Goal
[gəʊl] or [ɡol]
Definition
(noun.) a successful attempt at scoring; 'the winning goal came with less than a minute left to play'.
(noun.) game equipment consisting of the place toward which players of a game try to advance a ball or puck in order to score points.
(noun.) the state of affairs that a plan is intended to achieve and that (when achieved) terminates behavior intended to achieve it; 'the ends justify the means'.
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Definition
(n.) The mark set to bound a race, and to or around which the constestants run, or from which they start to return to it again; the place at which a race or a journey is to end.
(n.) The final purpose or aim; the end to which a design tends, or which a person aims to reach or attain.
(n.) A base, station, or bound used in various games; in football, a line between two posts across which the ball must pass in order to score; also, the act of kicking the ball over the line between the goal posts.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Post (set to bound a race), mark.[2]. Object, end, design, destination, aim, height of one's ambition.
Editor: Pierre
Definition
n. a mark set up to bound a race: the winning-post—also the starting-post: the end aimed at: the two upright posts between which the ball is kicked in the game of football: the act of sending the ball between or over the goal-posts: an end or aim.
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Examples
- And thus young Lord Greystoke took the first step toward the goal which he had set--the finding of other white men like himself. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- Other men had worked over steamboats, but he reached the goal. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- There is no need, therefore, to generate dialectical disputes about the final goal of politics. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The pilgrims took what was left of the hallowed ruin, and we pressed on toward the goal of our crusade, renowned Jerusalem. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- They are all, however, but different routes leading to the same goal. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Life at any stage short of attainment of this goal is merely an unfolding toward it. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The Gould pool had acquired control of $10,000,000 in gold, and drove the price upward rapidly from 144 toward their goal of 200. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Now man might return to the stage-coach if that seemed to him the supreme goal of all his effort, just as anyone can follow Chesterton's advice to turn back the hands of the clock if he pleases. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- His far-distant goal was to construct a machine that would carry, not the dots and dashes of the telegraph, but the complex vibrations of the human voice. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- A point which yesterday was invisible is its goal to-day, and will be its starting point to-morrow. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The control is from behind, from the past, instead of, as in the unfolding conception, in the ultimate goal. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Night fell upon us before we reached our goal, and, almost fainting from weariness and weakness, we lay down and slept. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- The millennial goal was one thing; the immediate method quite another. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Development is conceived not as continuous growing, but as the unfolding of latent powers toward a definite goal. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- He KNEW that he had reached the goal. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- In real practice this spectacular playing with sound vibrations, as if they were lacrosse balls to toss around between the goals, could be materially simplified. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
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