Target vs Use - What's the difference?

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Target is a related term of use.

As verbs the difference between target and use

is that target is to aim something, especially a weapon, at (a target) while use is .

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)

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.

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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.

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, 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.

use

English

(wikipedia use)

Alternative forms

* (archaic)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) from Old English nytt.

Noun

(en noun)

The act of using.

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Usefulness, benefit.

* Milton

God made two great lights, great for their use / To man.

* Alexander Pope

'Tis use alone that sanctifies expense.

A function; a purpose for which something may be employed.

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Occasion or need to employ; necessity.

I have no further use for these textbooks.

(obsolete, rare) Interest for lent money; premium paid for the use of something; usury.

* 1599 , (William Shakespeare), (Much Ado About Nothing) ,

DON PEDRO. Come, lady, come; you have lost the heart of Signior Benedick.

BEATRICE. Indeed, my lord, he lent it me awhile; and I gave him use for it, a double heart for a single one: [...]

* Jeremy Taylor

Thou art more obliged to pay duty and tribute, use and principal, to him.

(archaic) Continued or repeated practice; usage; habit.

* Spenser

Let later age that noble use envy.

* Shakespeare

How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable, / Seem to me all the uses of this world!

(obsolete) Common occurrence; ordinary experience.

* Shakespeare

O Caesar! these things are beyond all use .

(religion) The special form of ritual adopted for use in any diocese.

the Sarum, or Canterbury, use'''; the Hereford '''use'''; the York '''use'''; the Roman '''use ; etc.

* Book of Common Prayer

From henceforth all the whole realm shall have but one use .

(forging) A slab of iron welded to the side of a forging, such as a shaft, near the end, and afterward drawn down, by hammering, so as to lengthen the forging.

Synonyms

* (act of using) employment, usage, note, nait * (usefulness) benefit, good, point, usefulness, utility, note, nait

Derived terms

* disuse * fair use * hyper-use * misuse * no use * overuse * reuse * underuse * useful * useless * usement * what’s the use

Etymology 2

From (etyl) ).

Verb

(us)

(archaic) To accustom; to habituate.

*(John Milton) (1608–1674)

*:Thou with thy compeers, / Used to the yoke, draw'st his triumphant wheels.

To employ; to apply; to utilize.

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To exhaust the supply of; to consume by employing

To exploit.

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(dated) To behave toward; to act with regard to; to treat.

*(John Milton) (1608–1674)

*:How wouldst thou use me now?

*(Joseph Addison) (1672–1719)

*:Cato has used me ill.

To habitually do; to be wont to do.

*Bible, 1 (w) iv.9

*:Use hospitality one to another.

*, I.48:

*:Peter Pol'', doctor in divinitie used to sit upon his mule, who as ''Monstrelet'' reporteth, was wont to ride up and downe the streets of ''Paris , ever sitting sideling, as women use .

* 1693 , Sir Norman Knatchbull, Annotations upon some difficult texts in all the books of the New Testament

For in the Rites of funeration they did use to anoint the dead body, with Aromatick Spices and Oyntments, before they buried them.

(past tense with infinitive) To habitually do. See used to.

Synonyms

* engage, utilise * (exploit) take advantage of

Derived terms

* abuse * disuse * reuse * misuse * usability * usable * usage * used * used to * useful * user

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