target
Etymology
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Etymology
From Middle French targette, targuete, diminutive of targe ("light shield"), from Old French -, from Frankish *targa, akin to Old Norse targa (whence also Old English targe, targa ("shield")) from Proto-Germanic *targǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *derǵʰ-.
Pronunciation Nountarget (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.
- An object of criticism or ridicule.
- A person, place, or thing that is frequently attacked, criticized, or ridiculed.
- A kind of shield:
- A kind of small shield or buckler, used as a defensive weapon in war.
- c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC ↗, [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.
- (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.
- (heraldry) A bearing representing a buckler.
- A kind of small shield or buckler, used as a defensive weapon in war.
- (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.
- (mathematics, category theory) The codomain of a function; the object at which a morphism points.
- Coordinate term: source
- (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.
- Synonyms: targe
- (Scotland, obsolete) A shred; a tatter.
- See also Thesaurus:goal
- (translated version) target language
- French: cible
- German: Zielscheibe, Schießscheibe, Ziel
- Italian: bersaglio
- Portuguese: alvo
- Russian: мише́нь
- Spanish: blanco, diana, objetivo (militia), hito
- French: cible, objectif, but
- German: Ziel
- Italian: obiettivo
- Portuguese: objetivo
- Russian: цель
- Spanish: objetivo, destinatario
- Russian: мише́нь
target (targets, present participle targeting; simple 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.
- French: cibler, viser
- German: zielen
- Portuguese: mirar
- Russian: це́литься
- Spanish: encañonar, enfocar, dirigir, orientar, destinar
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