target
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Is target a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. A kind of shield:Examples: "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."obsolete
2. A kind of shield:Examples: "The fourth field is also party per pale, and for the dutchy of Genevois, contains chequered Or and azure: The sinister for the dutchy of Montserat, a target, gules. The point Or is a black eagle of the county of Maurienne."
3. (sports) The pattern or arrangement of a series of hits made by a marksman on a butt or mark.Examples: "He made a good target."
4. (surveying) The sliding crosspiece, or vane, on a leveling staff.
5. (rail transport) A conspicuous disk attached to a switch lever to show its position, or for use as a signal.
6. (cricket) the number of runs that the side batting last needs to score in the final innings in order to win
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To aim something, especially a weapon, at (a target).transitive
2. (transitive, figuratively) To aim for as an audience or demographic.Examples: "The advertising campaign targeted older women."figurativelytransitive
3. (transitive, computing) To produce code suitable for.Examples: "This cross-platform compiler can target any of several processors."transitive
Definition source: Wiktionary