goal

My lifelong goal is to get into a Hollywood movie.

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.

2013 November 2, “A shrinking slice”, in The Economist, volume 409, number 8860:

A result that one is attempting to achieve.

fans behind the goal

play in goal

(sports) In many sports, an area into which the players attempt to put an object.

miss a goal

concede a goal

let in a goal

(sports) The act of placing the object into the goal.

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.

2011 April 15, Saj Chowdhury, “Norwich 2-1 Nott'm Forest”, in BBC Sport:

A point scored in a game as a result of placing the object into the goal.

(linguistics, grammar) A noun or noun phrase that receives the action of a verb. The subject of a passive verb or the direct object of an active verb. Also called a patient, target, or undergoer.

→ Armenian: գոլ (gol)

→ Azerbaijani: qol

→ Basque: gol

→ Belarusian: гол (hol)

→ Bulgarian: гол (gol)

→ Catalan: gol

→ Central Kurdish: گۆڵ (goll)

→ Czech: gól

→ Dutch: goal

→ Esperanto: golo

→ French: goal

→ Galician: gol

→ Georgian: გოლი (goli)

→ Greek: γκολ (gkol)

→ Hungarian: gól

→ Ido: golo

→ Indonesian: gol

→ Italian: gol, goal

→ Japanese: ゴール (gōru)

→ Korean: 골 (gol)

→ Luxembourgish: Gol

→ Maori: kōrā

→ Persian: گل (gol)

→ Polish: gol

→ Portuguese: golo, gol (Brazil)

→ Romanian: gol

→ Russian: гол (gol)

→ Serbo-Croatian: го̑л (gȏl)

→ Slovak: gól

→ Slovene: gól

→ Spanish: gol

→ Swahili: goli

→ Telugu: గోలు (gōlu)

→ Turkish: gol

→ Ukrainian: гол (hol)

→ Zazaki: gol

مَرْمًى

in many sports, an area into which the players attempt to put an object

هَدَف

(sport) act of placing the object into the goal

From Middle English gol (“boundary, limit”), from Old English *gāl (“obstacle, barrier, marker”), suggested by its derivatives Old English gǣlan (“to hinder, delay, impede, keep in suspense, linger, hesitate, dupe”), 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”).


goal

Australian rules football
Australian rules football

(Gaelic football, Australian rules football) To score a goal.

Gaelic football; Australian rules football; Gaelic football; Australian rules football

en-verb

goal (third-person singular simple present goals, present participle goaling, simple past and past participle goaled)

goals (present singular third-person)
goaling (participle present)
goaled (participle past)
goaled (past)