Goal vs Future - What's the difference?
goal | future |
A result that one is attempting to achieve.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-11-02, volume=409, issue=8860, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= 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= 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.
The time ahead; those moments yet to be experienced.
Something that will happen in moments yet to come.
Goodness in what is yet to come/Something to look forward to.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= (grammar) Verb tense used to talk about events that will happen in the future; future tense.
(finance) A standardized, tradable agreement between two parties that one will sell and the other will buy a specific commodity at a specific later date and a specific price.
Having to do with or occurring in the future.
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*:So this was my future home, I thought! Certainly it made a brave picture. I had seen similar ones fired-in on many a Heidelberg stein. Backed by towering hills,a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.
As nouns the difference between goal and future
is that goal is a result that one is attempting to achieve while future is the time ahead; those moments yet to be experienced.As an adjective future is
having to do with or occurring in the future.goal
English
(wikipedia goal)Noun
(en noun)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.}}
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.}}
Synonyms
* (a result one is attempting to achieve: ) ambition, object of desire, objective, purpose, aspiration * See alsoDerived terms
(goal) * goalball * goal difference * goalie * goalkeeper * goalgetter * goalpost * goaltender * goal umpire * golden goal * silver goal * subgoalAnagrams
* ----future
English
(wikipedia future)Noun
Revenge of the nerds, passage=Think of banking today and the image is of grey-suited men in towering skyscrapers. Its future , however, is being shaped in converted warehouses and funky offices in San Francisco, New York and London, where bright young things in jeans and T-shirts huddle around laptops, sipping lattes or munching on free food.}}