target

Meanings

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.
• A goal or objective.
• A kind of small shield or buckler, used as a defensive weapon in war.
• A shield resembling the Roman scutum, larger than the modern buckler.
• A bearing representing a buckler.
• The pattern or arrangement of a series of hits made by a marksman on a butt or mark.
• The sliding crosspiece, or vane, on a leveling staff.
• A conspicuous disk attached to a switch lever to show its position, or for use as a signal.
• the number of runs that the side batting last needs to score in the final innings in order to win
• The tenor of a metaphor.
• The translated version of a document, or the language into which translation occurs.
• A person (or group of people) that a person or organization is trying to employ or to have as a customer, audience etc.
• A thin cut; a slice; specifically, of lamb, a piece consisting of the neck and breast joints.
• A tassel or pendant.
• A shred; a tatter.

Verb

• To aim something, especially a weapon, at (a target).
• To aim for as an audience or demographic.
• To produce code suitable for.

Related

Similar words

• target language

Origin

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