scout vs target

scout

noun
  • A person who assesses and/or recruits others; especially, one who identifies promising talent on behalf of a sports team. 

  • A fighter aircraft. 

  • Term of address for a man or boy. 

  • An act of scouting or reconnoitering. 

  • A member of any number of youth organizations belonging to the international scout movement, such as the Boy Scouts of America or Girl Scouts of the United States. 

  • A person employed to monitor rivals' activities in the petroleum industry. 

  • A fielder in a game for practice. 

  • A housekeeper or domestic cleaner, generally female, employed by one of the constituent colleges of Oxford University to clean rooms; generally equivalent to a modern bedder at Cambridge University. 

  • A preliminary image that allows the technician to make adjustments before the actual diagnostic images. 

  • The guillemot. 

  • A domestic servant, generally male, who would attend (usually several) students in a variety of ways, including cleaning; generally equivalent to a gyp at Cambridge University or a skip at Trinity College, Dublin. 

  • A person sent out to gain and bring in tidings; especially, one employed in war to gain information about the enemy and ground. 

verb
  • To reject with contempt. 

  • To scoff. 

  • To pour forth a liquid forcibly, especially excrement. 

  • To explore a wide terrain, as if on a search. 

  • To observe, watch, or look for, as a scout; to follow for the purpose of observation, as a scout. 

target

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

  • A conspicuous disk attached to a switch lever to show its position, or for use as a signal. 

  • A bearing representing a buckler. 

  • The translated version of a document, or the language into which translation occurs. 

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

  • The pattern or arrangement of a series of hits made by a marksman on a butt or mark. 

  • A butt or mark to shoot at, as for practice, or to test the accuracy of a firearm, or the force of a projectile. 

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

  • An object of criticism or ridicule. 

  • A goal or objective. 

  • The tenor of a metaphor. 

  • A person, place, or thing that is frequently attacked, criticized, or ridiculed. 

  • The sliding crosspiece, or vane, on a leveling staff. 

verb
  • To aim for as an audience or demographic. 

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

  • To produce code suitable for. 

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