Meaning of target | Babel Free

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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 butt or mark to shoot at, as for practice, or to test the accuracy of a firearm, or the force of a projectile
3. A goal or objective
4. Completely accurate, precise, or valid: observations that were right on target.
5. purpose, object
6. A goal or objective.
7. An object of criticism or ridicule.
8. An object of criticism or ridicule
9. on target, accurate or correct; precisely right.
10. sight (of a weapon)
11. A person, place, or thing that is frequently attacked, criticized, or ridiculed.
12. A person, place, or thing that is frequently attacked, criticized, or ridiculed
13. An object, such as a padded disk with a marked surface, that is shot at to test accuracy in rifle or archery practice.
14. look!
15. A kind of shield:
16. A kind of small shield or buckler, used as a defensive weapon in war.
17. A kind of shield: 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
18. An object of criticism or verbal attack.
19. third-person singular present indicative
20. A shield resembling the Roman scutum, larger than the modern buckler.
    obsolete
21. One to be influenced or changed by an action or event: Children were the target of the new advertising campaign.
22. A bearing representing a buckler.
23. A desired goal: achieved our target for quarterly sales.
24. The pattern or arrangement of a series of hits made by a marksman on a butt or mark.
25. A railroad signal that indicates the position of a switch by its color, position, and shape.
26. The sliding crosspiece, or vane, on a leveling staff.
27. The sliding sight on a surveyor's leveling rod.
28. A conspicuous disk attached to a switch lever to show its position, or for use as a signal.
29. A small round shield.
30. the number of runs that the side batting last needs to score in the final innings in order to win
31. A usually metal part in an x-ray tube on which a beam of electrons is focused and from which x-rays are emitted.
32. The tenor of a metaphor.
33. The codomain of a function; the object at which a morphism points.
34. The translated version of a document, or the language into which translation occurs.
35. A person (or group of people) that a person or organization is trying to employ or to have as a customer, audience etc.
36. A thin cut; a slice; specifically, of lamb, a piece consisting of the neck and breast joints.
    UK, dated
37. A tassel or pendant.
    Scotland, obsolete
38. A shred; a tatter.
    Scotland, obsolete

Equivalents

Examples

“Take careful aim at the target.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“He made a good target.”

“Coordinate term: source”

“Do you charge by source or target?”

“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.”

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