different between target vs scheme

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

From Medieval Latin sch?ma (“figure, form”), from Ancient Greek ????? (skhêma, “form, shape”), from ??? (ékh?, “I hold”). Doublet of schema. Compare sketch.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ski?m/
• Rhymes: -i?m

Noun

scheme (plural schemes)

1. A systematic plan of future action.
   • c. 1713, Jonathan Swift, Thoughts on Various Subjects

     The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.
2. A plot or secret, devious plan.
3. An orderly combination of related parts.

   • the appearance and outward scheme of things

   • 1706, Francis Atterbury, A Sermon Preach'd in the Cathedral Church of St. Paul; at the Funeral of My. Tho. Bennett

     such a scheme of things as shall at once take in time and eternity

   • 1754, Jonathan Edwards, The Freedom of the Will

     arguments […] sufficient to support and demonstrate a whole scheme of moral philosophy
4. A chart or diagram of a system or object.
   • April 29, 1694, Robert South, A Sermon Preached at Westminster Abbey

     to draw an exact scheme of Constantinople, or a map of France

5. (mathematics) A type of geometric object.
6. (Britain, chiefly Scotland) A council housing estate.
   • 2008, James Kelman, Kieron Smith, Boy, Penguin 2009, p. 101:

     It was all too dear. They all just put their prices up because it was out in the scheme.

7. (rhetoric) An artful deviation from the ordinary arrangement of words.
8. (astrology) A representation of the aspects of the celestial bodies for any moment or at a given event.
9. (Internet) Part of a uniform resource identifier indicating the protocol or other purpose, such as http: or news:.
10. (Britain, pensions) A portfolio of pension plans with related benefits comprising multiple independent members.

Usage notes

In the US, generally has devious connotations, while in the UK, frequently used as a neutral term for projects: “The road is closed due to a pavement-widening scheme.”

Synonyms

• (a systematic plan of future action): blueprint

Derived terms

• colour scheme
• pilot scheme

Descendants

• ? Malay: skim

Translations

Verb

scheme (third-person singular simple present schemes, present participle scheming, simple past and past participle schemed)

1. (intransitive) To plot, or contrive a plan.
2. (transitive) To plan; to contrive.
   • 1908, Bohemian Magazine (volume 15, page 381)

     He schemed a plot. He made use of the hotel's stationery to write a letter.

Translations

References

• Silva Rhetoricae

Anagrams

• Meches

Hunsrik

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??e?m?/

Verb

scheme

1. (reflexive) to be ashamed

Further reading

• Online Hunsrik Dictionary

Middle Low German

Etymology

From Old Saxon skimo (“shadow”). Originally masculine.

Pronunciation

• Stem vowel: ?¹
  • (originally) IPA^(key): /sk??m?/

Noun

scheme m or f

1. A shadow, a shade; a darkness created by an object obstructing light
2. A shadow, a shade; something which is barely perceptible or not physical

   ...lose se van der walt der dusternisse unde van deme scheme des dodes. (" ...free them from the power of darkness and the shadow of death." )

3. A shimmer; a soft or weak occurrence of light
4. twilight; the lighting conditions at dusk and dawn
5. A face mask
6. aureola

Alternative forms

• sceme