The difference between Target and Target language
When used as nouns, target means a butt or mark to shoot at, as for practice, or to test the accuracy of a firearm, or the force of a projectile, whereas target language means the language a learner is attempting to acquire.
Target is also verb with the meaning: to aim something, especially a weapon, at (a target).
check bellow for the other definitions of Target and Target language
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Target as a noun:
A butt or mark to shoot at, as for practice, or to test the accuracy of a firearm, or the force of a projectile.
Examples:
"Take careful aim at the target."
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Target as a noun:
A goal or objective.
Examples:
"They have a target to finish the project by November."
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Target as a noun:
A kind of small shield or buckler, used as a defensive weapon in war.
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Target as a noun (obsolete):
A shield resembling the Roman scutum, larger than the modern buckler.
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Target as a noun (heraldry):
A bearing representing a buckler.
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Target as a noun (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."
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Target as a noun (surveying):
The sliding crosspiece, or vane, on a leveling staff.
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Target as a noun (rail transport):
A conspicuous disk attached to a switch lever to show its position, or for use as a signal.
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Target as a noun (cricket):
the number of runs that the side batting last needs to score in the final innings in order to win
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Target as a noun (linguistics):
The tenor of a metaphor.
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Target as a noun (translation studies):
The translated version of a document, or the language into which translation occurs.
Examples:
"Do you charge by source or target?"
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Target as a noun:
A person (or group of people) that a person or organization is trying to employ or to have as a customer, audience etc.
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Target as a noun (UK, dated):
A thin cut; a slice; specifically, of lamb, a piece consisting of the neck and breast joints.
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Target as a noun (Scotland, obsolete):
A tassel or pendant.
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Target as a noun (Scotland, obsolete):
A shred; a tatter.
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Target as a verb (transitive):
To aim something, especially a weapon, at (a target).
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Target as a verb (transitive, figuratively):
To aim for as an audience or demographic.
Examples:
"The advertising campaign targeted older women."
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Target as a verb (transitive, computing):
To produce code suitable for.
Examples:
"This cross-platform compiler can target any of several processors."
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Target language as a noun (linguistics):
The language a learner is attempting to acquire.
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Target language as a noun (linguistics, translation studies):
The language into which a translation is done.
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Target language as a noun (computing):
The machine language into which source code is to be compiled.