goal

goal has 7 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 4.

Definitions

• n.. 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.
• n.. The final purpose or aim; the end to which a design tends, or which a person aims to reach or attain.
• n.. 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.
• n.. a successful attempt at scoring; "the winning goal came with less than a minute left to play"
• n.. game equipment consisting of the place toward which players of a game try to advance a ball or puck in order to score points
• n.. 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"
• n.. the place designated as the end (as of a race or journey); "a crowd assembled at the finish"; "he was nearly exhausted as their destination came into view"