Goal vs Prophecy - What's the difference?
goal | prophecy |
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.
A prediction, especially one made by a prophet or under divine inspiration.
* 1967 , George King, The Five Temples Of God , The Aetherius Society (2014 edition),
* Marjorie Garber, “ ” (Quotation Marks)'' in 2001 , S.I. Salamensky, ''Talk, Talk, Talk: The Cultural Life of Everyday Conversation , Routledge,
* 2013 , Theodor Adorno, The Jargon of Authenticity , Routledge,
* 2014 , Emran El-Badawi, The Qur'an and the Aramaic Gospel Traditions , Routledge,
As nouns the difference between goal and prophecy
is that goal is gaul while prophecy is a prediction, especially one made by a prophet or under divine inspiration.As a proper noun goal
is britain.As a verb prophecy is
.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
* ----prophecy
English
(wikipedia prophecy)Noun
(prophecies)- French writer Nostradamus made a prophecy in his book .
Derived terms
* self-fulfilling prophecy * self-defeating prophecyVerb
(en-verb)page 19:
- The manipulation of these tremendous beneficient energies helped the world so well that the vast majority of these prophecied catastrophies did not happen.
page 142:
- One prophecied a change of fortunes for the club:
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- The Heideggerian tone of voice is indeed prophecied in Schiller’s discussion of dignity.
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- the parable in Mark 12:1—5 where some of Jesus’s followers who prophecied and were martyred in Antioch (Q 36;13—25; cf. 11:91);