(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.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Frenchman’s 65th-minute goal was a fifth for United and redemptive after he conceded the penalty from which CSKA Moscow took a first-half lead.
(2) The goals in control patients were to attain normal values for all hemodynamic measurements.
(3) The goals of treatment are the restoration of normal gut peristalsis and the correction of nutritional deficiencies.
(4) A dedicated goal makes a big difference in mobilising action and resources.
(5) The successful treatment of the painful neuroma remains an elusive surgical goal.
(6) Other than failing to get a goal, I couldn’t ask for anything more.” From Lambert’s perspective there was an element of misfortune about the first and third goals, with Willian benefitting from handy ricochets on both occasions.
(7) The initiation of clinical trials should be a primary goal of gene therapy research programs.
(8) Looks like some kind of dissent, with Ameobi having words with Phil Dowd at the kick off after Liverpool's second goal.
(9) As James said in Friday’s announcement, his goal was to win championships, and in Miami he was able to reach the NBA Finals every year.
(10) Tests in which the size of the landmark was altered from that used in training suggest that distance is not learned solely in terms of the apparent size of the landmark as seen from the goal.
(11) Still, even as unknowable as this decision may be for him, as any decision is, really, he is far more qualified to understand his desires and goals that would inform that decision than anyone else is.
(12) As evidence, they show no mediated semantic-phonological priming during picture naming: Retrieval of sheep primes goat, but the activation of goat is not transmitted to its phonological relative, goal.
(13) There is no doubt that new techniques in molecular biology will continue to evolve so that the goal of gene therapy for many disorders may be possible in the future.
(14) Four goals, four assists, and constant movement have been a key part of the team’s success.
(15) The London Olympics delivered its undeniable panache by throwing a large amount of money at a small number of people who were set a simple goal.
(16) We outline a protocol for presenting the diagnosis of pseudoseizure with the goal of conveying to the patient the importance of knowing the nonepileptic nature of the spells and the need for psychiatric follow-up.
(17) This goal seems to have been met as indicated by an evaluation received from the students, since 58.3 percent believed they better understood the role of the technologist and clinical laboratory in patient care.
(18) Abe’s longstanding efforts toward those goals, which include the successful passage of a state secrets act and efforts to expand the scope of Japan’s military activities have already damaged relations with China.
(19) Estonia had been reduced to 10 men early in the second half yet Hodgson’s men had to toil away for another 25 minutes before the goal, direct from Wayne Rooney’s free-kick, that soothed their mood and maintained their immaculate start to this qualifying programme.
(20) For each of the goals, some were far from complying.
Goaltender
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) We have referees who are unfamiliar with that silly "Goaltender Interference" technicality.
(2) It appeared that information that could facilitate anticipation in this goaltending task was both available and useable during the period that precedes the shot.
(3) Thirty-four young (15.8 years) goaltenders observed filmed sequences of a hockey player approaching the net and directing a shot to one of the four corners.
(4) Goaltending Facebook Twitter Pinterest Lundqvist makes a save.
(5) New York goaltender Henrik Lundqvist set an NHL record with his fifth-straight Game 7 victory, making 35 saves.
(6) Brandon Saad made a nice pass to the middle, and the oldest player on the ice beat goaltender Jonathan Quick with a backhander for his second goal of the playoffs.
(7) If you're a Rangers fan, you think that the extra rest you got could help, but that it could also potentially kill all that momentum the team had, and perhaps cool off a hot Henrik Lundqvist, whose goaltending is the main reason why New York are playing tonight.
(8) It was a night of strange bounces and spotty goaltending, even if New York's best chance of the game had Carl Hagelin's shot stopped by the end of Dustin Tokarski's stick midway through the first period.
(9) Most prominent of all was the Senators goaltender Dominik Hasek, who suffered a groin injury that kept him out of the lineup back in Ottawa, introducing us all to a younger Ray Emery.
(10) Rangers goaltender Henrik Lundqvist, he said, “is the fulcrum.” “If we expect the Kings to get 52 to 53 percent of the shots and expect Lundqvist and Quick to match their average save percentages over the last three years, that leads to a draw at even strength,” Tulsky wrote, noting the Rangers seem to have the edge on special teams, shooting and fatigue.
(11) The mean heart rate response of the goaltenders was 143 beats per minute or 64% KM intensity.
(12) There was still a lot to be happy with – speed, turnovers, goaltending – and as above, they matched the Kings in many aspects of the game, but none of it was good enough.
(13) That one was even much closer, with the Senators only managing to take it in overtime against Montreal's backup goaltender, Peter Budaj.
(14) It was also evident that the wrist shot provided more cues for the goaltender than did the slap shot.
(15) With New York ahead 4-2, the puck deflected off of the Los Angeles King, Dwight King, a left winger, and past King Henrik Lundqvist, the Rangers royally nicknamed goaltender.
(16) The point at which the beginner's "reaction-type" pattern of goaltending must be augmented with "anticipation-type" behavior was explored.
(17) Those goals, along with goaltender Henrik Lundqvist having two incredible games between the pipes (he stopped 77 of 79 shots sent his way), gave the Rangers that confidence they’d been lacking ever since Game 1 ended.
(18) There were a few posts hit again on Friday night on both sides, and some close calls along the goal line, but no moment was more confounding, more given to speculation of random chance then when Martin St Louis moved to his favourite spot – right around the face-off circle to the goaltender’s left – and, just as he was about to receive a perfectly-placed pass that would have surely resulted in a goal, stumbled on his own skate blade.
(19) The effect of both the availability and the quality of visual cues preceding stick-puck contact was investigated for an ice hockey goaltending task.