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— English words —

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

— Foreign words, define in English —

• Cebuano
  • target n. Target.
  • target n. Bullseye.
  • target n. Children’s game where the objective is to hook rubber bands laid on the ground using a toy arrow.
  • target n. Toy arrow made of coconut midribs used in target.
  • target n. (Basketball) shot where the ball follows a straight line into the basket instead of an arc.
  • target v. To target.
  • target v. To hit with a projectile.
  • target v. (Basketball) to make a shot following a straight line instead of an arc.
  • target v. (Slang) to have someone to have sex.
• Indonesian
  • target n. Target: a goal or objective.

— English words, defined in German —

• target S. Schießscheibe, Zielscheibe.
• target S. Ziel.
• target S. Soll, Planziffer (Produktion).

— English words, defined in Dutch —

• target n. Roos, doelwit.
• target w. Als doelwit nemen.

— English words, defined in French —

• target n. Cible.
• target n. (Par extension) Cible, objectif.
• target v. Cibler, viser.

— English words, defined in Spanish —

• target s. Blanco, objetivo.
• target s. Señal en forma de disco que muestra la posición de la palanca de cabio de vía.
• target adj. Que es o puede ser un objetivo, un blanco.
• target v. Usar o designar como objetivo o blanco.
• target v. Dirigir o apuntar hacia el objetivo.

— English words, defined in Portuguese —

• target s. Alvo.
• target v. Almejar.

— English words, defined in Italian —

• target s. Traguardo.
• target s. Bersaglio.

— In Dutch —

• target n. Doel, streefwaarde.
• target n. (Bedrijfskunde) grootte van de nagestreefde omzet van een…
• target n. (Economie) waarde die een aandeel op de beurs volgens deskundigen…
• target n. (Natuurkunde) materiaal dat in een deeltjesversneller als…

— In French —

• target n.f. (Canada) (Anglicisme) (Familier) Cible.
• Target n.prop. (Géographie) Commune française, située dans le département…

— In Spanish —

• target s. Sector del mercado al que se dirige una acción de marketing…
• target s. Persona o conjunto de personas que integran ese sector.
• target s. Conjunto de personas o de cosas con ciertas características…
• target s. Persona o cosa que tiene características que la hacen deseable.
• target s. Conjunto de personas con ciertas características similares…
• target s. Persona que forma parte de este conjunto.

— In Portuguese —

• target s. (Estrangeirismo) (Mercadologia) ver alvo, grupo-alvo, público-alvo.
• target s. (Estrangeirismo) ver objetivo.

— In Italian —

• target s. Fascia di mercato.

176 English words from 30 English definitions

accuracy aim and arc arrangement arrow as␣for attached attacked audience ball bands basket Basketball batting bearing breast buckler Bullseye butt Children coconut code computing consisting consisting␣of conspicuous Cricket criticism criticized crosspiece customer cut dated defensive demographic disk document employ especially figuratively final firearm following follows for force frequently game goal ground group have have␣sex Heraldry hit hits hit␣with hook innings in␣order in␣order␣to instead instead␣of into its joints kind kind␣of laid lamb language larger last leveling leveling␣staff lever line Linguistics made made␣of make mark marksman metaphor midribs modern neck needs number object objective obsolete occurs of␣a of␣an on␣the on␣the␣ground order organization pattern pendant people person piece place position practice produce projectile Rail Rail␣transport representing resembling ridicule ridiculed Roman rubber rubber␣bands runs score Scotland scutum series sex shield shoot shot show shred side signal Slang slice sliding small someone something specifically Sports staff straight straight␣line studies suitable Surveying switch target tassel tatter tenor test than that that␣is the thin thing toy Transitive translated translation Translation␣studies transport trying use used using vane version war weapon where which win with

30 English words from 32 foreign definitions

als blanco Canada Commune con conjunto dans dat del département die dirige disco Doel een ese este extension Fascia marketing Par parte Persona personas que Roos sector ser van ver

66 foreign words from 32 foreign definitions

aandeel acción Almejar alvo Anglicisme apuntar Bedrijfskunde Bersaglio beurs características Cible Cibler ciertas como cosa cosas deeltjesversneller de␣la deseable designar deskundigen Dirigir doelwit Economie Estrangeirismo Familier forma française Géographie grootte grupo hacen hacia integran materiaal mercado mercato muestra Natuurkunde nemen objectif objetivo omzet palanca Par␣extension posición Produktion público puede puede␣ser Schießscheibe Señal similares située Soll streefwaarde tiene Traguardo una Usar vía viser volgens waarde Ziel Zielscheibe

53 suffixes (New words found by adding one or more letters at the end of the word.)

targets Targett targeted targeter targeteer targeters targetier targeting target␣man target␣men targetoid targetome targetron targetted targetter targetable target␣cell targeteers targetiers targetings targetless targetlike target-like targetoids targetomes targetrons targetters target␣text targetting target␣cells target␣group targettable target␣texts target␣domain target␣groups target␣market targetability target␣domains target␣markets target␣audience target␣language targetlessness target␣practice targetabilities target␣audiences targeted␣killing target␣languages targeted␣killings target␣for␣tonight target␣rating␣point targets␣for␣tonight target␣rating␣points target␣of␣opportunity

54 times in the middle (New words found by adding letters in front and at the end of the word.)

retargets apotargets biotargets detargeted geotargets mistargets nontargets non-targets retargeted subtargets untargeted antitargets autotargets cotargeting drop␣targets easy␣targets geotargeted mistargeted nontargeted oncotargets pretargeted retargeting retargetted soft␣targets autotargeted geotargeting microtargets mistargeting monotargeted nontargeting point␣targets pretargeting retargetable retargetting untargetable autotargeting hypertargeted immunotargets microtargeted moving␣targets multitargeted nontargetable non-target-like digital␣targets microtargeting micro-targeting multitargeting phosphotargets running␣targets immunotargeting +4 words

31 prefixes (New words found by adding one or more letters in front of the word.)

detarget on␣target retarget apotarget biotarget geotarget mistarget nontarget non-target off-target off␣target pretarget subtarget antitarget autotarget drop␣target easy␣target oncotarget soft␣target microtarget multitarget point␣target immunotarget moving␣target shot␣on␣target digital␣target phosphotarget running␣target shots␣on␣target treat-to-target digitized␣target

10 words-in-word (Words found as is inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

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10 words-in-word RTL (Words found written from right to left, inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

EGR Gra grat GRAT rat Rat RAT 'rat teg TEG

2 anagrams (New words found by changing the order of the letters.)

gatter Gretta

17 anagrams found with an extra letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word and an extra letter.)

egg␣tart Garbett Gargett garnett Garnett garotte Garrett grateth Gravett Hargett Raggett regatta regatte targets Targett tergant trigate

24 anagrams found minus a letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word minus a letter.)

atter ergat- gater Gater 'Gater get␣at Gettr grate great great- Greta ratte Ratte retag taget targe tater Tatge teart terga tetra tetra- treat Treat

5 cousins (New words found by changing only one letter.)

garget larget parget Tarbet targes

2 lipograms (New words found when removing only one letter.)

taget targe

One epenthesis (New word found when adding only one letter.)

Targett

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