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Meaning purpose meaning

What does purpose mean?
Definitions in simple English

purpose Noun

— A purpose is reason for doing something or for existing. Coal is used for only three purposes: heating houses, generating electricity and making steel. The main purpose of the visit was to see the new building.

purpose Verb

— If you purpose to do something, you plan on doing it.

purpose

— noun (= intent, intention, aim, design) an anticipated outcome that is intended or that guides your planned actions his intent was to provide a new translation good intentions are not enough it was created with the conscious aim of answering immediate needs he made no secret of his designs — noun (= function, use) what something is used for the function of an auger is to bore holes ballet is beautiful but what use is it? — noun (= determination) the quality of being determined to do or achieve something; firmness of purpose his determination showed in his every movement he is a man of purpose — verb (= resolve) reach a decision he resolved never to drink again — verb (= aim, propose) propose or intend I aim to arrive at noon

Synonyms purpose synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as purpose?

purpose English » English

aim intention goal objective object target intent intend design plan end motive reason purport desire thought mind meaning determination use function wish thoughts thinking mean destination cause significance role resolve resolution propose so that scope point butt will view sense sake project occasion intension idea have in mind aspiration want topic think subject

Topics purpose topics

What do people use purpose to talk about?
Language and thought Want Decide, plan

Intend
Language and thought Want Decide, plan

Purpose, goal
Work and occupation Work Method

Plan
Grammar Connected with, related Dependency relations

Purpose
Grammar Connected with, related Dependency relations Purpose

Without purpose
Language and thought Want Decide, plan

Deliberately
Language and thought Emotion Feel good Interested

Enthusiastic
Social behavior Relationships

Unity

Conjugation purpose conjugation

How do you conjugate purpose?

purpose · verb

Examples purpose examples

How do I use purpose in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Do you think he made that mistake on purpose?
You made the mistake on purpose, didn't you?
I broke the vase on purpose.
He is sure to accomplish his purpose.
He achieved his purpose.
What's the purpose of your trip?
For what purpose?
Tom explained the purpose of the project to Mary.
Everything has a purpose.
Did you do that on purpose?
What is its purpose?
Many people drift through life without a purpose.
Despite the importance of sleep, its purpose is a mystery.
You did it on purpose, didn't you?
I didn't do it on purpose.
Did you break the window on purpose or by accident?
What's your real purpose?
What is the ultimate purpose of education?
I came to this country for the purpose of studying music.
It serves our purpose.
The purpose of our trip is to visit a new factory.
For what purpose did he come here?
For what purpose did you break into the house?
I have to attain my purpose at all costs.
The clown fell down on purpose.
Susan broke the dish on purpose to show her anger.

Movie subtitles

The main purpose of these visits was not so much to trade, but to assert Chinese supremacy.
What is our purpose?
Maybe that purpose is just to be nice to each other and just to seek and explore and to discover.
We would like to know that there's a higher purpose, that we're a part of something bigger.
Well, this is here on purpose.
It's here on purpose.
I'm not hiding it from you on purpose.
Look, if we do this restaurant and you get that fire back in your belly, you have a purpose again.
Meanwhile, as we try to discuss lighter matters during recreation, perhaps I may ask Nurse Franklin the purpose of her manicure?
You hardly do it on purpose.
You did that on purpose!
You did that on purpose, didn't you?
Because I was there, and I specifically remember you approaching me with purpose.
We might have been lured here on purpose!
Are you saying even a modified body will never lose sight of its true will and purpose in this world?
Hmm. I must assume you're aware of the purpose of this call?
I hope this place serves your purpose, My Lord.
You understand, then, our purpose?
I've served my purpose!
No, all-purpose maid.
The publishers did not see that my purpose was to write a moral lesson of the punishment that befell a mortal man who dared to emulate God.
Whatever your purpose was, I take great relish in savouring each separate horror.
You did it on purpose, but like the others. you'll say you slipped.
Now, for the purpose of the record, what time will you arrive at the bazaar?
The first time I ever had a suit made on purpose.
He must have had some purpose in taking the plane.
It is the entire meaning and purpose of Shangri-La.
OF RENEWED PURPOSE AND CLARITY AND. REMEMBER THE THINGS THAT YOU REALLY CARE ABOUT.
I'd be spilling out of this thing, and not like in a sexy, on purpose, Christina Hendricks type of way.
No, not much, on purpose.
I've served my purpose.
One cannot live faithfully and give up. what has given meaning and purpose to one's entire life.
I didn't go bankrupt on purpose, you know.
Any way you look at it, a geisha's only purpose is to give men pleasure.
At first I didn't see she'd done it on purpose.
And may I ask what your purpose is in going there?

News and current affairs

In the colonial era, it was the official purpose of imperial power to extract wealth from the administered territories.
The purpose of the ECB's measures was to re-establish confidence and bring about a recovery of the inter-bank market.
But if that is the League's purpose - and I see no other - then it is a danger to peace.
Their aim is to do the most good they can with the resources that they are willing to set aside for that purpose.
The purpose of scientific advisory committees is to provide balanced, thoughtful advice to the policy process.
The ostensible purpose of the summit is to make those changes in the European Union's decision-making machinery that would enable it to cope with the admission of at least 12 new members, mainly from Central and Eastern Europe.
The purpose of this realignment was to create more stable large parties, but further changes are likely.
Many films would have glorified a scientist seeking such a goal, and treated the use of animals for that purpose as obviously justified.
Evangelical values mean little to people whose only purpose is money.
Just as the Devil can quote scripture for his purpose, Third World communitarianism can be the slogan of a deracinated tyrant trained, as in the case of Pol Pot, at the Sorbonne.
When the treaty's underlying purpose is neither about trade nor freedom.
The only counterargument is that slower fiscal adjustment would further reduce confidence and thereby defeat the purpose by resulting in lower private spending.
Members of NATO share much more than an alliance; we are united by ties of blood and purpose, a heritage of liberty, and a calling to confront extremists' violence - and defeat it.
That unity need not mean a uniformity of tactics or views, but rather a union of purpose.
Likewise, use of the renminbi for the purpose of invoicing and settling trade with China is bound to continue growing.
Liquidity injections and bailouts serve only one purpose - to buy time.
In other words, the League's main purpose is to marginalize Russia and China in world affairs.
The only purpose of the League of Democracies seems to be to legitimize war-making by democracies - in order to spread democracy!
But that, of course, is the chief purpose of a monetary union.
In March 2011, the US Air Force for the first time trained more pilots for drones than for any other purpose.
By preserving its unity of purpose and maintaining the pressure and negotiating momentum that it has generated, Europe can demonstrate to Iran, the US, and itself that it has what it takes to be a major global actor.
This absence of animating purpose, of faith in the future, has made us hungry for our past.

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