What's the difference between projectile and target?

Projectile


Definition:

  • (a.) Projecting or impelling forward; as, a projectile force.
  • (a.) Caused or imparted by impulse or projection; impelled forward; as, projectile motion.
  • (n.) A body projected, or impelled forward, by force; especially, a missile adapted to be shot from a firearm.
  • (n.) A part of mechanics which treats of the motion, range, time of flight, etc., of bodies thrown or driven through the air by an impelling force.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Motor axons possessed elongate, irregularly shaped boutons en passant and morphologically variable boutons terminaux; the latter included huge endings with knobbed projectiles arising from thick collaterals, or smaller, round boutons from thin collaterals.
  • (2) The drug was administered from a distance by means of a projectile syringe shot from a special rifle.
  • (3) The bomb – known as an explosively formed projectile – is similar to devices used by Islamic insurgents to kill British and US troops in Afghanistan and Iraq, according to the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI).
  • (4) 223 of the Austrian army serves to demonstrate and discuss the wound ballistic effects in relation to the altered behaviour of the projectile.
  • (5) A 5-year-old boy presented with a 7-month history of headache and projectile vomiting.
  • (6) As rioters continued to torch vehicles and stone police lines several officers were injured by projectiles.
  • (7) Young people kept throwing rocks at police; the police fired projectiles.
  • (8) As friends start preparing for baby number two, I remember the sleepless nights, the toxic nappies and the projectile vomiting phase, and I'm fairly sure we've made the right decision.
  • (9) Asked to clarify Belmar’s remarks, Officer Brian Schellman, a spokesman for the county force, said in an email: “The Chief said we did not use rubber bullets, which are large rubber projectiles shot from the barrel of a firearm, which we did not use.
  • (10) (1) In sections showing no atherosclerotic changes, projectiles from hand weapons and from .22 calibre rimfire rifles leave remarkably small holes (comparable to the orifices of the intercostal arteries); in areas with sclerotic plaques the bullet holes are considerably larger.
  • (11) This initial study suggests that low- and high-velocity projectiles produce different types of tissue debris, with much more fragmentation and scarcity of cellular components in the high-velocity rounds.
  • (12) For fixed-diameter projectiles, very slow and high velocities produced minimal abrasion width.
  • (13) This calculation assumes that the nuclear interactions of the incident particles lead to a secondary particle with the velocity of the incident projectile at the interaction point moving in the direction of the incident projectile.
  • (14) An ambulance arrived at SMC hospital with penetrating damage from what seemed to be a large projectile.
  • (15) The solvent characteristics of synovial fluid and associated local arthritis are apparently important factors in the dissolution and absorption of lead from projectiles located in joints.
  • (16) Shami said rebels still had "secret lines" that allowed in food and weapons, and that they were making some projectiles in rudimentary workshops within the neighbourhood.
  • (17) The effects of the two projectiles at 7.7'' twist were found similar in soap; the SS 109 produced more tissue damage than the M 193 missile.
  • (18) The authors reconstruct this evolutionary process as a series of "bifurcation points" of either constraints or opportunities forming a sequence of preconditions for the formation of a high-speed projectile tongue characteristic of tropical salamanders.
  • (19) This article was amended on 21 November 2016 to clarify that Sophia Wilansky’s father told the Guardian that she was injured by a projectile, which North Dakota law enforcement denies.
  • (20) The women were killed by automatic rifle fire and grenades, and the bodies of the two men were blown up by a hand rocket-launcher projectiles.

Target


Definition:

  • (n.) A kind of small shield or buckler, used as a defensive weapon in war.
  • (n.) A butt or mark to shoot at, as for practice, or to test the accuracy of a firearm, or the force of a projectile.
  • (n.) The pattern or arrangement of a series of hits made by a marksman on a butt or mark; as, he made a good target.
  • (n.) The sliding crosspiece, or vane, on a leveling staff.
  • (n.) A conspicuous disk attached to a switch lever to show its position, or for use as a signal.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The resulting dose distribution is displayed using traditional 2-dimensional displays or as an isodose surface composited with underlying anatomy and the target volume.
  • (2) The hypothesis that proteins are critical targets in free radical mediated cytolysis was tested using U937 mononuclear phagocytes as targets and iron together with hydrogen peroxide to generate radicals.
  • (3) The fraction of the viral dose which became cell associated was independent of the incubation temperature and increased with increasing target membrane concentration.
  • (4) The binding properties of formalin-fixed amelanotic melanoma cells were not identical to those of endothelial or unfixed target cells.
  • (5) It has been generally believed that the ligand-binding of steroid hormone receptors triggers an allosteric change in receptor structure, manifested by an increased affinity of the receptor for DNA in vitro and nuclear target elements in vivo, as monitored by nuclear translocation.
  • (6) We sought additional evidence for an inverse relationship between functional CTL-target cell affinity on the one hand, and susceptibility of the CTL-mediated killing to inhibition by alpha LFA-1 and alpha Lyt-2,3 monoclonal antibodies on the other hand.
  • (7) After midazolam infusion, there was a 50% decrease in amplitude of P3 in response to target tones (P less than 0.006), whereas N3 latency increased by 40 ms (P less than 0.05).
  • (8) In the absence of an authentic target for the MASH proteins, we examined their DNA binding and transcriptional regulatory activity by using a binding site (the E box) from the muscle creatine kinase (MCK) gene, a target of MyoD.
  • (9) Despite a 10-year deadline to have the same number of ethnic minority officers in the ranks as in the populations they serve, the target was missed and police are thousands of officers short.
  • (10) A 24-h test trial employing a dry target demonstrated a robust memory for the training manifested in passive avoidance behavior.
  • (11) For related pairs, both the primes (first pictures) and targets (second pictures) varied in rated "typicality" (Rosch, 1975), being either typical or relatively atypical members of their primary superordinate category.
  • (12) The following conclusions emerge: (i) when the 3' or the 3' penultimate base of the oligonucleotide mismatched an allele, no amplification product could be detected; (ii) when the mismatches were 3 and 4 bases from the 3' end of the primer, differential amplification was still observed, but only at certain concentrations of magnesium chloride; (iii) the mismatched allele can be detected in the presence of a 40-fold excess of the matched allele; (iv) primers as short as 13 nucleotides were effective; and (v) the specificity of the amplification could be overwhelmed by greatly increasing the concentration of target DNA.
  • (13) Charge data from the target hospital showed a statistically significant reduction in laboratory charges per patient in the quarter following program initiation (P = 0.02) and no evidence for change in a group of five comparison hospitals.
  • (14) Consequently, it is important to predict accurately dose for such fields to ensure adequate coverage of the target region and sparing of healthy tissues.
  • (15) Three effector: target ratios (6.2:1, 25:1, and 50:1) were studied in quadruplicate using 3, 4 and 5-h incubations.
  • (16) It is proposed that microoscillations of the eye increase the threshold for detection of retinal target displacements, leading to less efficient lateral sway stabilization than expected, and that the threshold for detection of self motion in the A-P direction is lower than the threshold for object motion detection used in the calculations, leading to more efficient stabilization of A-P sway.
  • (17) However, since these levels were unaltered by reducing the antiandrogen dosage, the main action of the therapy is probably that of the antiandrogen within the target cells.
  • (18) We are pleased to see the process moving forward and look forward to its resolution,” a Target spokeswoman, Molly Snyder, said in an emailed statement.
  • (19) The matter is now in the hands of the Guernsey police and the law officers.” One resident who is a constant target of the paper and has complained to police, Rosie Guille, said the allegations had a “huge impact on morale” on the island.
  • (20) This article describes a method of selecting a potentially successful strategy using a combination of two factors: change target and level of change willingness and ability.