Target vs Expect - 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.
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, 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 look for (mentally); to look forward to, as to something that is believed to be about to happen or come; to have a previous apprehension of, whether of good or evil; to look for with some confidence; to anticipate; -- often followed by an infinitive, sometimes by a clause (with, or without, that).
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, title= To consider obligatory or required.
To consider reasonably due.
To be pregnant, to consider a baby due.
(obsolete) To wait for; to await.
* (rfdate) (William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616):
*1825 , (Walter Scott), , A. and C. Black (1868), 24-25:
(obsolete) To wait; to stay.
As verbs the difference between target and expect
is that target is to aim something, especially a weapon, at (a target) while expect is to look for (mentally); to look forward to, as to something that is believed to be about to happen or come; to have a previous apprehension of, whether of good or evil; to look for with some confidence; to anticipate; -- often followed by an infinitive, sometimes by a clause (with, or without, that).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
*expect
English
(Webster 1913)Verb
(en verb)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=“[…] They talk of you as if you were Croesus—and I expect the beggars sponge on you unconscionably.” And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances. He spoke with extreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes.}}
- Let's in, and there expect their coming.
- The knight fixed his eyes on the opening with breathless anxiety, and continuing to kneel in the attitude of devotion which the place and scene required, expected the consequence of these preparations.
- (Sandys)