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      target
      noun
      A goal or objective.
      A person, place, or thing that is frequently attacked, criticized, or ridiculed.
      An object of criticism or ridicule.
      A person (or group of people) that a person or organization is trying to employ or to have as a customer, audience etc.
      A butt or mark to shoot at, as for practice, or to test the accuracy of a firearm, or the force of a projectile.
      (cricket) the number of runs that the side batting last needs to score in the final innings in order to win
      A kind of shield:
      A kind of small shield or buckler, used as a defensive weapon in war.
      (heraldry) A bearing representing a buckler.
      (sports) The pattern or arrangement of a series of hits made by a marksman on a butt or mark.
      (surveying) The sliding crosspiece, or vane, on a leveling staff.
      (rail transport) A conspicuous disk attached to a switch lever to show its position, or for use as a signal.
      (mathematics, category theory) The codomain of a function; the object at which a morphism points.
      (linguistics) The tenor of a metaphor.
      (translation studies) The translated version of a document, or the language into which translation occurs.
      (obsolete) A shield resembling the Roman scutum, larger than the modern buckler.
      (UK, dated) A thin cut; a slice; specifically, of lamb, a piece consisting of the neck and breast joints.
      (Scotland, obsolete) A tassel or pendant.
      (Scotland, obsolete) A shred; a tatter.
      verb
      (transitive) To aim something, especially a weapon, at (a target).
      (transitive, figuratively) To aim for as an audience or demographic.
      (transitive, computing) To produce code suitable for.
      Synonyms for target
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