Goal vs. Purpose

Goalnoun

A result that one is attempting to achieve.

Goalnoun

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

Goalnoun

The act of placing the object into the goal.

Goalnoun

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

Goalnoun

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.

Goalverb

To score a goal

Goalnoun

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.

Goalnoun

The final purpose or aim; the end to which a design tends, or which a person aims to reach or attain.

Goalnoun

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.

Goalnoun

The act or instance of propelling the ball or puck into or through the goal{3}, thus scoring points; as, to score a goal.

Goalnoun

the state of affairs that a plan is intended to achieve and that (when achieved) terminates behavior intended to achieve it;

Goalnoun

a successful attempt at scoring;

Goalnoun

game equipment consisting of the place toward which players of a game try to advance a ball or puck in order to score points

Goalnoun

the place designated as the end (as of a race or journey);

Goal

A goal is an idea of the future or desired result that a person or a group of people envision, plan and commit to achieve. People endeavour to reach goals within a finite time by setting deadlines.

Purposenoun

An object to be reached; a target; an aim; a goal. "purpose".

Purposenoun

A result that is desired; an intention.

Purposenoun

The act of intending to do something; resolution; determination.

Purposenoun

The subject of discourse; the point at issue.

Purposenoun

The reason for which something is done, or the reason it is done in a particular way.

Purposenoun

(obsolete) Instance; example.

Purposeverb

(intransitive) To have set as one's purpose; resolve to accomplish; intend; plan.

Purposeverb

To design for some purpose.

Purposeverb

To discourse.

Purposenoun

That which a person sets before himself as an object to be reached or accomplished; the end or aim to which the view is directed in any plan, measure, or exertion; view; aim; design; intention; plan.

Purposenoun

Proposal to another; discourse.

Purposenoun

Instance; example.

Purposeverb

To set forth; to bring forward.

Purposeverb

To propose, as an aim, to one's self; to determine upon, as some end or object to be accomplished; to intend; to design; to resolve; - often followed by an infinitive or dependent clause.

Purposeverb

To have a purpose or intention; to discourse.

Purposenoun

an anticipated outcome that is intended or that guides your planned actions;

Purposenoun

what something is used for;

Purposenoun

the quality of being determined to do or achieve something;

Purposeverb

propose or intend;

Purposeverb

reach a decision;