to hit the target
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3.5
- phrasal verb
:
alcanzar el objetivo
- The archer aimed carefully and managed to hit the target with his first arrow.
- actually hit the target
- still hit the target
- aim and hit the target
All right, shots fired, shots hit the target.
- All right, shots fired, shots hit the target.
- And the way I remember him telling it was, you know, his his flight lead, you know, rolls in, hits the target and he comes in, hits the target.
- The fact that the Earth rotates, you will not hit the target if you don't account for effects that are caused by the Earth's rotation.
- Is there some kind of things along the lines of like fits law where you should move the mouse in a certain kind of way that maximizes your chance to hit the target?
- It'll let you learn from your customers how close or far you are from hitting the target to success, right?
- And when you you got to run shoot and you got to have so many, so many rounds off hit the target in limited amount of time, second and a half.
Examples
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My pilots only hit the target 30% of the time.
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Many of them were able to hit the target and pass correctly.
Academic text (2005) -
Whatever you do, hit the target.
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I went over and hit the target.
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Come on, hit the target.
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Statistically speaking, you should have hit the target at least once by now.
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He figured out how to hit the target
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"Jesse obeyed, and his shots began to hit the target, although erratically."
Fiction book (1994) -
For example, technology is not required to assess whether the ball hit the target or not, but it does reveal student learning of proper mechanics in throwing.
Academic text (2008) -
He hit the target!
Synonyms
846
2.0
To reach a goal after trying hard
553
2.4
To hit someone or something with force
1
5.1
Do exactly what you intend
To do something exactly right
Antonyms
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'to strike the intended object or to achieve an intended goal' is directly and predictably composed from 'hit' (to strike/achieve) and 'target' (an intended objective); the definite article does not alter the compositional relation. This literal/metaphorical mapping is cross-linguistically common and follows standard verb + object semantics, so a B1 learner who knows the constituents would readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
The phrase hit the target comes from archery and shooting, where you try to hit the round target in the middle. So, hit the target now means 'to succeed' or 'to reach a goal'.