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goal

sustantivoverbocorriente en diálogos

  • Reino Unido//ɡəʊl//
  • Reino Unido/[ɡɒʊɫ]/
  • //ɡɒl//

A result that one is attempting to achieve.

sustantivo

  1. 1

    A result that one is attempting to achieve.

    My lifelong goal is to get into a Hollywood movie.

    His goal is to become a YouTuber.

    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.

  2. 2

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

    The racers are approaching the goal.

    fans behind the goal

    play in goal

    The ball rolled slowly into the goal.

  3. 3

    To do with sports The act of placing the object into the goal.

    miss a goal

    concede a goal

    let in a goal

  4. 4

    To do with sports A point scored in a game as a result 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.

  5. 5

    To do with grammar A noun or noun phrase that receives the action of a verb.

  6. 6

    To do with grammar The subject of a passive verb or the direct object of an active verb.

Etimología

From Middle English gol (“boundary, limit”), from Old English *gāl (“obstacle, barrier, marker”), from Proto-West Germanic *gailu, from Proto-Germanic *gailō (“crevice, gap”); compare the Old English's derivatives Old English gǣlan (“to hinder, delay”), 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”).

verbo

  1. 1

    To score a goal.

Formas

plural
goals
pasado
goaled
participio
goaled
gerundio
goaling
3.ª persona del singular
goals
Las páginas vecinasEl orden alfabético sigue las reglas del idioma, no el valor de los bytes: un acento solo desempata entre dos palabras por lo demás idénticas, y la Ñ es una letra propia con su propia sección.

Contenido léxico procedente de Wiktionary, bajo licencia CC BY-SA 4.0 · Entrada de origen · Versión de los datos 2026-08-23

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