target
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
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transport
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”).
Inflected forms:
form: targets
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: targets
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: targeting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: targetting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
rare
form: targeted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: targeted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: targetted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
rare
form: targetted
pos: verb
tags: past
rare
Senses:
gloss: A butt or mark to shoot at, as for practice, or to test the accuracy of a firearm, or the force of a projectile.
pos: noun
examples: Take careful aim at the target.
gloss: A goal or objective.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
They have a target to finish the project by November.
gloss: An object of criticism or ridicule.
pos: noun
gloss: A person, place, or thing that is frequently attacked, criticized, or ridiculed.
pos: noun
gloss: A kind of shield:
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: A kind of shield:
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: 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.
gloss: A kind of shield:
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: The pattern or arrangement of a series of hits made by a marksman on a butt or mark.
pos: noun
examples: He made a good target.
gloss: The sliding crosspiece, or vane, on a leveling staff.
pos: noun
gloss: A conspicuous disk attached to a switch lever to show its position, or for use as a signal.
pos: noun
gloss: the number of runs that the side batting last needs to score in the final innings in order to win
pos: noun
gloss: The tenor of a metaphor.
pos: noun
gloss: The codomain of a function; the object at which a morphism points.
pos: noun
examples: Coordinate term: source
gloss: The translated version of a document, or the language into which translation occurs.
pos: noun
examples: Do you charge by source or target?
gloss: A person (or group of people) that a person or organization is trying to employ or to have as a customer, audience etc.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: A thin cut; a slice; specifically, of lamb, a piece consisting of the neck and breast joints.
pos: noun
tags: UK
dated
gloss: A tassel or pendant.
pos: noun
tags: Scotland
obsolete
gloss: A shred; a tatter.
pos: noun
tags: Scotland
obsolete
gloss: A system or platform for which software is developed.
pos: noun
gloss: To aim something, especially a weapon, at (a target).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To aim for as an audience or demographic.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
examples: The advertising campaign targeted older women.
gloss: To produce code suitable for.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: This cross-platform compiler can target any of several processors.
Derived words: antitarget
apotarget
autotarget
biotarget
digital target
digitized target
drop target
easy target
geotarget
high-value target
hypertarget
immunotarget
microtarget
mistarget
moving target
multitarget
non-target
nontarget
non-target-like
off target
off-target
oncotarget
on target
phosphotarget
point target
pretarget
retarget
running target
shot on target
soft target
spoke 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
targetability
targetable
targetingly
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