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target
English
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 *targ? (“edge”), from Proto-Indo-European *der??- (“fenced lot”). Akin to Old High German zarga (“side wall, rim”) (German Zarge (“frame”)), Spanish tarjeta (“card”).
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /?t????t/, [?t?????t?]
- (UK) IPA(key): /t????t/
Noun
target (plural targets)
- 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.
- 1598, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part I, Act II, Scene IV, line 200,
- 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.
- 1598, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part I, Act II, Scene IV, line 200,
- (obsolete) A shield resembling the Roman scutum, larger than the modern buckler.
- 1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 22,
- 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.
- 1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 22,
- (heraldry) A bearing representing a buckler.
- (sports) The pattern or arrangement of a series of hits made by a marksman on a butt or mark.
- (surveying) The sliding crosspiece, or vane, on a leveling staff.
- (rail transport) A conspicuous disk attached to a switch lever to show its position, or for use as a signal.
- (cricket) the number of runs that the side batting last needs to score in the final innings in order to win
- (linguistics) The tenor of a metaphor.
- (translation studies) 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.
- (Britain, dated) A thin cut; a slice; specifically, of lamb, a piece consisting of the neck and breast joints.
- (Scotland, obsolete) A tassel or pendant.
- (Scotland, obsolete) A shred; a tatter.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:goal
- (translated version): target language
Coordinate terms
- (translated version): source
Meronyms
- (sport): bull/bullseye, inner, magpie, outer
Derived terms
- targeteer
- targeter
- targeting
Descendants
- ? Japanese: ????? (t?getto)
Translations
Verb
target (third-person singular simple present targets, present participle targeting or targetting, simple past and past participle targeted or targetted)
- (transitive) To aim something, especially a weapon, at (a target).
- (transitive, figuratively) To aim for as an audience or demographic.
- The advertising campaign targeted older women.
- (transitive, computing) To produce code suitable for.
- This cross-platform compiler can target any of several processors.
Translations
See also
- Target on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- Gretta, gatter
Cebuano
Etymology
From English target.
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: tar?get
Noun
target
- 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
- (sports) the pattern or arrangement of a series of hits made by a marksman on a butt or mark
- a shot of tuba
Verb
target
- to aim something, especially a weapon, at (a target)
- to hurl something at a target
- to impale with a projectile weapon
Quotations
For quotations using this term, see Citations:target.
Dutch
Pronunciation
Noun
target n (plural targets, diminutive targetje n)
- target
Spanish
Etymology
From English target.
Noun
target m (plural targets)
- target (goal, objective)
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basis
English
Etymology
From Latin basis, from Ancient Greek ????? (básis), from Proto-Indo-European *g?émtis, derived from Proto-Indo-European *g?em- (English come). Doublet of base.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: b??s?s, IPA(key): /?be?s?s/,
- Rhymes: -e?s?s
Noun
basis (plural bases or (rare) baseis or (nonstandard) basises)
- A physical base or foundation.
- 1695, William Congreve, To the King, on the taking of Namur, 1810, Samuel Johnson, Alexander Chalmers (biographies), The Works of the English Poets from Chaucer to Cowper, Volume 10, page 271,
- Beholding rocks from their firm basis rent;
Mountain on mountain thrown,
With threatening hurl, that shook th' aerial firmament!
- Beholding rocks from their firm basis rent;
- 1695, William Congreve, To the King, on the taking of Namur, 1810, Samuel Johnson, Alexander Chalmers (biographies), The Works of the English Poets from Chaucer to Cowper, Volume 10, page 271,
- A starting point, base or foundation for an argument or hypothesis.
- 2019, VOA Learning English (public domain)
- I wonder if the South Korean side has any basis that its smog is from China.
- 2019, VOA Learning English (public domain)
- An underlying condition or circumstance.
- 2013, Daniel Taylor, Danny Welbeck leads England's rout of Moldova but hit by Ukraine ban (in The Guardian, 6 September 2013)[1]
- Hodgson may now have to bring in James Milner on the left and, on that basis, a certain amount of gloss was taken off a night on which Welbeck scored twice but barely celebrated either before leaving the pitch angrily complaining to the Slovakian referee.
- 2013, Daniel Taylor, Danny Welbeck leads England's rout of Moldova but hit by Ukraine ban (in The Guardian, 6 September 2013)[1]
- A regular frequency.
- You should brush your teeth on a daily basis at minimum.
- The flights to Fiji leave on a weekly basis.
- Cars must be checked on a yearly basis.
- (agriculture, trading) The difference between the cash price a dealer pays to a farmer for his produce and an agreed reference price, which is usually the futures price at which the given crop is trading at a commodity exchange.
- (linear algebra) In a vector space, a linearly independent set of vectors spanning the whole vector space.
- (accounting) Amount paid for an investment, including commissions and other expenses.
- (topology) A collection of subsets ("basis elements") of a set, such that this collection covers the set, and for any two basis elements which both contain an element of the set, there is a third basis element contained in the intersection of the first two, which also contains that element.
Synonyms
- (starting point for discussion): base
Derived terms
Translations
References
Anagrams
- absis, bassi, isbas
Catalan
Verb
basis
- second-person singular present subjunctive form of basar
Danish
Noun
basis
- (linear algebra) basis
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin basis, from Ancient Greek ????? (básis). Doublet of base. Also a distant doublet of komst, via Proto-Indo-European *g???tis.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?ba?.z?s/, /?ba?.z?s/
- Hyphenation: ba?sis
Noun
basis f (plural basissen or bases, diminutive basisje n)
- basis (principle, foundation, that which is elementary)
- base (lower portion, foundation)
- Obsolete form of base (“base, alkali”).
Derived terms
- basisarts
- basisbeurs
- basisdemocratie
- basisinkomen
- basisonderwijs
- basisschool
- machtsbasis
- thuisbasis
Related terms
- basaal
- base
Descendants
- ? Indonesian: basis
Finnish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?b?sis/, [?b?s?is?]
- Rhymes: -?sis
- Syllabification: ba?sis
Noun
basis
- basis, base
Declension
Anagrams
- bassi
Indonesian
Etymology
From Dutch basis, from Latin basis, from Ancient Greek ????? (básis). Doublet of basa.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?bas?s]
- Hyphenation: ba?sis
Noun
basis
- basis, base
- basis,
- (mathematics) in a vector space, a linearly independent set of vectors spanning the whole vector space.
- base,
- (geometry) the lowest side of a in a triangle or other polygon, or the lowest face of a cone, pyramid or other polyhedron laid flat.
- (military) permanent structure for housing military; headquarter.
Derived terms
Further reading
- “basis” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.
Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ????? (básis, “foundation, base”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?ba.sis/, [?bäs??s?]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?ba.sis/, [?b??s?is]
Noun
basis f (genitive basis); third declension
- A pedestal, foot, base; basis, foundation.
- (architecture) The lowest part of the shaft of a column.
- (grammar) The primitive word, root.
- (of cattle) A track, footprint.
Declension
Note that there are the alternative forms base?s for the genitive singular, base? for the ablative singular, basin for accusative singular, and baseis for the accusative plural.Third-declension noun (i-stem, accusative singular in -im, ablative singular in -?).
Synonyms
- (basis, foundation): r?d?x
- (pedestal, base): crep?d?
- (track, footprint): vest?gium
Derived terms
- basella
- basicula
- basil?ris
Related terms
- antibasis
Descendants
- English: base, basis
- French: base
- German: Basis f
- Italian: base
- Russian: ????? f (báza), ?????? m (bázis)
- Spanish: base
- Swedish: bas
References
- basis in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- basis in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- basis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ????? (básis)
Noun
basis m (definite singular basisen, indefinite plural basiser, definite plural basisene)
- basis
- base
Derived terms
- basisår
- verdensbasis
References
- “basis” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ????? (básis)
Noun
basis m (definite singular basisen, indefinite plural basisar, definite plural basisane)
- basis
- base
Derived terms
- basisår
References
- “basis” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
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- what basis you are seeking admission
- what basis points means
- what basis is used to hire employees
- what basis is a chemical equation balanced
- whats basis
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