May be its simple post.But its big enough to differentiate the object and variable in javascript.
var someVariable = "Some text";
var someOtherVariable = ["Name1","Name2","Name"];
The above lines are just variable declaration with keyword "var".
In javascript,Object Instantiation also can be done in the same fashion but with curly open and closed braces {}.
Example:
var mYObject = {
Name:"Murugesa Pandian";
WhoIsHe:function() { return "Working as Programmer";}
}
Now mYObject is an Object which holds the property or attribute or you may be call "Member" ,Name and method(function) WhoIsHe.
Call it as
document.write(mYObject.Name);
document.write(myObject.WhoIsHe());