TARGET

Target

Target is a 1985 film directed by Arthur Penn. It stars Matt Dillon and Gene Hackman.

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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. A shield resembling the Roman scutum. In modern usage, a smaller variety of shield is usually implied by this term.
  5. The pattern or arrangement of a series of hits made by a marksman on a butt or mark.
  6. The sliding crosspiece, or vane, on a leveling staff.
  7. A conspicuous disk attached to a switch lever to show its position, or for use as a signal.
  8. the number of runs that the side batting last needs to score in the final innings in order to win
  9. The tenor of a metaphor.
  10. The translated version of a document, or the language into which translation occurs.
  11. A person (or group of people) that a person or organization is trying to employ or to have as a customer, audience etc.

Verb

  1. To aim something, especially a weapon, at (a target).
  2. To aim for as an audience or demographic.
    The advertising campaign targeted older women.
  3. To produce code suitable for.
    This cross-platform compiler can target any of several processors.


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