different between goal vs opener

English

Etymology

From Middle English gol (“boundary, limit”), from Old English *g?l (“obstacle, barrier, marker”), suggested by its derivatives Old English g?lan (“to hinder, delay, impede, keep in suspense, linger, hesitate, dupe”), and hy?eg?ls (“hesitating, slow, sluggish”), hy?eg?lsa (“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”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???l/, /???l/, /???l/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?o?l/
• Rhymes: -??l

Noun

goal (plural goals)

1. A result that one is attempting to achieve.
2. (sports) In many sports, an area into which the players attempt to put an object.
3. The act of placing the object into the goal.
4. A point scored in a game as a result of placing the object into the goal.
5. 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.

Synonyms

• (a result one is attempting to achieve:) ambition, object of desire, objective, purpose, aspiration
• See also Thesaurus:goal

Derived terms

Pages starting with “goal”.

• goalball
• goal difference
• goalie
• goalkeeper
• goalgetter
• goalpost
• goaltender
• goal umpire
• golden goal
• silver goal
• subgoal

Descendants

Translations

Verb

goal (third-person singular simple present goals, present participle goaling, simple past and past participle goaled)

1. (Gaelic football, Australian rules football) To score a goal.

Anagrams

• Galo, Gola, Lago, Olga, algo, algo-, gaol

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowing from English goal.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?o?l/, [?o?l]
• Hyphenation: goal

Noun

goal m (plural goals, diminutive goaltje n)

1. goal, target in sports, especially soccer
2. a hit in it, a point scored

Synonyms

• (target): doel n
• (hit): doelpunt n

Derived terms

• goalpaal

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English goal.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ol/

Noun

goal m (plural goals)

1. goalkeeper especially in soccer and polo
2. (rare) target in those sports

Synonyms

• (goalkeeper): gardien de but, gardien m, portier m
• (target): but m

Further reading

• “goal” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• algo

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English goal.

Noun

goal m (invariable)

1. Alternative spelling of gol

Anagrams

• gola, lago

Manx

Etymology

From Old Irish Gall (“Gaul, Scandinavian, Anglo-Norman, foreigner”), from Latin Gallus.

Noun

goal m (genitive singular goal, plural goallyn or goaldee)

1. Scottish lowlander
2. foreigner

Related terms

• Goal

Mutation

English

Etymology

open +? -er

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???p?n?/

Noun

opener (plural openers)

1. A person who opens something.
   • 1863, The British Controversialist: And Literary Magazine (page 122)

     Have you, like the opener of this debate, discovered, sapiently enough, that "the peace party, with Lord Aberdeen at their head, were the chief cause of the war"?

2. A device that opens something; specifically a tin-opener/can-opener, or a bottle opener.
3. (in combination) An establishment that opens.

   The late-night openers in the mall include two restaurants and a clothing store.

4. (card games) The player who starts the betting.
5. (card games, in the plural) Cards of sufficient value to enable a player to open the betting.
6. (metalworking) A person employed to separate sheets of hot metal that become stuck together.
7. (theater) The first act in a variety show or concert.
8. (cricket) A batsman who normally plays in the first two positions of an innings.
9. (colloquial) The first in a series of events, items etc.; the first remark or sentence of a conversation.
10. (sports) The first game played in a competition.
11. (sports) The first goal or point scored.
12. (fishing) A period of time when it is legal to commercially fish.
13. (baseball) A pitcher who specializes in getting the first outs of a game before being replaced, either by a long reliever or a pitcher who would normally start.

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• -perone, Perone, pereon, perone, poneer, reopen, repone