Definizione monolingua

target

target (third-person singular simple present targets, present participle targeting or targetting, simple past and past participle targeted or targetted)

1. (transitive) To aim something, especially a weapon, at (a target).
2. (transitive, figuratively) To aim for as an audience or demographic.

   The advertising campaign targeted older women.

3. (transitive, computing) To produce code suitable for.

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

target (plural targets)

1. 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.

2. A goal or objective.

   They have a target to finish the project by November.

3. 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.

4. (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.

5. (sports) The pattern or arrangement of a series of hits made by a marksman on a butt or mark.

   He made a good target.

6. (surveying) The sliding crosspiece, or vane, on a leveling staff.
7. (rail transport) A conspicuous disk attached to a switch lever to show its position, or for use as a signal.
8. (cricket) the number of runs that the side batting last needs to score in the final innings in order to win
9. (linguistics) The tenor of a metaphor.
10. (translation studies) The translated version of a document, or the language into which translation occurs.

    Do you charge by source or target?

11. A person (or group of people) that a person or organization is trying to employ or to have as a customer, audience etc.
    • 2011 September 2, Phil McNulty, “Bulgaria 0-3 England”, BBC:

      Gary Cahill, a target for Arsenal and Tottenham before the transfer window closed, put England ahead early on and Rooney was on target twice before the interval as the early hostility of the Bulgarian supporters was swiftly subdued.

Definizione dizionario target

proposito

scopo

	database di destinazione
	The database on which an operation acts.

	destinazione
	The database on which an operation acts.

	target
	The database on which an operation acts.

bersaglio

disco

fine

intenzione

meta

mira

obiettivo

oggetto

segno

traguardo

Altri significati:

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 person who is the aim of an attack (especially a victim of ridicule or exploitation) by some hostile person or influence.

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

goal or objective

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

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

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

kind of small shield

butt or mark to shoot at

to aim something (especially a weapon) at a target

object (of worship, study, etc.)

(linguistics) The tenor of a metaphor.

(transitive, figuratively) To aim for as an audience or demographic.

A reference point to shoot at.

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

A goal or objective.

(transitive, computing) To produce code suitable for.

(surveying) The sliding crosspiece, or vane, on a leveling staff.

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

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