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Goal   /goʊl/   Listen
Goal

noun
1.
The state of affairs that a plan is intended to achieve and that (when achieved) terminates behavior intended to achieve it.  Synonym: end.
2.
The place designated as the end (as of a race or journey).  Synonyms: destination, finish.  "He was nearly exhausted as their destination came into view"
3.
Game equipment consisting of the place toward which players of a game try to advance a ball or puck in order to score points.
4.
A successful attempt at scoring.



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"Goal" Quotes from Famous Books



... see, we can build no happiness on the sorrows of others; so we must part. That's the only way to lessen his sufferings. I have my child, who'll fill my life for me; and you have the great goal ...
— The Road to Damascus - A Trilogy • August Strindberg
... but I had a vision ever present to me of the long, long roads, up hill and down dale, and a pair of figures ever infinitesimally moving, foot by foot, a yard to the minute, and, like things enchanted in a nightmare, approaching no nearer to the goal. ...
— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition - Vol. 1 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson
... physically, he was listening to lectures from the psychologists or from Colonel Mannheim—laying plans and considering possibilities for the one great goal that seemed to be the focal point ...
— Anything You Can Do ... • Gordon Randall Garrett
... by hour, the aspect of the scene changes, and this instability is exhibited by the most essential parts no less than by the accessory parts. One would say that nature feels her way, and only reaches the goal after many times missing the path' (on dirait que la nature tatonne et ne conduit son oeuvre a bon fin, qu'apres ...
— Evolution, Old & New - Or, the Theories of Buffon, Dr. Erasmus Darwin and Lamarck, - as compared with that of Charles Darwin • Samuel Butler
... Mr. Lenox. "Dick, you young fool, the ideal woman is the goal toward which the rest of humanity must run; and the sooner you bend all your practical faculties in that direction, and there abase the knee, the ...
— Jewel Weed • Alice Ames Winter


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