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goal

[gohl]
–noun
1. the result or achievement toward which effort is directed; aim; end.
2. the terminal point in a race.
3. a pole, line, or other marker by which such a point is indicated.
4. an area, basket, cage, or other object or structure toward or into which players of various games attempt to throw, carry, kick, hit, or drive a ball, puck, etc., to score a point or points.
5. the act of throwing, carrying, kicking, driving, etc., a ball or puck into such an area or object.
6. the score made by this act.

Origin:
1275–1325; ME gol boundary, limit; cf. OE gǣlan to hinder, impede


goalless, adjective


1. target; purpose, object, objective, intent, intention. 2. finish.
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goal 
1531, "end point of a race," perhaps from O.E. *gal "obstacle, barrier," a word implied by gælan "to hinder." The word appears once before this, in a poem from c. 1315. Football sense is attested from 1548.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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