target

English Online Dictionary. What means target‎? What does target mean?

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 *targǭ (“edge”), from Proto-Indo-European *derǵʰ- (“fenced lot”). Akin to Old High German zarga (“side wall, rim”) (German Zarge (“frame”)), Spanish tarjeta (“card”).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈtɑɹɡɪt/, [ˈtʰɑɹɡɪt̚]
• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈtɑːɡɪt/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈtaːɡɪt/
• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)ɡɪt
• Hyphenation: tar‧get

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. An object of criticism or ridicule.
4. A person, place, or thing that is frequently attacked, criticized, or ridiculed.
5. A kind of shield:
   1. A kind of small shield or buckler, used as a defensive weapon in war.
   2. (obsolete) A shield resembling the Roman scutum, larger than the modern buckler.
   3. (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. (mathematics, category theory) The codomain of a function; the object at which a morphism points.

    Coordinate term: source

12. (translation studies) The translated version of a document, or the language into which translation occurs.

13. A person (or group of people) that a person or organization is trying to employ or to have as a customer, audience etc.
14. (UK, dated) A thin cut; a slice; specifically, of lamb, a piece consisting of the neck and breast joints.
15. (Scotland, obsolete) A tassel or pendant.

    Synonym: targe

16. (Scotland, obsolete) A shred; a tatter.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:goal
• (translated version): target language

Meronyms

• (sport): bull/bullseye, inner, magpie, outer

Coordinate terms

• (translated version): source

Derived terms

Descendants

• → Japanese: ターゲット (tāgetto)

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.

3. (transitive, computing) To produce code suitable for.

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• Gretta, gatter

Dutch

Pronunciation

Noun

target n (plural targets, diminutive targetje n)

1. target

Indonesian

Etymology

From English target.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈtarɡɛt/ [ˈt̪ar.ɡɛt̪̚]
• Rhymes: -arɡɛt
• Syllabification: tar‧get

Noun

targèt

1. target: a goal or objective.

   Synonym: sasaran

Derived terms

Further reading

• “target” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English target.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtaɾɡet/ [ˈt̪aɾ.ɣ̞et̪]
• Rhymes: -aɾɡet
• Syllabification: tar‧get

Noun

target m (plural targets)

1. target (goal, objective)

   Synonyms: objetivo, destinación

Usage notes

• According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.