goal
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: grammar
hobbies
human-sciences
lifestyle
linguistics
sciences
sports
Etymology: From Middle English gol (“boundary, limit”), from Old English *gāl (“obstacle, barrier, marker”), from Proto-West Germanic *gailu, from Proto-Germanic *gailō (“crevice, gap”); compare the Old English's derivatives Old English gǣlan (“to hinder, delay”), 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”).
Inflected forms:
form: goals
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: goals
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: goaling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: goaled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: goaled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A result that one is attempting to achieve.
pos: noun
examples: My lifelong goal is to get into a Hollywood movie.
His goal is to become a YouTuber.
She failed in her goal to become captain of the team.
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.
gloss: To do with sports
pos: noun
examples: The racers are approaching the goal.
fans behind the goal
play in goal
The ball rolled slowly into the goal.
He hit the goal 20 yards away.
gloss: To do with sports
pos: noun
examples: miss a goal
concede a goal
let in a goal
gloss: To do with sports
pos: noun
examples: score a goal
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.
gloss: To do with grammar
pos: noun
gloss: To do with grammar
pos: noun
gloss: To score a goal.
pos: verb
Synonyms: object of desire
objective
purpose
aspiration
aim
end
goal
intention
object
success
target
telos
Related words: campaign
cause
crusade
drive
movement
Derived words: antigoal
any hole's a goal
away goal
basketball goal
captain's goal
consolation goal
distal goal
drop goal
dropped goal
empty-net goal
end goal
field goal → field goal percentage
ghost goal
goal area
goal attack
goal average
goalball
goalbound
goalbox
goal cage
goal celebration
goal contribution
goal defence
goal difference
goal-directed
goaler
goalfest
goalframe
goal-getter
goalgetter
goalhanger
goalie
goalish
goal judge
goalkeeper
goal kick
goalkicker
goalkicking
goalless
goal line
goal-line
goal machine
goalminder
goalmouth
goalodicy
goal-oriented
goalpost → move the goalposts
goalscorer
goalscoring
goal setting
goal shooter
goalside
goalsneak
goalsquare
goal square
goal suck
goal-suck
goaltend
goaltender
goaltending
goal third
goal umpire
goalward
golden goal
in goal
in-goal
insurance goal
life goal
multigoal
nongoal
non-goal
Olympic goal
open goal
opening goal
own goal
penalty goal
phantom goal
ringoal
self goal
shot on goal
silver goal
squad goal
stretch goal
subgoal
supergoal
touch-in-goal
wondergoal
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