1. purpose
A good purpose makes hard work a pleasure.
useful purpose
The mind always loves to tack on to something, and when it doesn't have anything good for that purpose, it turns to the evil.
For many years I thought that it was beauty alone that gave significance to life and that the only purpose that could be assigned to the generations that succeed one another on the face of this crowded earth was to produce an artist now and then.
The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
When there was despair in the dust bowl and depression across the land, she saw a nation conquer fear itself with a New Deal, new jobs, a new sense of common purpose. Yes, we can.
But, if by that, morale drops wouldn't that defeat the purpose of the exercise?
He makes good use of the pheasants he hunts. He has a purpose for every part of the bird.
It is not my purpose to investigate the impact of Emmet's theory on biology.
More than ever do we need goals or leading ideas that will give purpose to whatever we are doing.
Christopher Columbus disliked Spanish brothels, as he found them dirty and too expensive. Instead, he would go out to sea, get lured in - on purpose - by the Siren's song, and then have a rocking good time.
I went to see the Immigration Officer who asked me detailed questions about the purpose of my visit and the amount of money I was bringing.
The walking stick serves the purpose of an advertisement that the bearer's hands are employed otherwise than in useful effort, and it therefore has utility as an evidence of leisure.
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Learn English2. objective
their objectives
Among the critics are those who think that the objective set for the European Central Bank is not appropriate.
There is no objective measure of a word's badness. It all comes down to context.
The French Revolution not only had as its objective to change an old government, but also to abolish the old form of society.
My sister didn't own up to breaking the lamp, instead she made up some story about aliens coming to Earth with the objective of destroying every piece of yellow furniture.
Every experiment required a protected environment and an entirely objective frame of mind.
It's difficult to give an objective definition of terrorism, as it is practically different in every country.
Earning our customers confidence and respect is this firm's objective.
If you consider the objective of hibernation, I think it's the response of animals trying to somehow survive the winter season with its lack of food.
'That' has only the two cases, nominative and objective, and it does not inflect depending on the case.
There may be microscopes involved, bringing us ever closer to the heart of the matter; but even microbiology is objective, adding to knowledge by putting space between an object and its observer.
The objective of the internship was to design, conduct and analise the results of a makret study to identify customer need for a range of electronic gearboxes for industrial conveyor belts.
campaigning = working in an organised and active way to achieve an objective
First, let's focus on a general objective. This meeting's objective is to choose a leader. The definition of an objective is a goal or something to aim for. An example of objective is a list of things to accomplish during a meeting.
As part of a survey to determine their strengths and weaknesses, the students were asked to make a list of their objectives.