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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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meaning
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?mi?n??/
- Rhymes: -i?n??
Etymology 1
From Middle English mening, menyng, equivalent to mean +? -ing. Cognate with Scots mening (“intent, purpose, sense, meaning”), West Frisian miening (“opinion, mind”), Dutch mening (“view, opinion, judgement”), German Meinung (“opinion, view, mind, idea”), Danish and Swedish mening (“meaning, sense, sentence, opinion”), Icelandic meining (“meaning”).
Noun
meaning (countable and uncountable, plural meanings)
- (of words, expressions or symbols)
- The denotation, referent, or idea connected with a word, expression, or symbol.
- Elbows almost touching they leaned at ease, idly reading the almost obliterated lines engraved there. ¶ "I never understood it," she observed, lightly scornful. "What occult meaning has a sun-dial for the spooney? I'm sure I don't want to read riddles in a strange gentleman's optics."
- The connotation associated with a word, expression, or symbol.
- The denotation, referent, or idea connected with a word, expression, or symbol.
- The purpose, value, or significance (of something) beyond the fact of that thing's existence.
- The number of persons attending the vigil had a lot of meaning to the families.
- (of a person's actions) Intention.
- c. 1610?, Walter Raleigh, A Discourse of War
- It was their meaning to take what they needed by strong hand.
- c. 1610?, Walter Raleigh, A Discourse of War
Synonyms
- (denotation of words etc.): definition
- (connotation of words etc.):
- (purpose, significance):
- (of a person's actions): goal, aim, plan, intent
Hyponyms
- proposition
Derived terms
Translations
Etymology 2
From mean +? -ing.
Verb
meaning
- present participle of mean
Adjective
meaning (comparative more meaning, superlative most meaning)
- Having a (specified) intention.
- Expressing some intention or significance; meaningful.
- 1839, Edgar Allan Poe, "William Wilson"
- I might, to-day, have been a better, and thus a happier man, had I less frequently rejected the counsels embodied in those meaning whispers which I then but too cordially hated and too bitterly despised.
- 1978, Jane Gardam, God on the Rocks, Abacus 2014, p. 160:
- [T]he new friends […] knew nothing and did not particularly care to hear about the beautiful mother with her long, meaning looks and liquid dresses and distant smile.
- 1839, Edgar Allan Poe, "William Wilson"
References
- meaning at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- amening
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