Target vs Hope - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between target and hope

is that target is a butt or mark to shoot at, as for practice, or to test the accuracy of a firearm, or the force of a projectile while hope is the belief or expectation that something wished for can or will happen.

As verbs the difference between target and hope

is that target is to aim something, especially a weapon, at (a target) while hope is to want something to happen, with a sense of expectation that it might.

As a proper noun Hope is

{{given name|female|from=English}} from the virtue, like Faith and Charity first used by Puritans.

target

English

(wikipedia target)

Noun

(en 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.

A goal or objective.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-22, volume=407, issue=8841, page=70, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= Engineers of a different kind , passage=Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers.

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

* 1598 , William Shakespeare, Henry IV , Part I, Act II, Scene IV, line 200,

These four came all afront, and mainly thrust at me. I made me no more ado but took all their seven points in my target , thus.

(obsolete) A shield resembling the Roman scutum. In modern usage, a smaller variety of shield is usually implied by this term.

* 1786 , Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons , page 22,

The target or buckler was carried by the heavy armed foot, it answered to the scutum of the Romans; its form was sometimes that of a rectangular parallelogram, but more commonly had its bottom rounded off; it was generally convex, being curved in its breadth.

(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.

(cricket) the number of runs that the side batting last needs to score in the final innings in order to win

(linguistics) The tenor of a metaphor.

(translation studies) The translated version of a document, or the language into which translation occurs.

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

* {{quote-news, year=2011, date=September 2, author=Phil McNulty, work=BBC

, title= Bulgaria 0-3 England , passage=Gary Cahill, a target for Arsenal and Tottenham before the transfer window closed, put England ahead early on and Rooney was on target twice before the interval as the early hostility of the Bulgarian supporters was swiftly subdued.}}

Derived terms

* targeter * targeting

Synonyms

* See also * (translated version) target language

Coordinate terms

* (translated version) source

Verb

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

(figuratively) To aim for as an audience or demographic.

The advertising campaign targeted older women.

(computing) To produce code suitable for.

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

hope

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) hope, from (etyl) .

Noun

(uncountable) The belief or expectation that something wished for can or will happen.

* , chapter=3

, title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=My hopes wa'n't disappointed. I never saw clams thicker than they was along them inshore flats. I filled my dreener in no time, and then it come to me that 'twouldn't be a bad idee to get a lot more, take 'em with me to Wellmouth, and peddle 'em out.}}

(countable) The actual thing wished for.

(countable) A person or thing that is a source of hope.

(Christianity) The virtuous desire for future good.

* The Holy Bible, 1 Corinthians 13:13

But now abideth faith, hope , love, these three; and the greatest of these is love.

Derived terms

* Cape of Good Hope * forlorn hope * great white hope * have one's hope dashed * hope against hope * hope chest * hopeful * hopeless * hoper * hope springs eternal * no-hoper * out of hope * overhope * unhope * wanhope

Etymology 2

From (etyl) hopen, from (etyl) hopian.

Verb

(hop)

To want something to happen, with a sense of expectation that it might.

* , chapter=10

, title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=He looked round the poor room, at the distempered walls, and the bad engravings in meretricious frames, the crinkly paper and wax flowers on the chiffonier; and he thought of a room like Father Bryan's, with panelling, with cut glass, with tulips in silver pots, such a room as he had hoped to have for his own.}}

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-08, volume=407, issue=8839, page=55, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= Obama goes troll-hunting , passage=The solitary, lumbering trolls of Scandinavian mythology would sometimes be turned to stone by exposure to sunlight. Barack Obama is hoping that several measures announced on June 4th will have a similarly paralysing effect on their modern incarnation, the patent troll.}}

To be optimistic; be full of hope; have hopes.

(obsolete) To place confidence; to trust with confident expectation of good; usually followed by in .

* Bible, Psalms cxix. 81

I hope in thy word.

* Bible, Psalms xlii. 11

Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? Hope thou in God.

Usage notes

* This is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive . See

Derived terms

* hoped for

Etymology 3

Compare Icelandic word for a small bay or inlet.

Noun

(en noun)

A sloping plain between mountain ridges.

(Scotland) A small bay; an inlet; a haven.

(Jamieson)

(Webster 1913)

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