Definition of Target

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Target

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

A tassel or pendent; also, a shred; tatter.

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

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

The pattern or arrangement of a series of hits made by a marksman on a butt or mark; as, he made a good target.

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

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

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Target Quotations

It is far more important to be able to hit the target than it is to haggle over who makes a weapon or who pulls a trigger.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.
Arthur Schopenhauer

It had all the earmarks of a CIA operation; the bomb killed everybody in the room except the intended target!
William F. Buckley, Jr.

Evolution has long been the target of illogical arguments that use presumption.
Marilyn vos Savant

A nice, easy place for freedom of speech to be eroded is comics, because comics are a natural target whenever an election comes up.
Neil Gaiman

In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.
Christian Nestell Bovee

The successful pilots succeeded because they did not open fire until they were close to the target.
Douglas Bader

When the target audience is American teenage kids, you can have problems. My generation prized really fine acting and writing. Sometimes you have to go back to the basic principles which underpin great visual comedy.
John Cleese

I can't tell you how much I love Target and Costco, that kind of culture, because it's something I never felt a part of. I've always felt like a tourist because I have never fit in anywhere.
Augusten Burroughs

I'm in the studio 24 hours a day. It's true that once you get a certain level of success, you become a target. Talk magazine should be ashamed of themselves.
Puff Daddy

Target Translations

target in German is Ziel, Ziel, Ziel(Lauferk), Zielbereich
target in Italian is traguardo
target in Spanish is meta

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