Meaning of GOAL
| Pronunciation: | | gowl
|
 WordNet Dictionary |
| |
| | Definition: | |
- [n] a successful attempt at scoring; "the winning goal came with less than a minute left to play"
- [n] game equipment consisting of the place toward which players of a game try to advance a ball or puck in order to score points
- [n] 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"
- [n] the place designated as the end (as of a race or journey); "a crowd assembled at the finish"; "he was nearly exhuasted as their destination came into view"
|
| |
| | Sponsored Links: | |
|
| |
| | Synonyms: | | destination, end, finish |
| |
| | See Also: | | aim, bar, basket, basketball hoop, bourn, bourne, cognitive content, content, design, destination, end, end-all, finish line, finishing line, game equipment, goalpost, hoop, intent, intention, mental object, net, no-goal, object, objective, own goal, plan of action, purpose, score, target, terminus | |
| Products Dictionary |
| |
| | Definition: | |  Goal
Larger-than-life pastel illustrations and poetic text describe the drama, tension, and excitement of a fast-paced game of soccer. By the creators of Hoops. 15,000 first printing. more details ... |
| |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
| |
| | Definition: | | \Goal\, n. [F. gaule pole, Prov. F. waule, of German
origin; cf. Fries. walu staff, stick, rod, Goth. walus, Icel.
v["o]lr a round stick; prob. akin to E. wale.]
1. 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.
Part curb their fiery steeds, or shun the goal With
rapid wheels. --Milton.
2. The final purpose or aim; the end to which a design tends,
or which a person aims to reach or attain.
Each individual seeks a several goal. --Pope.
3. 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.
{Goal keeper}, the player charged with the defense of the
goal.
|
| |
| Computing Dictionary |
| |
| | Definition: | | In logic programming, a predicate applied to its arguments which the system attempts to prove by matching it against the clauses of the program. A goal may fail or it may succeed in one or more ways. |
| |
| Thesaurus Terms |
| |
| | Related Terms: | | aim, ambition, anchorage, apodosis, aspiration, basis, bourn, butt, by-end, by-purpose, calling, catastrophe, cause, ceasing, cessation, coda, conclusion, consideration, consummation, crack of doom, culmination, curtain, curtains, death, decease, denouement, destination, destiny, doom, duty, effect, end, end in view, end point, ending, envoi, epilogue, eschatology, expiration, fate, final cause, final solution, final twitch, final words, finale, finality, finis, finish, function, game, grand slam, ground, guiding light, guiding star, harbor, haven, hit, hole, hole in one, home run, homer, ideal, inspiration, intention, izzard, last, last breath, last gasp, last stop, last things, last trumpet, last words, latter end, lodestar, mainspring, mark, matter, motive, object, object in mind, objective, omega, payoff, period, peroration, port, prey, principle, purpose, pursuit, quarry, quietus, quintain, reason, reason for being, resolution, resting place, sake, score, slam, source, spring, stop, stoppage, stopping place, strike, swan song, target, teleology, term, terminal, terminal point, termination, terminus, touchdown, ulterior motive, ultimate aim, use, vocation, windup, Z |
| |
|
|
|