Word Finder - targets

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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.

Your kind are targets for bad guys.

Someone broke into this house of one of my targets and some sort of mayhem followed.

That put everyone at risk, but her goats were the easiest targets.

Sixteen battleships entered the Straits to participate in the encounter, the manoeuvring of so large a number of great vessels in this narrow space was a matter of some difficulty and also gave excellent targets for the Turkish artillery, which replied to their fire with unexpected spirit.

In coast defence artillery, owing to the fact that the guns are on fixed mountings at a constant height (except for rise and fall of tide) above the horizontal plane on which their targets move, and that consequently the angle of sight and quadrant elevation for every range can be calculated, developments in sights, in a measure, gave way to improved means of giving quadrant elevation.

The archers shot well and with strong bows, though their arrows were generally tipped only with stone or bone; their shields or targets, mostly round, were of ordinary barbaric forms; the spears or javelins had heads of obsidian or bronze, and were sometimes hurled with a spear-thrower or atlatl, of which pictures and specimens still exist, showing it to be similar in principle to those used by the Australians and Eskimo.

His formula relies on a sulfuric paste applied to arrows and shot at enemy targets.

Consistently strong performance in meeting national service priorities and improvement targets and carrying forward the Government's modernizing agenda for social services.

These are Achievement Targets and, as such, the ultimate aim of the aggregated training being delivered.

Three principal aims (targets) are being pursued.

Two other " targets of interest " involved hijacked Cuban airliners.

To those advertisers whose targets were missed, we will make the necessary amends.

Targets Carnival Cruise Lines black singles passengers paying a success Anita decided then positions to.

In order to secure CAT's human monoclonal antibody drug pipeline into the future, CAT continues to develop its pool of drug targets.

All told, an impressive array of tempting targets.

Set short-term academic and social targets to help accelerate attainment and identify areas where additional support is needed.

Why don't they shoot straight at their targets instead of using a blunderbuss?

National targets state that if a patient has a heart attack they must receive clot busters within a specified time after arriving at hospital.

The large squares of pikemen and archers which had earlier overcome mounted cavalry, now became targets for artillery and musket fire.

Many of these proteins are also cleaved by proteases, and these enzyme activities are targets of drugs that stop invasion.

According to Simon Jenkins in the Times, Gordon Brown and I sit at the heart of a " vast cobweb " of targets.

Students will basically learn; how to drop bombs, strafe targets and the basics of air-to-air combat.

Every fortnight the entire division is briefed on a list of five ' targets ' - either individuals or teams of suspected criminals.

They also can provide laser designation of targets for attack by fire support means.

Targets for drugs designed to treat many human diseases will often be such human proteins.

But many questions still remain - What approach is best to achieve landfill diversion targets?

Those who failed to meet sales targets were made to stand in the corner wearing a dunce 's hat.

Targets include other AEDs, particularly phenytoin, phenobarbitone, carbamazepine epoxide, and lamotrigine.

Research underway to elucidate the etiology and pathways of diabetic microvascular disease has revealed new targets for drug design.

Major improvements in concept, componentry and information exaction continue to make radar more capable in detecting and identifying targets.

Just six. we can criticize the failings of institutions; they are easy targets.

You should be aware of the global risk of indiscriminate terrorist attacks which could be against civilian targets, including places frequented by foreigners.

Has normal frag grenades + Emp grenades which can kill multiple targets in a large radius.

We desperately need the right legislative framework to bring down emissions, rather than non binding targets.

Spending Review 2000 SDA targets 8. The SFO seeks to deter fraud.

Such developments make these counties prime targets for external funders determined to get value for their money.

Another vaccine targets a hormone called gastrin, which is normally made by the pancreas.

Gentleman has rather glossed over what I actually said, which is that we will meet our Kyoto targets.

Recent achievements include the identification of circuits that control body weight homeostasis, which could provide novel targets for the treatment of obesity.

Shooting at targets showing humanoid or animal shapes is also not permitted.

Bins placed out the day before are easy targets for malicious ignition.

This treatment, called antigen-specific immunotherapy, specifically targets the immune system's T cells that cause the disease.

In a further question concerning cancer waiting time targets and proposed ward changes, at Aberdeen royal infirmary.

The cut and thrust of debate and development has covered everything from pay to targets, from assessment success to merging inspectorates.

What is not clear is what will happen to the HEU fuel and the ' targets ' once irradiated.

The Technical Service can calculate U-values for external roofs and walls to assist in selecting Knauf insulating laminates to meet thermal insulation targets.

Generally, they want nice, positive comedy and were clear that spoofs should only gently lampoon their targets.

The impetus for these targets has mainly come from European legislation on waste, which is slowing impacting on the UK.

In the context of global warming there are a wealth of targets for action including legislators, corporate executives and the general public.

Essentially biological liposuction works because it is possible to trick the immune defenses into thinking that the fat cells are appropriate targets for elimination.