Target

Noun

 * 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.
 * 2) A goal or objective.
 * 3) A kind of small shield or buckler, used as a defensive weapon in war.
 * 4)  The pattern or arrangement of a series of hits made by a marksman on a butt or mark.
 * 5)  The sliding crosspiece, or vane, on a leveling staff.
 * 6)  A conspicuous disk attached to a switch lever to show its position, or for use as a signal.
 * 7)  the number of runs that the side batting last needs to score in the final innings in order to win
 * 8)  The tenor of a metaphor.
 * 9)  The translated version of a document, or the language into which translation occurs.
 * 10)  A shield resembling the Roman scutum. In modern usage, a smaller variety of shield is usually implied by this term.

Verb

 * 1)  To aim something, especially a weapon, at (a target).
 * 2)  To aim for as an audience or demographic.
 * 3)  To produce code suitable for.

Adjectives for Target
uplifted; flaming; sensible; suitable; vulnerable; conspicuous; momentary; superb; helpless; receptive; rapid; moving; human; disappearing.

Verbs for Target
align with—; batter—; buffet—; collide -with—; deflect from—; deflect—; deviate from—; direct toward—; diverge from—; fall short of—; flay—; level at—; rebound from—; riddle—; smite—; speed toward—; steer toward—; swerve from—; thwack—; — eludes.

Thesaurus
goal, goat, ionization, jest, jestingstock, joke, laughingstock, mark, mockery, monkey, neutron reaction, nonreversible reaction, nuclear fission, nucleization, object, object in mind, objective, photodisintegration, prey, proton gun, proton reaction, purpose, pursuit, quarry, quintain, reason for being, reversible reaction, scapegoat, sitting duck, splitting the atom, stimulation, stock, teleology, thermonuclear reaction, toy, ultimate aim, use, victim, whipping boy, aim, alpha decay, atom-chipping, atom-smashing, atomic disintegration, atomic reaction, atomization, beta decay, bombardment, breeding, bullet, butt, by-end, by-purpose, byword, byword of reproach, chain reaction, cleavage, derision, destination, disintegration series, dissociation, dupe, duty, end, end in view, exchange reaction, fair game, fall guy, figure of fun, final cause, fission, fission reaction, fool, function, game, gamma decay, gazingstock,

Etymology
Diminutive of targe.

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:goal
 * target language

Coordinate terms

 * source

Noun

 * Armenian: թիրախ
 * Belarusian: мішэнь
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 標的, 标的
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: mål, skydeskive
 * Finnish:, maalitaulu
 * French:
 * German: Zielscheibe
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:


 * Japanese: 標的
 * Kurdish:
 * Persian: سیبل, سیبل
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: мишень
 * Serbian:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: lengwa
 * Thai: เป้าหมาย
 * Ukrainian: мішень


 * Arabic: هدف, مرمى
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 目標, 目标
 * Finnish: päämäärä, tavoite
 * French: cible, objectif


 * German: Ziel
 * Japanese: 目標
 * Korean: 목표 (目標)
 * Portuguese: objetivo
 * Russian: цель
 * Spanish: objetivo
 * Vietnamese: mục tiêu


 * Finnish:
 * Russian: мишень, цель


 * Swahili: lengwa


 * Swahili: lengwa


 * Finnish: vaihdesignaali

Verb

 * Danish: sigte efter, rette mod
 * Finnish:
 * Greek: στοχεύω
 * Kurdish:


 * Persian: (hadaf)
 * Portuguese: mirar
 * Russian: целиться, прицелиться , нацелиться ; направлять , направлять
 * Swahili: lengwa