goal
See also: Goal
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EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Middle English gol (“boundary, limit”), from Old English *gāl (“obstacle, barrier, marker”), suggested by its derivative Old English gǣlan (“to hinder, delay, impede, keep in suspense, linger, hesitate, dupe”), and Old English hesitating, slow, sluggish. Possibly cognate with Lithuanian gãlas (“end”), Latvian gals (“end”), Old Prussian gallan (“death”), Albanian ngalem (“to be limping, lame, paralyzed”), ngel (“to remain, linger, hesitate, get stuck”).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
goal (plural goals)
- A result that one is attempting to achieve.
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My lifelong goal is to get into a Hollywood movie.
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She failed in her goal to become captain of the team.
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2013 November 2, “A shrinking slice”, in The Economist, volume 409, number 8860:
- The goal should be to strengthen workers without hamstringing firms. Growth, rather than employment protection, is the priority. More work means a stronger labour market, which would bid up employees’ slice, as it did in America in the 1990s when unemployment was at record lows.
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- In many sports, an area into which the players attempt to put an object.
- The act of placing the object into the goal.
- A point scored in a game as a result of placing the object into the goal.
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2011 April 15, Saj Chowdhury, “Norwich 2-1 Nott'm Forest”, in BBC Sport:
- The former Forest man, who passed a late fitness test, appeared to use Guy Moussi for leverage before nodding in David Fox's free-kick at the far post - his 22nd goal of the season.
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- 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. Also called a patient, target, or undergoer.
SynonymsEdit
- (a result one is attempting to achieve:) ambition, object of desire, objective, purpose, aspiration
- See also Wikisaurus:goal
Derived termsEdit
Look at pages starting with goal.
- goalball
- goal difference
- goalie
- goalkeeper
- goalgetter
- goalpost
- goaltender
- goal umpire
- golden goal
- silver goal
- subgoal
TranslationsEdit
result one is attempting to achieve
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in many sports, an area into which the players attempt to put an object
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(sport) act of placing the object into the goal
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point(s) scored
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VerbEdit
goal (third-person singular simple present goals, present participle goaling, simple past and past participle goaled)
AnagramsEdit
DutchEdit
PronunciationEdit
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Audio (file)
EtymologyEdit
English, see above
NounEdit
goal m (plural goals, diminutive goaltje n)
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FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from English goal.
PronunciationEdit
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audio (file)
NounEdit
goal m (plural goals)
- goalkeeper especially in soccer and polo
- (rare) target in those sports
SynonymsEdit
- (goalkeeper) gardien de but, gardien m, portier m
- (target) but m
AnagramsEdit
Further readingEdit
- “goal” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
ItalianEdit
ManxEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old Irish Gall (“Gaul, Scandinavian, Anglo-Norman, foreigner”).
NounEdit
goal m (genitive singular goal, plural goallyn or goaldee)
MutationEdit
| Manx mutation | ||
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| goal | ghoal | ngoal |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
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