Meaning

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

  "Take careful aim at the target."

• A goal or objective.

  "They have a target to finish the project by November."

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

• A shield resembling the Roman scutum, larger than the modern buckler.

• A bearing representing a buckler.

• The pattern or arrangement of a series of hits made by a marksman on a butt or mark.

  "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.

• The number of runs that the side batting last needs to score in the final innings in order to win

• The tenor of a metaphor.

• The translated version of a document, or the language into which translation occurs.

  "Do you charge by source or target?"

• A person (or group of people) that a person or organization is trying to employ or to have as a customer, audience etc.

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

• A tassel or pendant.

• A shred; a tatter.

Meaning

• To aim something, especially a weapon, at (a target).

• To aim for as an audience or demographic.

  "The advertising campaign targeted older women."

• To produce code suitable for.

  "This cross-platform compiler can target any of several processors."