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noun

Goal n.

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."

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."

3.

A base, station, or bound used in various games as the point or object which a team must reach in order to score points; in certain games, the point which the ball or puck must pass in order for points to be scored. In football, it is a line between two posts across which the ball must pass in order to score points; in soccer or ice hockey, it is a net at each end of the soccer field into which the soccer ball or hocjey puck must be propelled; in basketball, it is the basket (7) suspended from the backboard, through which the basketball must pass.

4.

(Sport) The act or instance of propelling the ball or puck into or through the goal (3), thus scoring points; as, to score a goal.

Goal keeper, (Sport) the player charged with the defense of the goal, such as in soccer or ice hockey.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Goal" Quotes from Famous Books

... man as I did was exactly a 'stranger' to him. And then, twice as suddenly, to great, grown-up, cool-blooded, money-staled, book-tamed me—it swept over me like a cyclone that I should never be able to decide anything more in all my life—not the width of a tinsel ribbon, not the goal of a journey, not the worth of a lover—until I'd seen the Face that belonged to the Voice in ...

— The Indiscreet Letter • Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

... some reason or other the stairs thenceforward remained more perfect. Only they seemed almost endless, and before we reached our goal I calculated that we must have descended quite twelve hundred feet into the bowels of the rock. At length, when I was almost tired out and Maqueda was so breathless that she was obliged to lean on ...

— Queen Sheba's Ring • H. Rider Haggard

... implore you, Socrates, said Glaucon, not to turn away just as you are reaching the goal; if you will only give such an explanation of the good as you have already given of justice and temperance and the other virtues, we shall ...

— The Republic • Plato

... Narration. So that they set the audience, as it were, at the post where the race is to be concluded: and, saving them the tedious expectation of seeing the Poet set out and ride the beginning of the course; you behold him not, till he is in sight of the goal, ...

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... your opinions, Philippe. There are even some that terrify me ... especially those which I do not know, but which I half suspect. But, whatever the goal to which you are leading us, I will walk to it with ...

— The Frontier • Maurice LeBlanc

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