target

Definitions

• 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.
• (obsolete) A shield resembling the Roman scutum, larger than the modern buckler.
• (heraldry) A bearing representing a buckler.
• (sports) 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.
• (rail transport) A conspicuous disk attached to a switch lever to show its position, or for use as a signal.
• (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.
• (translation studies) The translated version of a document, or the language into which translation occurs.
• A person (or group of people) that a person or organization is trying to employ or to have as a customer, audience etc.
• (UK) A thin cut; a slice; specifically, of lamb, a piece consisting of the neck and breast joints.
• (Scotland) A tassel or pendant.
• (Scotland) A shred; a tatter.