Word Finder - target

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A butt or mark to shoot at, as for practice, or to test the accuracy of a firearm, or the force of a projectile.

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Take careful aim at the target.

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A goal or objective.

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They have a target to finish the project by November.

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

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A shield resembling the Roman scutum, larger than the modern buckler.

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A bearing representing a buckler.

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The pattern or arrangement of a series of hits made by a marksman on a butt or mark.

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He made a good target.

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The sliding crosspiece, or vane, on a leveling staff.

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A conspicuous disk attached to a switch lever to show its position, or for use as a signal.

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The number of runs that the side batting last needs to score in the final innings in order to win

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The tenor of a metaphor.

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The translated version of a document, or the language into which translation occurs.

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Do you charge by source or target?

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A person (or group of people) that a person or organization is trying to employ or to have as a customer, audience etc.

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A thin cut; a slice; specifically, of lamb, a piece consisting of the neck and breast joints.

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A tassel or pendant.

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A shred; a tatter.

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

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To aim for as an audience or demographic.

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The advertising campaign targeted older women.

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To produce code suitable for.

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This cross-platform compiler can target any of several processors.

It'll make a good target for your enemies.

She focused on the target, a plate above the hearth.

You need to do a little target practice too.

Pick a human school to target for breakfast.

The three Austrian corps were exactly the target Prince Frederick Charles desired.

They will see you as a target.

Cassie squinted into the darkness, searching for a target, but all she could see was dust and an occasional hoof.

Everyone associated with your target is a weak point.

She had a laser gun, even if she couldn't hit a target two feet in front of her.

Molly was his prime target but for some reason, he'd kept me alive.

Good. We've been monitoring the target for awhile.

You make an easy target.

I should make too good a target for the French, besides I am afraid I should hardly be able to climb onto a horse.

She was his next target.

Being underground meant he was a much harder target to hit, yet despite his attempts to convince his brother to act likewise, he'd not yet succeeded.

Joseph has a gun and I don't like being used for target practice.

Because Cade was so reclusive and entertained controversial ideas, he was a target for that kind of gossip.

Watch yourself; you're public and he might very well target you or your people.

She willed the magic to hit its target.

Not until 11 was it possible to open fire, for want of a visible target, but about noon, after a preliminary cannonade, Gustavus gave the word to advance.

The layer has under his control the hand-wheel for setting the range on the sights, another hand-wheel for elevating the gun and the sights on to the Detachable target, and a third for traversing the turret.

To overcome drift the axis must be pointed to the left of the target, and the amount will increase with the range.

You must focus on controlling your breathing and keep your eye on the target.

Alex took them to the place where he target practiced with Bill and Jonathan.

Pulling her rifle from the box under the seat, he left Jonathan with the younger children and walked Carmen to a spot facing the target.

His first literary work, except the bombastic but eloquent Essai sur le despotisme (Neufchatel, 1 775), was a translation of Robert Watson's Philip II., done in Holland with the help of Durival; his Considerations sur l'ordre de Cincinnatus (London, 1788) was based on a pamphlet by Aedanus Burke (1743-1802), of South Carolina, who opposed the aristocratic tendencies of the Society of the Cincinnati, and the notes to it were by Target;, his financial writings were suggested by the Genevese exile, Claviere.

Seeing clearly that his want of an efficient cavalry precluded all ideas of a resolute offensive in his old style, he determined to limit himself to a defence of the line of the Elbe, making only dashes of a few days' duration at any target the enemy might present.

Moseley, shortly after the discovery of the diffraction of X-rays by crystals, set to work to examine the X-ray spectrum of a number of elements each of which he made in turn the target of an X-ray tube.

When the target is completely concealed it is necessary to lay the gun on an aiming point more or less out of the line of fire, or to lay on a " director " with a large amount of deflection, and to align aiming posts with the sights at zero to give the direction of the target, and afterwards perhaps to transfer the line of sight to some other distant object, all of which require a far greater scope of deflection than is afforded by the deflection leaf.

Xander turned his back to the approaching Guardian to give her a better target then addressed her.

For the first time, Cassie realized what a target they had been around the fire at night.

If it is not she I suspect she possesses knowledge of the one I seek, the one who is my target.

I'm still undecided which one is my target but I'll soon have my answer and more!

Your target is in this house, and you're going to lay there?

He kicked himself mentally for not thinking before he made any sort of pact with the Watcher, even one that seemed so straightforward, until he met his target and realized she was an innocent caught in the crossfire.

He refused to do as we said and kill his target.

So what if he failed at taking out a target?

The tile floor was dressed with a Native American rug that didn't look like a Target sale item.

Any thought she had at Andre's apartment not being the target fled as she saw the damage done to her side of the building.

If he tried, he.d be able to locate his target and track her as she moved until she was dead-dead.

At the first drop of laser missiles, Brady had figured there was one thing that would make the fed jets target the inconsequential town, and it was Lana.

He flung open his arms, giving her his whole body as a target.

The first lesson I taught Jonny was that those people closest to his target were vulnerabilities.

Strutt (Sports and Pastimes) suggests that the first player's bowl may have been regarded by the second player as a species of jack; but in that case it is not clear what was the first player's target.

A greater volume of fire can thus be obtained, but the great height of the cavalier makes it an easy target for a besieger's guns.

Finally, although Clay for his support of the compromises and Seward and Chase for their opposition have gained in reputation, Webster has been selected as the special target for hostile criticism.

But the improved organization, better communications and supplies, superior moral, and once again the breech-loader versus a standing target, which caused the Prussian successes, at least give us an opportunity of comparing the old and the new systems under similar conditions, and even thus the principle of the "armed nation" achieved the decision in a period of time which, for the old armies, was wholly insufficient.

Any Turkish battery that was chosen for target generally ceased firing before long; and the assailants were disposed to assume that the work was definitely put out of action, whereas all that had happened in reality was that the hostile gunners had been driven from their guns.

The English archers were provided with a good target in the masses of the Scottish spearmen, and Hotspur was restrained from charging by his ally, George Dunbar, earl of March.

Owing to the conical shape of the early muzzle-loading guns, if one trunnion were higher than the other, the " line of metal " would no longer be in the same vertical plane as the axis; in consequence of this, if a gun with, say, one wheel higher than the other were layed by this line, the axis would point off the target to the side of the lower wheel.