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Goal : (noun)
1: the state of affairs that a plan is intended to achieve and
that (when achieved) terminates behavior intended to
achieve it; "the ends justify the means" [syn: end]
2: a successful attempt at scoring; "the winning goal came with
less than a minute left to play"
3: game equipment consisting of the place toward which players
of a game try to advance a ball or puck in order to score
points
4: the place designated as the end (as of a race or journey);
"a crowd assembled at the finish"; "he was nearly
exhuasted as their destination came into view" [syn: finish,
destination]
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Goal : \Goal\, n. [F. gaule pole, Prov. F. waule, of German
origin; cf. Fries. walu staff, stick, rod, Goth. walus, Icel.
v["o]lr a round stick; prob. akin to E. wale.]
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. --Milton.
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. --Pope.
3. A base, station, or bound used in various games; in
football, a line between two posts across which the ball
must pass in order to score; also, the act of kicking the
ball over the line between the goal posts.
Goal keeper, the player charged with the defense of the
goal.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Goal :
In logic programming, a predicate applied to
its arguments which the system attempts to prove by matching
it against the clauses of the program. A goal may fail or
it may succeed in one or more ways.
(1997-07-14)
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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