different between target vs resolve

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)

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 goal or objective.

3. 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.

4. (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.

5. (heraldry) A bearing representing a buckler.
6. (sports) The pattern or arrangement of a series of hits made by a marksman on a butt or mark.

7. (surveying) The sliding crosspiece, or vane, on a leveling staff.
8. (rail transport) A conspicuous disk attached to a switch lever to show its position, or for use as a signal.
9. (cricket) the number of runs that the side batting last needs to score in the final innings in order to win
10. (linguistics) The tenor of a metaphor.
11. (translation studies) The translated version of a document, or the language into which translation occurs.

12. A person (or group of people) that a person or organization is trying to employ or to have as a customer, audience etc.
13. (Britain, dated) A thin cut; a slice; specifically, of lamb, a piece consisting of the neck and breast joints.
14. (Scotland, obsolete) A tassel or pendant.
15. (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)

1. (transitive) To aim something, especially a weapon, at (a target).
2. (transitive, figuratively) To aim for as an audience or demographic.

   The advertising campaign targeted older women.

3. (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

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 goal or objective
3. (sports) the pattern or arrangement of a series of hits made by a marksman on a butt or mark
4. a shot of tuba

Verb

target

1. to aim something, especially a weapon, at (a target)
2. to hurl something at a target
3. 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)

1. target

Spanish

Etymology

From English target.

Noun

target m (plural targets)

1. target (goal, objective)

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English resolven, from Old French resolver, a learned borrowing of Latin resolv? (“loosen, thaw, melt, resolve”), equivalent to re- +? solve.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /???z?lv/, /?i??z?lv/
• Rhymes: -?lv or Rhymes: -?lv
• (US) IPA^(key): /???z?lv/

Verb

resolve (third-person singular simple present resolves, present participle resolving, simple past and past participle resolved)

1. (transitive) To find a solution to (a problem).
2. (transitive) To reduce to simple or intelligible notions; to make clear or certain; to unravel; to explain.
3. (intransitive) To make a firm decision to do something.
4. (transitive) To determine or decide in purpose; to make ready in mind; to fix; to settle.

5. To come to an agreement or make peace; patch up relationship, settle differences, bury the hatchet.

6. (transitive, intransitive, reflexive) To break down into constituent parts; to decompose; to disintegrate; to return to a simpler constitution or a primeval state.
   • 1665, John Dryden, The Indian Emperour

     Ye immortal souls, who once were men, / And now resolved to elements again.
7. To cause to perceive or understand; to acquaint; to inform; to convince; to assure; to make certain.
   • 1596, Walter Raleigh, The discovery of the large, rich, and beautiful Empire of Guiana, with a relation of the great and golden city of Manoa

     In health, good air, pleasure, riches, I am resolved it cannot be equalled by any region.

   • 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

     She was proceeding in this manner when the surgeon entered the room. The lieutenant immediately asked how his patient did. But he resolved him only by saying, "Better, I believe, than he would have been by this time, if I had not been called; and even as it is, perhaps it would have been lucky if I could have been called sooner."

8. (music) To cause a chord to go from dissonance to consonance.
9. (optics) To render visible or distinguishable the parts of something.
10. (computing) To find the IP address of a hostname, or the entity referred to by a symbol in source code; to look up.
11. (rare, transitive) To melt; to dissolve; to liquefy or soften (a solid).
12. (rare, intransitive, reflexive) To melt; to dissolve; to become liquid.
    • 1730, John Arbuthnot, An Essay Concerning the Nature of Aliments

      When the blood stagnates in any part, it first coagulates, then resolves, and turns alkaline.

13. (obsolete, transitive) To liquefy (a gas or vapour).
14. (medicine, dated) To disperse or scatter; to discuss, as an inflammation or a tumour.
15. (obsolete) To relax; to lay at ease.
    • 1641, Ben Jonson, Discoveries Made upon Men and Matter

      resolve himself into all sports and looseness again

16. (chemistry) To separate racemic compounds into their enantiomers.
17. (mathematics, archaic, transitive) To solve (an equation, etc.).

Derived terms

• resolvable
• resolver

Translations

References

• John A. Simpson and Edward S. C. Weiner, editors (1989) , “resolve”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ?ISBN

Noun

resolve (countable and uncountable, plural resolves)

1. Determination; will power.

   It took all my resolve to go through with the surgery.
2. A determination to do something; a fixed decision.
   • 1995, William Arctander O'Brien, Novalis, Signs of Revolution (page 56)

     His resolve to die is weakening as he grows accustomed to Sophie's absence, and all his attempts to master irresolution only augment it.

3. (countable) An act of resolving something; resolution.
   • 2008, Matt Lombard, SolidWorks 2007 Bible (page 956)

     Some operations require data that, in turn, requires that lightweight components be resolved. In these cases, this option determines whether the user is prompted to approve the resolve or whether components are just resolved automatically.

Synonyms

• fortitude, inner strength, resoluteness, sticktoitiveness, tenacity

Translations

See also

• set of one's jaw

Etymology 2

re- +? solve

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?i?s?lv/
• Rhymes: -?lv
• (US) IPA^(key): /?i?s?lv/
• Rhymes: -?lv

Verb

resolve (third-person singular simple present resolves, present participle resolving, simple past and past participle resolved)

1. (transitive) To solve again.

Translations

Anagrams

• reloves

Italian

Verb

resolve

1. third-person singular present indicative of resolvere

Anagrams

• solvere, svelerò, svolere

Latin

Verb

resolve

1. second-person singular present active imperative of resolv?

Portuguese

Verb

resolve

1. Third-person singular (ele, ela, also used with tu and você^?) present indicative of resolver
2. Second-person singular (tu) affirmative imperative of resolver