approach to every problem is to draw up a list of pros and cons"; "an attack on inflation"; "his plan of attack was misguided"
- synonyms: approach, plan of attack
The act of attacking.
- usage: "attacks on women increased last year"; "they made an attempt on his life"
- synonyms: attempt
A decisive manner of beginning a musical tone or phrase.
- synonyms: tone-beginning
A sudden occurrence of an uncontrollable condition.
- usage: "an attack of diarrhea"
The onset of a corrosive or destructive process (as by a chemical agent. )
- usage: "the film was sensitive to attack by acids"; "open to attack by the elements"
Strong criticism.
- usage: "he published an unexpected attack on my work"

Launch an attack or assault on; begin hostilities or start warfare with.
- usage: "Hitler attacked Poland on September 1, 1939 and started World War II"; "Serbian forces assailed Bosnian towns all week"
- synonyms: assail
Attack in speech or writing.
- usage: "The editors of the left-leaning paper attacked the new House Speaker"
- synonyms: round, assail, lash out, snipe, assault
Take the initiative and go on the offensive.
- usage: "The Serbs attacked the village at night"; "The visiting team started to attack"
- synonyms: aggress
Attack someone physically or emotionally.
- usage: "The mugger assaulted the woman"; "Nightmares assailed him regularly"
- synonyms: assail, assault, set on
Set to work upon; turn one's energies vigorously to a task.
- usage: "I attacked the problem as soon as I got out of bed"
Begin to injure.
- usage: "The cancer cells are attacking his liver"; "Rust is attacking the metal"

(n.) A setting to work upon some task, etc.
(v.t.) To begin to affect; to begin to act upon, injuriously or destructively; to begin to decompose or waste.
(n.) An assault upon one's feelings or reputation with unfriendly or bitter words.
(v.t.) To assail with unfriendly speech or writing; to begin a controversy with; to attempt to overthrow or bring into disrepute, by criticism or satire; to censure; as, to attack a man or his opinions, in a pamphlet.
(v.t.) To fall upon with force; to assail, as with force and arms; to assault.
(v.t.) To set to work upon, as upon a task or problem or some object of labor or investigation.
(n.) The beginning of corrosive, decomposing or destructive action, by a chemical agent.
(n.) An access of disease; a fit of sickness.
(n.) The act of attacking or falling on with force or violence; an onset; an assault; -- opposed to defense.
(v.i.) To make an onset or attack.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

object

A tangible and visible entity; an entity that can cast a shadow.
- usage: "it was full of rackets, balls and other objects"
- synonyms: physical object
The goal intended to be attained (and which is believed to be attainable. )
- usage: "the sole object of her trip was to see her children"
- synonyms: aim, objective, target
Grammar) a constituent that is acted upon. (
- usage: "the object of the verb"
The focus of cognitions or feelings.
- usage: "objects of thought"; "the object of my affection"
Computing) a discrete item that provides a description of virtually anything known to a computer. (
- usage: "in object-oriented programming, objects include data and define its status, its methods of operation and how it interacts with other objects"

Express or raise an objection or protest or criticism or express dissent.
- usage: "She never objected to the amount of work her boss charged her with"; "When asked to drive the truck, she objected that she did not have a driver's license"
Be averse to or express disapproval of.
- usage: "My wife objects to modern furniture"

(v.t.) Sight; show; appearance; aspect.
(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.) To set before or against; to bring into opposition; to oppose.
(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.
(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.) 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.i.) To make opposition in words or argument; -- usually followed by to.
(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.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary