purpose

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim The end for which something is done, is made or exists.

   “What is the purpose of your visit?”

2. isim Function, role.

   “The exceptionally small gate-leg table served the purpose of a tea table admirably.”

3. isim meaning for existing or doing something.

   “Before being hospitalized, Thea filled her days with work that gave her life purpose. Whether it was teaching, writing, or investing in relationships, Thea was busily and actively engaged in activity that she could feel good about.”

4. isim Resolution; determination.

   “Perhaps you have heard that there was once some purpose of marriage between the Duc de Joyeuse and myself; it is of that which I have to tell.”

5. isim The subject of discourse; the point at issue.

   “[…]he was woont to ſpeake plaine, and to the purpoſe (like an honeſt man and a ſouldier) […]”

6. fiil To have or set as one's purpose or aim; resolve to accomplish; intend; plan.

   “1485 – Thomas Malory. Le Morte Darthur, Book X, Chapter xxxvi, leaf 235v Soo was Alysander purposed to ryde to london by the coūceille of sire Tristram to syre Launcelot / "So was Alisander purposed to ride to London, by the counsel of Sir Tristram, to Sir Launcelot."”

7. fiil To have (an) intention, purpose, or design; to intend; to mean.

   “Upon my ſoul, / You may beleeve him: nor did he ere purpoſe / To me but nobly;[…]”

8. fiil To discourse.

   “Whom ouertaking, ſhe in merry ſort Them gan to bord, and purpoſe diuerſly,[…]”