Target vs Regulate - What's the difference?
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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= 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,
(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,
(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= To aim something, especially a weapon, at (a target).
(figuratively) To aim for as an audience or demographic.
(computing) To produce code suitable for.
To dictate policy.
To control or direct according to rule, principle, or law.
* Macaulay
* Bancroft
To adjust to a particular specification or requirement: regulate temperature.
To adjust (a mechanism) for accurate and proper functioning.
To put or maintain in order.
As verbs the difference between target and regulate
is that target is to aim something, especially a weapon, at (a target) while regulate is to dictate policy.As a noun 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.target
English
(wikipedia target)Noun
(en noun)Engineers of a different kind, passage=Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers.
- 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.
- 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.
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 * targetingSynonyms
* See also * (translated version) target languageCoordinate terms
* (translated version) sourceVerb
- The advertising campaign targeted older women.
- This cross-platform compiler can target any of several processors.
See also
*regulate
English
Verb
(regulat)- the laws which regulate the successions of the seasons
- The herdsmen near the frontier adjudicated their own disputes, and regulated their own police.
- to regulate a watch, i.e. adjust its rate of running so that it will keep approximately standard time
- to regulate the temperature of a room, the pressure of steam, the speed of a machine, etc.
- to regulate the disordered state of a nation or its finances
- to regulate one's eating habits