purpose

Betekenis (Engels)

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) The end for which something is done, is made or exists.
2. (countable, uncountable) Function, role.
3. (countable, uncountable) meaning for existing or doing something.
4. (countable, uncountable) Resolution; determination.
5. (countable, obsolete, uncountable) The subject of discourse; the point at issue.

Verb

1. (transitive) To have or set as one's purpose or aim; resolve to accomplish; intend; plan.
2. (intransitive) To have (an) intention, purpose, or design; to intend; to mean.
3. (intransitive, obsolete) To discourse.

Sinonieme

aim

intention

goal

objective

object

target

intent

intend

design

end

🔚

plan

motive

desire

reason

purport

thought

💭

meaning

determination

mind

use

function

wish

destination

thinking

🤔

mean

thoughts

cause

significance

propose

resolve

resolution

role

point

scope

so that

butt

sense

idea

💡

sake

🍶

project

occasion

will

aspiration

intension

view

have in mind

aim at

ground

premeditation

drive

purpose to

duty

counsel

result

deliberateness

employ

mission

think

🤔

subject

topic

basis

direction

determine

ambition

finish

destiny

want

pretension

proposal

psyche

purview

quota

reasoning

refer

resemble

same

scheme

sentiment

sentinel

sentry

settle

signification

similar

source

stand for

strive for

striving

study

style

tend to

tenor

theme

think of

train on

track

trail

usefulness

utility

venture

work

drive at

for no reason

head for

intend to

leisure occupation

intendment

conception

employment

goal end

have a mine

base of tree

be minded to

final destination

destination goal

stop

🛑

aims

animus

application

argument

bad faith

be after

bent

bid

bourn

bourne

case

close

connotation

conscience

consider

contemplation

content

decide

decision

designate

destine

discussion

dispose

drift

effect

effort

endeavor

ending

expect

expiry

feeling

final

finality

firmness

focus

foreordination

fun

get

gist

guide

hope

ideal

identical

illustration

imply

import

inclination

incline

in order

in order that

insinuation

interest

just as

just like

like

mark

meditate

opinion

outlook

path

🛣️

predestination

prefigure

preordination

preposition

present

Vertalings

but

Zweck

propósito

doel

Absicht

Ziel

dessein

intention

bedoeling

fin

🔚

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/ˈpɝpəs/

Etimologie (Engels)

Geërf van Middle English: purpos

Geërf van Middle English: purposen

In summary

From Middle English purpos, from Old French purposer (“to propose”) (with conjugation altered based on poser), from Latin prō- (“forth”) + pōnere (“place, put”), hence Latin prōpōnō, prōpōnere.

Sinne

The purpose is to conserve the power of the striking train .

Scholars are divided on the purpose of this and other barays.

With this purpose , the antibody for the antigen we are seeking is added to the gel substrate .