n.
1.the act of expressing earnest opposition or protest
2.the speech act of objecting
3.the act of protesting
4.(law) a procedure whereby a party to a suit says that a particular line of questioning or a particular witness or a piece of evidence or other matter is improper and should not be continued and asks the court to rule on its impropriety or illegality
Idiom of the Day
teach one's grandmother to suck eggs
to try to tell someone with more knowledge than yourself how to do something
Showing the computer expert how to fix the computer problem was like teaching my grandmother to suck eggs.