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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



... veiled remarks. They surprised him, but at first he was inclined to consider them as meaningless and unfounded as so much of the gossip of the clubs. Men like Valentine must always be a target for the arrows of the cynical. Julian had heard his sanctity laughed at in billiard-rooms and in bars many times, and had simply felt an easy contempt for the laughers, who could not understand ...
— Flames • Robert Smythe Hichens
... have been related in the question. Many words are often necessary to convey a very simple statement; for in this sort of exercise we never hit the gold; the most that we can hope, is by many arrows, more or less far off on different sides, to indicate, in the course of time, for what target we are aiming, and after an hour's talk, back and forward to convey the purport of a single principle or a single thought. And yet while the curt, pithy speaker misses the point entirely, a wordy, prolegomenous babbler will often add three new offences ...
— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition - Vol. 2 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson
... contemplated the scenery. In his hand Red Hoss still carried the long hickory stick with which he had guided the steps of Mr. Bell's new cow. He flung his staff at the inviting mark now presented to him. Whirling in its flight, it caught its target squarely across the neck, and the rabbit died so quickly it did not have time to squeak, and ...
— Sundry Accounts • Irvin S. Cobb
... Texan and pointed. Six bullet holes were scattered across his target, line shots, one above the other; and poor Bill, disconcerted, ...
— Copper Streak Trail • Eugene Manlove Rhodes
... so small when it is little. It sees all that beaming. A target is all in the middle and it receives it most. ...
— Matisse Picasso and Gertrude Stein - With Two Shorter Stories • Gertrude Stein


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