Wiktionary http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:Main_Page MediaWiki 1.16alpha case-sensitive Media Special Talk User User talk Wiktionary Wiktionary talk File File talk MediaWiki MediaWiki talk Template Template talk Help Help talk Category Category talk Appendix Appendix talk Concordance Concordance talk Index Index talk Rhymes Rhymes talk Transwiki Transwiki talk Wikisaurus Wikisaurus talk WT WT talk Citations Citations talk 56063 6912403 2009-07-01T04:15:55Z AutoFormat 32732 sorted/rebalanced translations {{wikipedia}} ==English== ===Etymology=== Diminutive of [[targe]]. ===Pronunciation=== * {{IPA|/tɑ:gɪt/}} * {{audio|en-us-target.ogg|Audio (US)}} ===Noun=== [[Image:Archery target.jpg|thumb|right|A target used for [[archery]].]] {{en-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]]. #: ''Take careful aim at the '''target'''.'' # A [[goal]] or [[objective]]. #: ''They have a '''target''' to finish the project by November.'' # {{armor}} A kind of [[small]] [[shield]] or [[buckler]], used as a [[defensive]] [[weapon]] in [[war]]. #* '''1598''', William Shakespeare, ''Henry IV'', Part I, Act II, Scene IV, line 200, #*: These four came all afront, and mainly thrust at me. I made me no more ado but took all their seven points in my '''target''', thus. # {{armor|obsolete}} A shield resembling the [[Roman]] [[scutum]]. In modern usage, a smaller variety of shield is usually implied by this term. #* '''1786''', Francis Grose, ''A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons'', page 22, #*: The '''target''' or buckler was carried by the heavy armed foot, it answered to the scutum of the Romans; its form was sometimes that of a rectangular parallelogram, but more commonly had its bottom rounded off; it was generally convex, being curved in its breadth. # {{sport}} The [[pattern]] or [[arrangement]] of a series of [[hit]]s made by a [[marksman]] on a butt or mark. #: ''He made a good '''target'''.'' # {{surveying}} The sliding [[crosspiece]], or [[vane]], on a leveling [[staff]]. # {{rail transport}} A [[conspicuous]] disk attached to a [[switch]] [[lever]] to show its [[position]], or for use as a [[signal]]. # {{cricket}} the number of [[run]]s that the side [[batting]] last needs to [[score]] in the final [[inning]]s in order to [[win]] # {{linguistics}} The [[tenor]] of a [[metaphor]]. # {{translation}} The translated version of a document, or the language into which translation occurs. #: ''Do you charge by source or '''target'''?'' ====Synonyms==== * See also [[Wikisaurus:goal]] * {{sense|translated version}} [[target language]] ====Coordinate terms==== * {{sense|translated version}} [[source]] ====Translations==== {{trans-top|kind of small shield (1)}} * Finnish: {{t+|fi|kilpi}} {{trans-mid}} * Swahili: {{t|sw|lengwa}} {{trans-bottom}} {{trans-top|shield resembling the Roman scutum (2)}} * Swahili: {{t|sw|lengwa}} {{trans-mid}} {{trans-bottom}} {{trans-top|butt or mark to shoot at (3)}} * Croatian: {{t-|hr|meta|f}} * Czech: {{t-|cs|terč|m}} * Danish: [[mål]], [[skydeskive]] * Finnish: {{t+|fi|maali}}, {{t+|fi|kohde}} * French: {{t+|fr|cible|f}} * Hebrew: {{t-|he|מטרה|tr=matara|sc=Hebr}} {{trans-mid}} * Kurdish: {{t+|ku|نیشان|sc=ku-Arab}} * Serbian: {{t-|sr|meta|f}} * Slovene: {{t+|sl|tarča|f}} * Swahili: {{t|sw|lengwa}} * Thai: {{t|th|เป้าหมาย|sc=Thai}} {{trans-bottom}} {{checktrans-top}} * {{ttbc|Spanish}}: [[blanco]] {{trans-bottom}} ===Verb=== {{en-verb|targets|'''[[targeting]]''' or '''[[targetting]]'''|'''[[targeted]]''' or '''[[targetted]]'''}} # {{transitive}} To aim something, especially a weapon, at (a target). # {{transitive|figurative}} To aim for as an [[audience]] or [[demographic]]. #: ''The advertising campaign '''targeted''' older women.'' ====Translations==== {{trans-top|to aim something (especially a weapon) at a target}} * Danish: [[sigte efter]], [[rette mod]] * Finnish: {{t-|fi|tähdätä}} * Kurdish: {{ku-Arab|[[نیشانه‌ گرتن]]}} {{trans-mid}} * Persian: {{fa-Arab|[[هدف]]}} (hadaf) * Swahili: {{t|sw|lengwa}} {{trans-bottom}} Russian: направлено (napravleno) ===See also=== * {{pedialite|dab=Target}} [[zh-min-nan:target]] [[de:target]] [[et:target]] [[es:target]] [[fa:target]] [[fr:target]] [[ko:target]] [[io:target]] [[it:target]] [[kk:target]] [[hu:target]] [[pl:target]] [[pt:target]] [[ru:target]] [[simple:target]] [[fi:target]] [[ta:target]] [[te:target]] [[vi:target]] [[zh:target]]