target
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɑːɡɪt/
ipa: /ˈtɑɹɡɪt/
ipa: [ˈtʰɑɹɡɪt̚]
ipa: /ˈtɐːɡɪt/
ipa: /ˈtɐːɡət/
note: Indic
ipa: /ʈɑ(r).ɡɛʈ/
note: proscribed, spelling pronunciation
ipa: /-dʒɛʈ/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)ɡɪt
Forms: form: targets
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 tarjeta (“card”).
Senses: examples: text: Take careful aim at the target.
glosses: A butt or mark to shoot at, as for practice, or to test the accuracy of a firearm, or the force of a projectile.
examples: text: Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers.[…]Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster. Clever financial ploys are what have made billionaires of the industry’s veterans. “Operational improvement” in a portfolio company has often meant little more than promising colossal bonuses to sitting chief executives if they meet ambitious growth targets. That model is still prevalent today.
ref: 2013 June 22, “Engineers of a different kind”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 70:
text: They have a target to finish the project by November.
glosses: A goal or objective.
glosses: An object of criticism or ridicule.
glosses: A person, place, or thing that is frequently attacked, criticized, or ridiculed.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 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:
glosses: A kind of shield:
A kind of small shield or buckler, used as a defensive weapon in war.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 22:
glosses: A kind of shield:
A shield resembling the Roman scutum, larger than the modern buckler.
examples: text: The fourth field is also party per pale, and for the dutchy of Genevois, contains chequered Or and azure: The sinister for the dutchy of Montserat, a target, gules. The point Or is a black eagle of the county of Maurienne.
ref: 1762, Anton Friedrich Büsching, A New System of Geography: In which is Given, a General Account of the Situation and Limits, the Manners, History, and Constitution, of the Several Kingdoms and States of the Known World, page 12:
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: A kind of shield:
A bearing representing a buckler.
examples: text: He made a good target.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The pattern or arrangement of a series of hits made by a marksman on a butt or mark.
topics: geography
natural-sciences
surveying
glosses: The sliding crosspiece, or vane, on a leveling staff.
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A conspicuous disk attached to a switch lever to show its position, or for use as a signal.
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: the number of runs that the side batting last needs to score in the final innings in order to win
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The tenor of a metaphor.
examples: Coordinate term: source
topics: category-theory
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The codomain of a function; the object at which a morphism points.
examples: text: Do you charge by source or target?
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
translation-studies
glosses: The translated version of a document, or the language into which translation occurs.
examples: text: Gary Cahill, a target for Arsenal and Tottenham before the transfer window closed, put England ahead early on and Rooney was on target twice before the interval as the early hostility of the Bulgarian supporters was swiftly subdued.
ref: 2011 September 2, Phil McNulty, “Bulgaria 0-3 England”, in BBC:
glosses: A person (or group of people) that a person or organization is trying to employ or to have as a customer, audience etc.
glosses: A thin cut; a slice; specifically, of lamb, a piece consisting of the neck and breast joints.
synonyms: targe
glosses: A tassel or pendant.
glosses: A shred; a tatter.
Synonyms: sense: translated version
word: target language
Coordinate terms: topics: source
word: translated version
Meronyms: sense: sport
word: bull
sense: sport
word: bullseye
sense: sport
word: inner
sense: sport
word: magpie
sense: sport
word: outer
Derived terms: antitarget
apotarget
autotarget
biotarget
digital target
digitized target
drop target
easy target
geotarget
high-value target
immunotarget
microtarget
mistarget
moving target
multitarget
nontarget
non-target
non-target-like
off target
off-target
oncotarget
on target
phosphotarget
point target
pretarget
retarget
running target
shot on target
soft target
stretch target
subtarget
target audience
target cell
target control
target domain
targeteer
targeter
target for tonight
target girl
target group
targeting
targetless
target letter
targetlike
target-like
target man
target market
target marketing
target of opportunity
targetoid
targetome
target practice
target range
target rating point
target text
target timing
treat-to-target