Target

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Pronunciation 1.3 Noun 1.3.1 Translations 1.4 Verb 1.5 External links

English

Etymology

Diminutive of targe.

Pronunciation

IPA: /tɑ:gɪt/

Noun

Target (plural Targets)

1. (Armor) A kind of small shield or buckler, used as a defensive weapon in war.

   Quotations

   • 1598: 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. — William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part I, Act II, Scene IV, line 200.

2. (Armor) (Obsolete) A shield resembling the Roman scutum. In modern usage, a smaller variety of shield is usually implied by this term.

   Quotations

   • 1786: 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 it's bottom rounded off; it was generally convex, being curved in it's breadth. — Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 22.

3. A butt or mark to shoot at, as for practice, or to test the accuracy of a firearm, or the force of a projectile.
4. The pattern or arrangement of a series of hits made by a marksman on a butt or mark; as, he made a good target.
5. (Surveying) The sliding crosspiece, or vane, on a leveling staff.
6. (Railroad) A conspicuous disk attached to a switch lever to show its position, or for use as a signal.
7. (cricket) the number of runs that the side batting last needs to score in the final innings in order to win

Translations

• Spanish: blanco

Verb

to target (third-person singular simple present targets, present participle targeting, simple past targeted, past participle targeted)

1. To aim something (especially a weapon) at a target.

External links

• Wikipedia article on shield.

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