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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: goal n 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: a place toward which players of a game try to advance a ball or puck in order to score points 4: place where something (e.g., a journey or race) ends [syn: {destination}] From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]: goalIn {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)
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