Target vs Dream - 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.
Imaginary events seen in the mind while sleeping.
* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)
* (Lord Byron) (1788-1824)
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A hope or wish.
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* (Martin Luther King)
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, title= A visionary scheme; a wild conceit; an idle fancy.
* (Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
* (w) (1819-1885)
(lb) To see imaginary events in one's mind while sleeping.
(lb) To hope, to wish.
(lb) To daydream.
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(lb) To envision as an imaginary experience (usually when asleep).
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*(and other bibliographic particulars) (Cowper)
*:And still they dream that they shall still succeed.
*(and other bibliographic particulars) (Dryden)
*:At length in sleep their bodies they compose, / And dreamt the future fight, and early rose.
(lb) To consider the possibility (of).
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*1599-1602 , (William Shakespeare), (Hamlet) , Act I scene 5, lines 167-8
*:There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, / Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
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*:But then I had the [massive] flintlock by me for protection. ¶, and a 'bead' could be drawn upon Molly, the dairymaid, kissing the fogger behind the hedge, little dreaming that the deadly tube was levelled at them.
As nouns the difference between target and dream
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 dream is imaginary events seen in the mind while sleeping.As verbs the difference between target and dream
is that target is to aim something, especially a weapon, at (a target) while dream is (lb) to see imaginary events in one's mind while sleeping.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
*dream
English
(wikipedia dream)Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) . The derivation from Old English dr?am'' is controversial, since the word itself is only attested in writing in its meaning of “joy, mirth, musical sound”. Possibly there was a separate word ''dr?am meaning “images seen while sleeping”, which was avoided in literature due to potential confusion with “joy” sense, which would account for the common definition in the other Germanic languages, or the derivation may indeed simply be a strange progression from “mirth, joy, musical sound”.. Attested words for “sleeping vision” in Old English were . The verb is from (etyl) (m), possibly (see above) from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- Dreams are but interludes which fancy makes.
- I had a dream' which was not all a ' dream .
- She wakened in sharp panic, bewildered by the grotesquerie of some half-remembered dream in contrast with the harshness of inclement fact, drowsily realising that since she had fallen asleep it had come on to rain smartly out of a shrouded sky.
- So this was my future home, I thought!Backed by towering hills, the but faintly discernible purple line of the French boundary off to the southwest, a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams .
- I have a dream' that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character. I have a ' dream today!
TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “I Love Lisa” (season 4, episode 15; originally aired 02/11/1993), passage=Ralph Wiggum is generally employed as a bottomless fount of glorious non sequiturs, but in “I Love Lisa” he stands in for every oblivious chump who ever deluded himself into thinking that with persistence, determination, and a pure heart he can win the girl of his dreams .}}
- There sober thought pursued the amusing theme, / Till Fancy coloured it and formed a dream .
- It is not to them a mere dream , but a very real aim which they propose.
