Noun

(en noun)

A result that one is attempting to achieve.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-11-02, volume=409, issue=8860, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= A shrinking slice , passage=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.}}

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

The act of placing the object into the goal.

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

* {{quote-news, year=2011, date=April 15, author=Saj Chowdhury, work=BBC Sport

, title= Norwich 2-1 Nott'm Forest , passage=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.}}

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.

Noun

(capacities)

The ability to hold, receive or absorb

A measure of such ability; volume

The maximum amount that can be held

It was hauling a capacity load.

The orchestra played to a capacity crowd.

Capability; the ability to perform some task

The maximum that can be produced.

Mental ability; the power to learn

A faculty; the potential for growth and development

A role; the position in which one functions

Legal authority (to make an arrest for example)

Electrical capacitance.

(operations) The maximum that can be produced on a machine or in a facility or group.

Its capacity''' rating was 150 tons per hour, but its actual maximum '''capacity was 200 tons per hour.