goal
/ɡoʊl/ noun A1- A result that one is attempting to achieve. · My lifelong goal is to get into a Hollywood movie.· His goal is to become a YouTuber.
- In many sports, an area into which the players attempt to put an object. · The racers are approaching the goal.· fans behind the goal
- The act of placing the object into the goal. · miss a goal· concede a goal
- A point scored in a game as a result of placing the object into the goal. · score a goal
- A noun or noun phrase that receives the action of a verb.
- The subject of a passive verb or the direct object of an active verb.
Plural goals
From the library
A HARE one day ridiculed the short feet and slow pace of the Tortoise, who replied, laughing: “Though you be swift as the wind, I will beat you in a race.” The Hare, believing her assertion to be simply impossible, assented to the proposal; and they agreed that the Fox should choose the course and fix the goal.
At last waking up, and moving as fast as he could, he saw the Tortoise had reached the goal, and was comfortably dozing after her fatigue.
For my own part, I had followed step by step the methods by which he had traced the various windings of this complex case, and, though I could not yet perceive the goal which we would reach, I understood clearly that Holmes expected this grotesque criminal to make an attempt upon the two remaining busts, one of which, I remembered, was at Chiswick.
Oxford won by a goal and two tries.
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