Objective vs. Strategy

Objectiveadjective

Of or relating to a material object, actual existence or reality.

Strategynoun

The science and art of military command as applied to the overall planning and conduct of warfare.

Objectiveadjective

Not influenced by the emotions or prejudices.

Strategynoun

A plan of action intended to accomplish a specific goal.

Objectiveadjective

Based on observed facts.

Strategynoun

The use of advance planning to succeed in politics or business.

Objectiveadjective

(grammar) Of, or relating to a noun or pronoun used as the object of a verb.

Strategynoun

The science of military command, or the science of projecting campaigns and directing great military movements; generalship.

Objectiveadjective

Of, or relating to verbal conjugation that indicates the object (patient) of an action. In linguistic descriptions of Tundra Nenets, among others.

Strategynoun

The use of stratagem or artifice.

Objectivenoun

A material object that physically exists.

Strategynoun

an elaborate and systematic plan of action

Objectivenoun

A goal that is striven for.

Strategynoun

the branch of military science dealing with military command and the planning and conduct of a war

Objectivenoun

(grammar) The objective case.

Strategy

Strategy (from Greek στρατηγία stratēgia, ) is a general plan to achieve one or more long-term or overall goals under conditions of uncertainty. In the sense of the , which included several subsets of skills including military tactics, siegecraft, logistics etc., the term came into use in the 6th century C.E. in Eastern Roman terminology, and was translated into Western vernacular languages only in the 18th century.

‘art of troop leader; office of general, command, generalship’; ‘art of the general’;

Objectivenoun

(grammar) a noun or pronoun in the objective case.

Objectivenoun

The lens or lenses of a camera, microscope, or other optical device closest to the object being examined.

Objectiveadjective

Of or pertaining to an object.

Objectiveadjective

Of or pertaining to an object; contained in, or having the nature or position of, an object; outward; external; extrinsic; - an epithet applied to whatever is exterior to the mind, or which is simply an object of thought or feeling, as opposed to being related to thoughts of feelings, and opposed to subjective.

‘In the Middle Ages, subject meant substance, and has this sense in Descartes and Spinoza: sometimes, also, in Reid. Subjective is used by William of Occam to denote that which exists independent of mind; objective, what is formed by the mind. This shows what is meant by realitas objectiva in Descartes. Kant and Fichte have inverted the meanings. Subject, with them, is the mind which knows; object, that which is known; subjective, the varying conditions of the knowing mind; objective, that which is in the constant nature of the thing known.’; ‘Objective has come to mean that which has independent existence or authority, apart from our experience or thought. Thus, moral law is said to have objective authority, that is, authority belonging to itself, and not drawn from anything in our nature.’;

Objectiveadjective

Unbiased; unprejudiced; fair; uninfluenced by personal feelings or personal interests; considering only the facts of a situation unrelated to the observer; - of judgments, opinions, evaluations, conclusions, reasoning processes.

‘Objective means that which belongs to, or proceeds from, the object known, and not from the subject knowing, and thus denotes what is real, in opposition to that which is ideal - what exists in nature, in contrast to what exists merely in the thought of the individual.’;

Objectiveadjective

Pertaining to, or designating, the case which follows a transitive verb or a preposition, being that case in which the direct object of the verb is placed. See Accusative, n.

‘My troublous dream [on] this night doth make me sad.’; ‘To write of victories [in or for] next year.’; ‘In the philosophy of mind, subjective denotes what is to be referred to the thinking subject, the ego; objective what belongs to the object of thought, the non-ego.’;

Objectivenoun

The objective case.

Objectivenoun

An object glass; called also objective lens. See under Object, n.

Objectivenoun

Same as Objective point, under Objective, a.

Objectivenoun

the goal intended to be attained (and which is believed to be attainable);

‘the sole object of her trip was to see her children’;

Objectivenoun

the lens or system of lenses nearest the object being viewed

Objectiveadjective

undistorted by emotion or personal bias; based on observable phenomena;

‘an objective appraisal’; ‘objective evidence’;

Objectiveadjective

serving as or indicating the object of a verb or of certain prepositions and used for certain other purposes;

‘objective case’; ‘accusative endings’;

Objectiveadjective

emphasizing or expressing things as perceived without distortion of personal feelings or interpretation;

‘objective art’;

Objectiveadjective

belonging to immediate experience of actual things or events;

‘concrete benefits’; ‘a concrete example’; ‘there is no objective evidence of anything of the kind’;