What is meant by an object when you talk about databases?

I was reading Oracle Database 11g The Complete Reference and came across the following line.

You can create synonyms for the object names, view objects in different databases (across database links), and restrict access to the objects.

The chapter is supposed to familiarize the reader with terminology. I didn't understand what object mean开发者_开发技巧t here.

Objects are the "things" that make up your database schema, like tables, views, stored procedures, functions and suchlike.

There's a more comprehensive list in Oracle's documentation.