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Goal

noun

The state of affairs that a plan is intended to achieve and that (when achieved) terminates behavior intended to achieve it. Synonym: end.

The place designated as the end (as of a race or journey). Synonyms: destination, finish. "He was nearly exhausted as their destination came into view"

Game equipment consisting of the place toward which players of a game try to advance a ball or puck in order to score points.

A successful attempt at scoring.

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"Goal" Quotes from Famous Books

... funeral since the reoccupation of Bloemfontein by the British it fell to my lot to conduct two days after our arrival. A fine young guardsman who had taken part in each of our four famous battles, and in our recent march, just saw this goal of all our hopes and died. The fatal symptoms were evidently of a specially alarming type, for he was hastily buried with all his belongings, his slippers, his iron mug, his boots, his haversack, and the very stretcher on which he lay; then over all was ...

— With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back • Edward P. Lowry

... at the goal and haven of their hopes, the theatre in which was to be acted the last scene in the drama of their enterprise, the travellers surveyed it for awhile from their concealment, in deep silence, each speculating in his own mind upon ...

— Nick of the Woods • Robert M. Bird

... thrilled at every sudden spurt ahead which meant a gain; groaned when the advance was stopped by one of those terrifying tackles, and experienced the exultant joy only possible when the pigskin sails unchecked between the goal posts. ...

— Polly's Senior Year at Boarding School • Dorothy Whitehill

... an angel; but she is a blind one, and must ask of Knowledge to show her the pathway that leads to her goal. Mere knowledge, on the other hand, like a Swiss mercenary, is ready to combat either in the ranks of sin or under the banners of righteousness,—ready to forge cannon-balls or to print New Testaments, to navigate a corsair's vessel or ...

— Pearls of Thought • Maturin M. Ballou

... goal. He had been called in, had found the woman dying of pure senility, had actually seen her pass away, and had signed the certificate in due form. "I assure you that everything was perfectly normal and there was no room for foul ...

— The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax • Arthur Conan Doyle

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