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target

Pronunciation: /ˈtɑː.ɡɪt/

The English word “target” has 20 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. A butt or mark to shoot at, as for practice, or to test the accuracy of a firearm, or the force of a projectile.
  2. A goal or objective.
  3. An object of criticism or ridicule.
  4. A person, place, or thing that is frequently attacked, criticized, or ridiculed.
  5. A kind of small shield or buckler, used as a defensive weapon in war.
  6. A shield resembling the Roman scutum, larger than the modern buckler.
  7. A bearing representing a buckler.
  8. The pattern or arrangement of a series of hits made by a marksman on a butt or mark.
  9. The sliding crosspiece, or vane, on a leveling staff.
  10. A conspicuous disk attached to a switch lever to show its position, or for use as a signal.
  11. the number of runs that the side batting last needs to score in the final innings in order to win
  12. The tenor of a metaphor.
  13. The codomain of a function; the object at which a morphism points.
  14. The translated version of a document, or the language into which translation occurs.
  15. A person (or group of people) that a person or organization is trying to employ or to have as a customer, audience etc.
  16. A thin cut; a slice; specifically, of lamb, a piece consisting of the neck and breast joints.
  17. A tassel or pendant.
  18. A shred; a tatter.
  19. A system or platform for which software is developed.

verb

  1. To aim something, especially a weapon, at (a target).

Etymology

From Middle French targette, targuete, diminutive of targe (“light shield”), from Old French, from Frankish *targa (“buckler”), akin to Old Norse targa (“small round shield”) (whence also Old English targe, targa (“shield”)) from Proto-Germanic *targǭ (“edge”), from Proto-Indo-European *derǵʰ- (“fenced lot”). Akin to Old High German zarga (“side wall, rim”) (German Zarge (“frame”)), Spanish…

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