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Ambition vs. Goal

Ambition and Goal Definitions

Ambition

An eager or strong desire to achieve something, such as fame or power.

Goal

The object toward which an endeavor is directed; an end.

Ambition

The object or goal desired
Her ambition is the presidency.

Goal

A structure or area into which players endeavor to propel a ball or puck in order to score points.

Ambition

Desire for exertion or activity; energy
Had no ambition to go dancing.

Goal

A play or shot that sends a ball or puck into or through the goal.
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Ambition

Eager or inordinate desire for some object that confers distinction, as preferment, honor, superiority, political power, or fame; desire to distinguish one's self from other people.
My son, John, wants to be a firefighter very much. He has a lot of ambition.

Goal

The score awarded for such an act.

Ambition

(countable) An object of an ardent desire.
My ambition is to own a helicopter.

Goal

The finish line of a race.

Ambition

A desire, as in (sense 1), for another person to achieve these things.

Goal

A noun or noun phrase referring to the place to which something moves.
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Ambition

(uncountable) A personal quality similar to motivation, not necessarily tied to a single goal.

Goal

See patient.

Ambition

(obsolete) The act of going about to solicit or obtain an office, or any other object of desire; canvassing.

Goal

A result that one is attempting to achieve.
My lifelong goal is to get into a Hollywood movie.
She failed in her goal to become captain of the team.

Ambition

To seek after ambitiously or eagerly; to covet.

Goal

(sport) In many sports, an area into which the players attempt to put an object.
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Ambition

The act of going about to solicit or obtain an office, or any other object of desire; canvassing.
[I] used no ambition to commend my deeds.

Goal

(sport) The act of placing the object into the goal.

Ambition

An eager, and sometimes an inordinate, desire for preferment, honor, superiority, power, or the attainment of something.
Cromwell, I charge thee, fling a way ambition:By that sin fell the angels.
The pitiful ambition of possessing five or six thousand more acres.

Goal

A point scored in a game as a result of placing the object into the goal.

Ambition

To seek after ambitiously or eagerly; to covet.
Pausanias, ambitioning the sovereignty of Greece, bargains with Xerxes for his daughter in marriage.

Goal

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.

Ambition

A cherished desire;
His ambition is to own his own business

Goal

To score a goal.

Ambition

A strong drive for success

Goal

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.
Part curb their fiery steeds, or shun the goalWith rapid wheels.

Ambition

Have as one's ambition

Goal

The final purpose or aim; the end to which a design tends, or which a person aims to reach or attain.
Each individual seeks a several goal.

Goal

A base, station, or bound used in various games as the point or object which a team must reach in order to score points; in certain games, the point which the ball or puck must pass in order for points to be scored. In football, it is a line between two posts across which the ball must pass in order to score points; in soccer or ice hockey, it is a net at each end of the soccer field into which the soccer ball or hocjey puck must be propelled; in basketball, it is the basket{7} suspended from the backboard, through which the basketball must pass.

Goal

The act or instance of propelling the ball or puck into or through the goal{3}, thus scoring points; as, to score a goal.

Goal

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

Goal

A successful attempt at scoring;
The winning goal came with less than a minute left to play

Goal

Game equipment consisting of the place toward which players of a game try to advance a ball or puck in order to score points

Goal

The place designated as the end (as of a race or journey);
A crowd assembled at the finish
He was nearly exhuasted as their destination came into view

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