purpose
/ˈpɝ.pəs/ sustantivo A2En español: propósito, decisión, determinación, resolución
- The end for which something is done, is made or exists. · What is the purpose of your visit?· The device can be used for both civilian and military purposes.
- Function, role. · The exceptionally small gate-leg table served the purpose of a tea table admirably.
- meaning for existing or doing something.
- Resolution; determination.
Plural purposes
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Nichols was in Meryton last night: I saw her passing by, and went out myself on purpose to know the truth of it; and she told me that it was certainly true.
She was going to the butcher’s, she told me, on purpose to order in some meat on Wednesday, and she has got three couple of ducks just fit to be killed.”
For this purpose she jumped upon a peg, and suspending herself from it, pretended to be dead.
Morrel, as, on his return to the port for the purpose of gleaning fresh tidings of Dantès, from M.
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