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Target   /tˈɑrgət/  /tˈərgət/   Listen
noun
Target  n.  
1.
A kind of small shield or buckler, used as a defensive weapon in war.
2.
(a)
A butt or mark to shoot at, as for practice, or to test the accuracy of a firearm, or the force of a projectile.
(b)
The pattern or arrangement of a series of hits made by a marksman on a butt or mark; as, he made a good target.
3.
(Surveying) The sliding crosspiece, or vane, on a leveling staff.
4.
(Railroad) A conspicuous disk attached to a switch lever to show its position, or for use as a signal.
5.
A thin cut; a slice; specif., of lamb, a piece consisting of the neck and breast joints. (Eng.)
6.
A tassel or pendent; also, a shred; tatter. (Obs. Scot.)
7.
A goal for an activity; as, the target of this year's fundraising drive is 2 million dollars.
8.
A metallic object toward which a beam of electrons is aimed in a tube designed to generate X-rays; when the electrons strike the target, the impact causes emission of X-rays.
9.
Any object toward which a beam of photons, a laser beam, an electron beam, or a beam of atomic or subatomic particles is aimed.
10.
A person who is the subject of criticism or ridicule.





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"Target" Quotes from Famous Books



... alliterative trickery, the accumulation of far-fetched similes, the endless and often most inappropriate classical, mythological, and quasi-zoological allusions and parallels, are indeed sufficiently absurd and wearisome; and when "Euphuism" became a fashionable craze, its sillier disciples were a very fit target for jesting and mirth, very much as in our own day the humorists found abundant and legitimate food for laughter in the vagaries of what was known as "aestheticism". In both cases, the extravagances were the separable accidents, the superficial excrescences, of a real intellectual movement with a ...
— England Under the Tudors • Arthur D. Innes
... to head off a deer, they secure the one shot which is all-sufficient. It would be counted an extremely good piece of fortune could they obtain such a fair target as has already been given the young hunters; and, having let it pass unimproved, they scarcely would have expected to be so ...
— Through Forest and Fire - Wild-Woods Series No. 1 • Edward Ellis
... Cullen, I believe, is Kearney's; at all events, he is the worse for being made a target for pistol firing, and the archiepiscopal nose has been sorely damaged. Two views of Killarney in the weather of the period—that means July, and raining in torrents—and consequently the scene, for aught discoverable, might be the ...
— Lord Kilgobbin • Charles Lever
... the party slated for the afternoon cruise went over to the hotel. By the time that they came back from the midday meal the two service torpedoes were aboard the "Hastings" and the target was in readiness to ...
— The Submarine Boys' Lightning Cruise - The Young Kings of the Deep • Victor G. Durham
... whispers of the abnormal heat, and, gazing at the cloudless sky, fled from the sunshine to the shadow; or, looking over the expanse of woods, longed to be under cover and away from this lofty eyrie, which to their morbid eyes seemed a target for all ...
— A Gentleman of France • Stanley Weyman


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