| target | |
| 1. n. A butt or mark to shoot at, as for practice, or to test the accuracy of a firearm, or the force of a projectile. | |
| Take careful aim at the target. | |
| 2. n. A goal or objective. | |
| They have a target to finish the project by November. | |
| 3. n. A kind of small shield or buckler, used as a defensive weapon in war. | |
| 4. n. (obsolete) A shield resembling the Roman scutum, larger than the modern buckler. | |
| 5. n. (heraldry) A bearing representing a buckler. | |
| 6. n. (sports) The pattern or arrangement of a series of hits made by a marksman on a butt or mark. | |
| He made a good target. | |
| 7. n. (surveying) The sliding crosspiece, or vane, on a leveling staff. | |
| 8. n. (rail transport) A conspicuous disk attached to a switch lever to show its position, or for use as a signal. | |
| 9. n. (cricket) the number of runs that the side batting last needs to score in the final innings in order to win | |
| 10. n. (linguistics) The tenor of a metaphor. | |
| 11. n. (translation studies) The translated version of a document, or the language into which translation occurs. | |
| Do you charge by source or target? | |
| 12. n. A person (or group of people) that a person or organization is trying to employ or to have as a customer, audience etc. | |
| 13. n. (dated) A thin cut; a slice; specifically, of lamb, a piece consisting of the neck and breast joints. | |
| 14. n. (Scotland, obsolete) A tassel or pendant. | |
| 15. n. (Scotland, obsolete) A shred; a tatter. | |
| 16. v. To aim something, especially a weapon, at (a target). | |
| 17. v. (transitive, figuratively) To aim for as an audience or demographic. | |
| The advertising campaign targeted older women. | |
| 18. v. (transitive, computing) To produce code suitable for. | |
| This cross-platform compiler can target any of several processors. | |
