Lexic.us

Definition of Target

1. Verb. Intend (something) to move towards a certain goal. "Direct your anger towards others, not towards yourself"

2. Noun. A reference point to shoot at. "His arrow hit the mark"

3. Noun. A person who is the aim of an attack (especially a victim of ridicule or exploitation) by some hostile person or influence. "The target of a manhunt"

4. Noun. The location of the target that is to be hit.

5. Noun. Sports equipment consisting of an object set up for a marksman or archer to aim at.

6. Noun. The goal intended to be attained (and which is believed to be attainable). "The sole object of her trip was to see her children"

Definition of Target

1. n. A kind of small shield or buckler, used as a defensive weapon in war.

2. n. A thin cut; a slice; specif., of lamb, a piece consisting of the neck and breast joints.

Definition of Target

1. Noun. A butt or mark to shoot at, as for practice, or to test the accuracy of a firearm, or the force of a projectile. ¹

2. Noun. A goal or objective. ¹

3. Noun. A kind of small shield or buckler, used as a defensive weapon in war. ¹

4. Noun. (obsolete) A shield resembling the Roman scutum. In modern usage, a smaller variety of shield is usually implied by this term. ¹

5. Noun. (sports) The pattern or arrangement of a series of hits made by a marksman on a butt or mark. ¹

6. Noun. (surveying) The sliding crosspiece, or vane, on a leveling staff. ¹

7. Noun. (rail transport) A conspicuous disk attached to a switch lever to show its position, or for use as a signal. ¹

8. Noun. (cricket) the number of runs that the side batting last needs to score in the final innings in order to win ¹

9. Noun. (linguistics) The tenor of a metaphor. ¹

10. Noun. (translation studies) The translated version of a document, or the language into which translation occurs. ¹

11. Noun. A person (or group of people) that a person or organization is trying to employ or to have as a customer, audience etc. ¹

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

13. Verb. (transitive figuratively) To aim for as an audience or demographic. ¹

14. Verb. (transitive computing) To produce code suitable for. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Target

1. to make a goal of [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Medical Definition of Target

1. 1. An object fixed as goal or point of examination. 2. In the ophthalmometer, the mire. Synonym: target organ. 4. Anode of an X-ray tube. See: X-ray. Origin: It. Targhetta, a small shield (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Target

tardyon tardyonic tardyons tare tared tarenflurbil tarente tarentism tarentula tarentulas

tares taret organ targe targed targes target (current term) target-hunting target acquisition system target area target audience

target behaviour target cell target cell anaemia target company target domain target gland target group target language target languages target lesions of liver/spleen

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