Mark
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To indicate in some way for later reference. To take note of. To blemish, scratch, or stain. To indicate the correctness of and give a score to an essay, exam answers, etc. To catch the ball directly from a kick of 15 metres or more without having been touched in transit, resulting in a free kick. To follow a player not in possession of the ball when defending, to prevent them receiving a pass easily.
Part of speech: noun
Definition: boundary, land in a boundary # A boundary; a border or frontier. # A boundary-post or fence. # A stone or post used to indicate position and guide travellers. #* 1859, Henry Bull, A history, military and municipal, of the ancient borough of the Devizes: #*: I do remember a great thron in Yatton field near Bristow-way, against which Sir William Waller's men made a great fire and killed it. I think the stump remains, and was a mark for travellers. # A type of small region or principality. #* 1954, JRR Tolkien, The Two Towers: #*: There dwells Théoden son of Thengel, King of the Mark of Rohan. # A common, or area of common land, especially among early Germanic peoples. characteristic, sign, visible impression # An omen; a symptomatic indicator of something. #* 1813, Jane Austen, Pride And Prejudice: #*: depend upon it, you will speedily receive from me a letter of thanks for this as well as for every other mark of your regard during my stay in Hertfordshire. # A characteristic feature. #: A good sense of manners is the mark of a true gentleman. # A visible impression or sign; a blemish, scratch, or stain, whether accidental or intentional. #* 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula: #*: Then she put before her face her poor crushed hands, which bore on their whiteness the red mark of the Count's terrible grip [...]. # A sign or brand on a person. #: The Antichrist will show the mark of the beast. # A written character or sign. #: The font wasn't able to render all the diacritical marks properly. # A stamp or other indication of provenance, quality etc. #: With eggs, you need to check for the quality mark before you buy. # Resemblance, likeness, image. #* ca. 1380, Geoffrey Chaucer, ‘The Franklin's Tale', Canterbury Tales: #*: Which mankynde is so fair part of thy werk / That thou it madest lyk to thyn owene merk. # A particular design or make of an item . #: Presenting...my patented travelator, mark two. # A score for finding the correct answer, or other academic achievement; the sum of such point gained as out of a possible total. #: What mark did you get in your history test? indicator of position, objective etc. # A target for shooting at with a projectile. #* 1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 37: #*: To give them an accurate eye and strength of arm, none under twenty-four years of age might shoot at any standing mark, except it was for a rover, and then he was to change his mark at every shot; and no person above that age might shoot at any mark whose distance was less than eleven score yards. # An indication or sign used for reference or measurement. #: I filled the bottle up to the 500ml mark. # The target or intended victim of a swindle, fixed game or con game. # The female genitals. #* 1596, William Shakespeare, Love's Labours Lost, I.4: #*: A mark saies my Lady. Let the mark haue a prick in't, to meate at, if it may be. # A catch of the ball directly from a kick of 10 metres or more without having been touched in transit, resulting in a free kick. # The line indicating an athlete's starting-point. # A score for a sporting achievement. # A specified level on a scale denoting gas-powered oven temperatures. #: Now put the pastry in at 450 degrees, or mark 8. attention # Attention, notice. #: His last comment is particularly worth of mark. # Importance, noteworthiness. (Generally in postmodifier "of mark".) #* 1909, Richard Burton, Masters of the English Novel: #*: in the short story of western flavor he was a pioneer of mark, the founder of a genre: probably no other writer is so significant in his field. A measure of weight (especially for gold and silver), once used throughout Europe, equivalent to 8 oz. An English and Scottish unit of currency (originally valued at one mark weight of silver), equivalent to 13 shillings and fourpence. Any of various European monetary units, especially the base unit of currency of Germany between 1948 and 2002, equal to 100 pfennigs. A mark coin.
Example sentence: The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.
Target
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To aim something, especially a weapon, at (a target).To aim for as an audience or demographic.
Part of speech: noun
Definition: 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.A kind of small shield or buckler, used as a defensive weapon in war.A shield resembling the Roman scutum. In modern usage, a smaller variety of shield is usually implied by this term.The pattern or arrangement of a series of hits made by a marksman on a butt or mark.The sliding crosspiece, or vane, on a leveling staff.A conspicuous disk attached to a switch lever to show its position, or for use as a signal.the number of runs that the side batting last needs to score in the final innings in order to winThe tenor of a metaphor.The translated version of a document, or the language into which translation occurs.
Example sentence: If you don't really have a dream, you can't really push yourself; you don't really know what the target is.