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Word: target
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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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