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Meaning:

Noun:

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • obsolete A shield resembling the Roman scutum. In modern usage, a smaller variety of shield is usually implied by this term.
  • rail transport A conspicuous disk attached to a switch lever to show its position, or for use as a signal.
  • sport 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.
  • translation The translated version of a document, or the language into which translation occurs.

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Verb:

  • figurative To aim for as an audience or demographic.
  • transitive To aim something, especially a weapon, at (a target).

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