Purpose
['pɜːpəs] or ['pɝpəs]
Definition
(noun.) an anticipated outcome that is intended or that guides your planned actions; 'his intent was to provide a new translation'; 'good intentions are not enough'; 'it was created with the conscious aim of answering immediate needs'; 'he made no secret of his designs'.
(verb.) reach a decision; 'he resolved never to drink again'.
Checker: Shelia--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) That which a person sets before himself as an object to be reached or accomplished; the end or aim to which the view is directed in any plan, measure, or exertion; view; aim; design; intention; plan.
(n.) Proposal to another; discourse.
(n.) Instance; example.
(v. t.) To set forth; to bring forward.
(v. t.) To propose, as an aim, to one's self; to determine upon, as some end or object to be accomplished; to intend; to design; to resolve; -- often followed by an infinitive or dependent clause.
(v. i.) To have a purpose or intention; to discourse.
Typist: Shelley
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Aim, intent, intention, design, object, end, drift, view, final cause.
v. a. Intend, design, mean, meditate, think of, have in mind, resolve upon, propose to one's self.
v. n. Intend, design, mean, have in mind.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Intend, determine, design, resolve, mean, propose
ANT:Chance, risk, hazard, revoke, Miscalculate, venture, stake
SYN:Intention, design, mind, meaning, view, object, aim, end, scope, point,resolve
ANT:Chance, fortune, fate, accident, hazard, lot, casualty, lottery, hit
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Definition
v.t. to intend (often followed by an infinitive or participial clause as its object).—v.i. to have an intention: (Spens.) to discourse.—adj. Pur′poseful having an object: full of meaning.—adv. Pur′posefully.—n. Pur′posefulness.—adj. Pur′poseless without purpose or effect: aimless.—adv. Pur′poselessly.—n. Pur′poselessness.—adj. Pur′pose-like having a definite purpose: having the appearance of being fit for a purpose.—adv. Pur′posely with purpose: intentionally.—n. Pur′poser.—adj. Pur′posive having an aim: (biol.) functional.—n. Pur′posiveness.
n. idea or aim kept before the mind as the end of effort: aim intention: effect: (Spens.) conversation: (pl.) a sort of conversational game.—Of or On purpose with design intentionally; To the purpose to the point or material to the question.
Typist: Tito
Examples
- Come, come, I'll write you a cheque,' said the little man; and down he sat at the table for that purpose. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- This purpose continued as you wove it? Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- It was now reduced and confined to the original purpose of its institution. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The boy gathers up his change and has pulled the door open by a leather strap nailed to it for the purpose, when Venus cries out: 'Stop him! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- M. Le Gray, of Paris, was the first to suggest collodion for this purpose, but Mr. Scott Archer, of London, in 1851, was the first to carry it out practically. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The Indians are dexterous in contrivances for that purpose, which we had not. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- When the purpose of the activity is restricted to ascertaining these qualities, the resulting knowledge is only technical. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- From him the poor may learn to acquire wealth, and the rich to adapt it to the purposes of beneficence. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- The shortness of the mercury column as compared with that of water makes the mercury more convenient for both experimental and practical purposes. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Glass thermometers of the above type are the ones most generally used, but there are many different types for special purposes. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- For blasting purposes also it presents the promise of possible utilization. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Now the operator has to adjust himself to his machine, instead of his tool to his own purposes. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Whatever natural science may be for the specialist, for educational purposes it is knowledge of the conditions of human action. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- For ordinary draught purposes, as in the quotation from the _Iliad_ we have just made, oxen were employed. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I read with my watch upon the table, purposing to close my book at eleven o'clock. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- After our early dinner, I strolled out alone, purposing to finish off the marshes at once, and get them done with. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- As I sat solitary, purposing to adjourn to the garden and leave the coast clear, but too listless to fulfil my own intent, I heard the workmen coming. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- They purposed remaining in London only three days, prior to departing for some weeks to a distant part of the coast. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- No maiden, said Bois-Guilbert, this was NOT all that I purposed. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- I think he had purposed on that day to indicate the origin of his endeavours, and the aim of his ambition. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- It was, that he purposed first seeing Mrs. Steerforth. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Like March, having come in like a lion, he purposed to go out like a lamb. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
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