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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

... 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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