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target

[tahr-git]

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noun

an object, usually marked with concentric circles, to be aimed at in shooting practice or contests.

any object used for this purpose.

anything fired at.

a goal to be reached.

an object of abuse, scorn, derision, etc.; butt.

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Fencing. the portion of a fencer's body where a touch can be scored.

a disk-shaped signal, as at a railroad switch, indicating the position of a switch.

Surveying.

the sliding sight on a leveling rod.

any marker on which sights are taken.

a small shield, usually round, carried by a foot soldier; buckler.

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adjective

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that is or may be a target or goal: The target group consisted of college graduates who earned more than $50,000 a year.

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verb (used with object)

11.

to use, set up, or designate as a target or goal.

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to direct toward a target: The new warheads can be targeted with great precision.

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to make a target of (an object, person, city, etc.) for attack or bombardment.

Verb phrase

14.

target (in) on, to establish or use as a target or goal: The club is targeting on September for the move to larger quarters.

Idiom

15.

on target,

properly aimed or on the right course toward a target.

accurate, correct, or valid: Their description of the event was on target.

filling or meeting a requirement or expectations: The amount of supplies we took was right on target.

Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English (noun) < Middle French targuete, variant of targete small shield. See targe, -et

Related forms

tar·get·a·ble, adjective

tar·get·less, adjective

un·tar·get·a·ble, adjective

un·tar·get·ed, adjective

Synonyms
4. aim, end, purpose.

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Example Sentences

Target has entered the battle to bring down the price of some of the holiday season's biggest anticipated hardcover books.

When you go to conferences as an acquisitions editor you are a target.

If you target a destination, you don't run into that problem.

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Target has entered the battle to bring down the price of some of the holiday season's biggest anticipated hardcover books.

When you go to conferences as an acquisitions editor you are a target.

If you target a destination, you don't run into that problem.

Target archery means you aim the arrow at a specific targetIn archery a bulls eye is gold.

French archers used the clay horse for target practice.

We offer a multiplatform advertising approach to help you best reach your target market.

Sci-fi fans might only want one story from an anthology, or a historical researcher might target certain subjects.

Nor did she quote a single student or a single resident of the target neighborhood she visited.

Hackers hoping to target as many companies as possible would have focused on more popular systems.

Experience the attack--moment by moment, target by target.

UK researchers find that taste buds respond differently to depression therapies that target serotonin and noradrenaline.

The extensive engine collection ranges from early aircraft to rockets and target drone.

Imagine a day when a submarine could blast a target to smithereens using nothing more than acoustic energy.

Ask them how they get info on the target population.

If central banks had a higher target for inflation, that would allow for bigger cuts in real interest rates in a recession.

Research suggests that if hunting is going to take place, hunters should target only.

Patchwork receptors target immune cells against cancer.

Every city is a potential battleground, every citizen a target.

They aim ads at them, target jingles at them, even go so far as to build entire cars for them.

Yes, the modern languages will continue to be the preferred first target for downsizers and retrenchers.

In that regard, an increase in the target inflation rate would tend to undermine the rationale for central bank independence.

First, the military can't intentionally target civilians.

Finding explains failure of drugs that target host vasculature.

His club has replaced the feather with a target painted on the lane.

As you get further away from the target you need to account for the fall of the arrow in flight as well as the cross wind.

Students fighting against the use of sweatshop labor to manufacture apparel and other college-licensed products have a new target.

Those discs that identified a target exploded dozens of metres up.

Birds of paradise are so attractive that their appearance once made them the target of skin hunters, who decimated some species.

Researchers pinpoint a crucial crossroads for brain communication and a target for a radical depression treatment.

Foie gras is an easy target for criticism, but if you're going to ban it you might as well ban all farm-raised meat.

In any case, you need to target the programs that include your research interests.

Two global-positioning-system devices guide the researchers to their target.

Insects are their main prey, but they also target bigger.

Entrepreneurs target the jatropha plant as the next big biofuel.

He continues to grow as expected and is right on target for his age in growth and health.

It's worth noting that humanities research is often the unacknowledged target of these sorts of debates.

For spycatchers, these are ideal bugging and tracking devices, which the target kindly keeps powered up.

First, target your portfolio to the audience or the publisher of your pictures.

Doctors have long sought a way to precisely target tumors with their chemical therapies.

Washington-When you've got a target on your back, you can run and hide-or you can commission a study.

Rate cuts have sometimes been implemented when inflation was above the target range.

But it has also proved a breeding ground for fraud and a target of censorship.

The brain becomes a target in stem cell clinical trials.

The trick was to target their pain areas, and not the whole body or brain.

First, there is a large carrier protein that forms a platform for the target.

Students can use the questions below to help them target their research.

It is also the first drug ever developed specifically to target the debilitating affliction.

If you overthrow and underthrow, you should be able to find the target in the middle.

The contractually agreed performance target was to beat the benchmark by one percentage point.

Because the members took target practice every day, they were excellent marksmen.

Eventually these markers could be used to target cells for cancer prevention and therapy early.

If you use a refillable water bottle, put rubber bands around the base to mark your your target number of fill-ups.

The shirts and shoes they make for athletes are the target of perhaps the biggest-ever crusade against sweatshops.

Humans also target the turtles for food and shell products.

Perhaps they could also use this to find a target unique to all strains of staph and then engineer a phage to exploit it.

Furthermore, erosion of pension benefits is an easy and fat target for elected officials.

Chinese officials have recently had a pang of food-safety conscience, and a big foreign firm has offered an easy target.

The burial complex is a frequent target for modern-day grave robbers and was thought to have been looted of its riches.

To date, the program has intercepted target missiles in five of eight heavily scripted tests.

They start to target victims who are more famous, more sympathetic, or simply more numerous.

Newton's reflecting telescope got rid of the halo of light surrounding target objects that had plagued lens-based telescopes.

Instead of boosting host immunity, they would target the virus itself by silencing its genes.

If both target molecules attach to it, they trigger the device to change shape.

Scientists also hope to target drugs to particular pathologies as they pop up in the brain.

Amid bad weather and turbulence in the dark of night, the plane overshot its target and got lost.

The enzyme has recently been found in many human tumors and is being eyed as a new target for cancer therapy.

Over millions of years cone snails have evolved toxins that target specific species in specific environments.

After a six-month voyage, it landed precisely on target and began performing nearly flawlessly.

Poachers target adults, often leaving behind calves that are too young to survive on their own, the group added.

However, neuroscientists must first find ways to target only good memories or only the bad.

These three moves target the calf and the front of the hip.

And all of that imagery is never exactly replicated in the target language.

As result, translators often compromise to a degree the target language allows them.

Researchers identified a genetic mutation causing seedlessness in different plants, and it could be a target to make new.

The question is how to arrange the movements so that all vehicles traverse their target sides in as short a time as possible.

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Collins

World English Dictionary

target (ˈtɑːɡɪt)

—n
1.	a. an object or area at which an archer or marksman aims, usually a round flat surface marked with concentric rings
	b. (as modifier): target practice
2.	a. any point or area aimed at; the object of an attack or a takeover bid
	b. (as modifier): target area; target company
3.	a fixed goal or objective: the target for the appeal is £10 000
4.	a person or thing at which an action or remark is directed or the object of a person's feelings: a target for the teacher's sarcasm
5.	a joint of lamb consisting of the breast and neck
6.	surveying a marker on which sights are taken, such as the sliding marker on a levelling staff
7.	(formerly) a small round shield
8.	physics, electronics
	a. a substance, object, or system subjected to bombardment by electrons or other particles, or to irradiation
	b. an electrode in a television camera tube whose surface, on which image information is stored, is scanned by the electron beam
9.	electronics an object to be detected by the reflection of a radar or sonar signal, etc
10.	on target on the correct course to meet a target or objective

—vb , -gets, -geting, -geted
11.	to make a target of
12.	to direct or aim: to target benefits at those most in need

[C14: from Old French targette a little shield, from Old French targe]

'targetless

—*adj*

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Word Origin & History

target

c.1400, "shield," dim. of late O.E. targe, from O.Fr. targe "light shield," from Frank. *targa "shield" (cf. O.H.G. zarga "edging, border," Ger. zarge, O.E. targe, O.N. targa "shield"), from P.Gmc. *targo "border, edge." Meaning "object to be aimed at in shooting" first recorded 1757, originally in archery.

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Verb meaning "to use as a target" is attested from 1837.

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American Heritage

Medical Dictionary

target tar·get (tär'gĭt)
n.

One to be influenced or changed by an action or event.
A desired goal.
A usually metal part in an x-ray tube on which a beam of electrons is focused and from which x-rays are emitted.
A target organ.

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Computing Dictionary

target definition

SCSI target

Easton

Bible Dictionary

Target definition

(1 Sam. 17:6, A.V., after the LXX. and Vulg.), a kind of small shield. The margin has "gorget," a piece of armour for the throat. The Revised Version more correctly renders the Hebrew word (kidon) by "javelin." The same Hebrew word is used in Josh. 8:18 (A.V., "spear;" R.V., "javelin"); Job 39:23 (A.V., "shield;" R.V., "javelin"); 41:29 (A.V., "spear;" R.V., "javelin").

Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
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American Heritage

Idioms & Phrases

target

see on target; sitting duck (target).

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