English

Etymology

Diminutive of targe.

Pronunciation

IPA: /tɑ:gɪt/

• An audio transcript can be found at en-us-target.ogg

Noun

Image:Archery target.jpg|thumb|right|A target used for [[archery.]]

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. : Take careful aim at the target.
3. A goal or objective.
4. : They have a target to finish the project by November.
5. A kind of small shield or buckler, used as a defensive weapon in war.
6. * 1598, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part I, Act II, Scene IV, line 200,
7. *: 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.
8. A shield resembling the Roman scutum. In modern usage, a smaller variety of shield is usually implied by this term.
9. * 1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 22,
10. *: 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 it's bottom rounded off; it was generally convex, being curved in it's breadth.
11. The pattern or arrangement of a series of hits made by a marksman on a butt or mark.
12. : He made a good target.
13. The sliding crosspiece, or vane, on a leveling staff.
14. A conspicuous disk attached to a switch lever to show its position, or for use as a signal.
15. the number of runs that the side batting last needs to score in the final innings in order to win
16. The tenor of a metaphor.

Related terms

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Translations

• Finnish:

• Croatian: {{t-|hr|meta|f}}
• Czech: {{t-|cs|terč|m}}
• Danish: mål, skydeskive
• Finnish: ,
• French: {{t+|fr|cible|f}}

• Hebrew: {{t-|he|מטרה|tr=matara|sc=Hebr}}
• Kurdish: {{t+|ku|نیشان|sc=KUchar}}
• Serbian: {{t-|sr|meta|f}}
• Slovenian: tarča

• : blanco

Verb

1. To aim something (especially a weapon) at a target.

Translations

• Danish: sigte efter, rette mod
• Finnish:

• Kurdish:
• Persian: (hadaf)

See also

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