Pronunciation Noun
target (plural targets)
- A butt or mark to shoot at, as for practice, or to test the accuracy of a firearm, or the force of a projectile.
- Take careful aim at the target.
- A goal or objective.
- They have a target to finish the project by November.
- A kind of small shield or buckler, used as a defensive weapon in war.
- 1598, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part I, Act II, Scene IV, line 200,
- These four came all afront, and mainly thrust at me. I made me no more ado but took all their seven points in my target, thus.
- 1598, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part I, Act II, Scene IV, line 200,
- (obsolete) A shield resembling the Roman scutum, larger than the modern buckler.
- 1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 22,
- The target or buckler was carried by the heavy armed foot, it answered to the scutum of the Romans; its form was sometimes that of a rectangular parallelogram, but more commonly had its bottom rounded off; it was generally convex, being curved in its breadth.
- 1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 22,
- (heraldry) A bearing representing a buckler.
- (sports) The pattern or arrangement of a series of hits made by a marksman on a butt or mark.
- He made a good target.
- (surveying) The sliding crosspiece, or vane, on a leveling staff.
- (rail transport) A conspicuous disk attached to a switch lever to show its position, or for use as a signal.
- (cricket) the number of runs that the side batting last needs to score in the final innings in order to win
- (linguistics) The tenor of a metaphor.
- (translation studies) The translated version of a document, or the language into which translation occurs.
- Do you charge by source or target?
- A person (or group of people) that a person or organization is trying to employ or to have as a customer, audience etc.
- (UK, dated) A thin cut; a slice; specifically, of lamb, a piece consisting of the neck and breast joints.
- (Scotland, obsolete) A tassel or pendant.
- (Scotland, obsolete) A shred; a tatter.
- See also Thesaurus:goal
- (translated version) target language
- French: cible
- German: Zielscheibe
- Italian: bersaglio
- Portuguese: alvo
- Russian: мише́нь
- Spanish: blanco
- French: cible, objectif
- German: Ziel
- Italian: obiettivo
- Portuguese: objetivo
- Russian: цель
- Spanish: objetivo
- Russian: мише́нь
target (targets, present participle targeting; past and past participle targeted)
- (transitive) To aim something, especially a weapon, at (a target).
- (transitive, figuratively) To aim for as an audience or demographic.
- The advertising campaign targeted older women.
- (transitive, computing) To produce code suitable for.
- This cross-platform compiler can target any of several processors.
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