specific goal
collocation in Englishmeaningsofspecificandgoal
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specific
adjective
uk/spəˈsɪf.ɪk/us/spəˈsɪf.ɪk/
relating to one thing and not ...
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goal
noun[C]
uk/ɡəʊl/us/ɡoʊl/
an area on a playing field, that usually has two posts with a net fixed behind them, where players try to send the ball in order to score in sports such as football ...
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(Definition ofspecificandgoalfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofspecific goal
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Each design prototype contains procedural knowledge that defines how the prototype can be used within a design experience to achieve aspecificgoal.
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Such goals, as in design, can be hierarchical in nature in that aspecificgoalcould be a subset of a more general goal.
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In his view, organizations are unified social systems primarily oriented to the attainment of aspecificgoal.
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Emotions, including anxiety, signal the interruption ofspecificgoal-directed schemes of conceptualization and patterns of action.
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The former is a nonemotional behavior that is clearly aimed at aspecificgoalor outcome, such as food, territory, or dominance.
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Unlike these other paradigms, congregations are assumed to be long-lived and are not formed with a singlespecificgoalin mind.
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Thespecificgoalof the work reported here was to evaluate two approaches to controlling and quantifying rat locomotion with robots.
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But she also conceives of objects as a focal point for directing the reader's attention to aspecificgoalor aim.
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The reciprocal necessity index of a goal will reflect the need for thatspecificgoalto be taken care of.
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While dialogue games are temporarily activated during the dialogue for aspecificgoal, communication games capture more general communicative requirements supposed to be valid for any type of dialogue.
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When the need for aspecificgoalbecomes relatively small, the redundancy originally occupied by this goal shall be released to the other goals which require more redundancy.
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Though thespecificgoalof this paper is to provide monitoring and diagnosis of the cap-alignment process, the methods used in the approach are applicable to other multistage manufacturing processes.
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What the general reader might miss for the volume as a whole is a general conclusion, so that it could be clearly understood as a unit with aspecificgoal.
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In the former, users were expected to take part in activities, most of which were directed towards aspecificgoalsuch as rehabilitation, skill maintenance, or treatment.
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Because congregations are more ideologically or capability driven, and there is usually nospecificgoal or task to unite them, one must first define how these groups may be differentiated.
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The model created a possibility for politicians on the one hand to keep their exclusive identities and on the other to agree with aspecificgoal.
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Considerable confusion is likely to arise because for our part the amendment has thespecificgoalof reduction whereas the other signatories seek an increase.
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The key difference about the current initiative is that capabilities are being identified against aspecificgoal.
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