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goal

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EnglishEdit

 
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EtymologyEdit

From Middle English gol (“boundary, limit”), from Old English *gāl (“obstacle, barrier, marker”), suggested by its derivatives Old English gǣlan (“to hinder, delay, impede, keep in suspense, linger, hesitate, dupe”), and hyġegǣls (“hesitating, slow, sluggish”), hyġegǣlsa (“slow one, sluggish one”). 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”).

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goal (plural goals)

  1. A result that one is attempting to achieve.
    My lifelong goal is to get into a Hollywood movie.
    She failed in her goal to become captain of the team.
    • 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.
  2. In many sports, an area into which the players attempt to put an object.
  3. The act of placing the object into the goal.
  4. A point scored in a game as a result of placing the object into the goal.
    • 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.
  5. 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.

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Pages starting with "goal".

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VerbEdit

goal (third-person singular simple present goals, present participle goaling, simple past and past participle goaled)

  1. (Gaelic football, Australian rules) To score a goal

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EtymologyEdit

Borrowing from English goal.

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goal m (plural goals, diminutive goaltje n)

  1. goal, target in sports, especially soccer
  2. a hit in it, a point scored

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EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from English goal.

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goal m (plural goals)

  1. goalkeeper especially in soccer and polo
  2. (rare) target in those sports

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EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from English goal.

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goal m (inv)

  1. Alternative spelling of gol

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ManxEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Old Irish Gall (“Gaul, Scandinavian, Anglo-Norman, foreigner”).

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goal m (genitive singular goal, plural goallyn or goaldee)

  1. Scottish lowlander
  2. foreigner

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MutationEdit

Manx mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
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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