Purpose - Crossword Clue

Crossword Clue Last Updated: 24/01/2024

Below are possible answers for the crossword clue Purpose.

3 letter answer(s) to purpose

AIM
  1. an anticipated outcome that is intended or that guides your planned actions; "
  2. direct (a remark) toward an intended goal; "She wanted to aim a pun"
  3. have an ambitious plan or a lofty goal
  4. intend (something) to move towards a certain goal;
  5. move into a desired direction of discourse; "What are you driving at?"
  6. point or cause to go (blows, weapons, or objects such as photographic equipment) towards;
  7. propose or intend;
  8. specifically design a product, event, or activity for a certain public
  9. the action of directing something at an object;
  10. the direction or path along which something moves or along which it lies
  11. the goal intended to be attained (and which is believed to be attainable);
END
  1. (American football) a position on the line of scrimmage; "no one wanted to play end"
  2. (football) the person who plays at one end of the line of scrimmage; "the end managed to hold onto the pass"
  3. a boundary marking the extremities of something; "the end of town"
  4. a final part or section; "we have given it at the end of the section since it involves the calculus"; "Start at the beginning and go on until you come to the end"
  5. a final state; "he came to a bad end"; "the so-called glorious experiment came to an inglorious end"
  6. a piece of cloth that is left over after the rest has been used or sold
  7. be the end of; be the last or concluding part of; "This sad scene ended the movie"
  8. bring to an end or halt; "She ended their friendship when she found out that he had once been convicted of a crime"; "The attack on Poland terminated the relatively peaceful period after WW I"
  9. either extremity of something that has
USE
  1. (economics) the utilization of economic goods to satisfy needs or in manufacturing; "the consumption of energy has increased steadily"
  2. (law) the exercise of the legal right to enjoy the benefits of owning property; "we were given the use of his boat"
  3. (psychology) an automatic pattern of behavior in reaction to a specific situation; may be inherited or acquired through frequent repetition; "owls have nocturnal habits"; "she had a habit twirling the ends of her hair"; "long use had hardened him to it"
  4. a particular service; "he put his knowledge to good use"; "patrons have their uses"
  5. avail oneself to;
  6. exerting shrewd or devious influence especially for one's own advantage; "his manipulation of his friends was scandalous"
  7. habitually do something (use only in the past tense);
  8. put into service; make work or employ for a particular purpose or for its inherent or natural purpose;
  9. seek or achieve an end by using to on

6 letter answer(s) to purpose

ENDUSE
INTENT
  1. an anticipated outcome that is intended or that guides your planned actions; "
  2. giving or marked by complete attention to; "that engrossed look or rapt delight"; "then wrapped in dreams"; "so intent on this fantastic...narrative that she hardly stirred"- Walter de la Mare; "rapt with wonder"; "wrapped in thought"
  3. the intended meaning of a communication

4 letter answer(s) to purpose

IDEA
  1. (music) melodic subject of a musical composition; "the theme is announced in the first measures"; "the accompanist picked up the idea and elaborated it"
  2. a personal view; "he has an idea that we don't like him"
  3. an approximate calculation of quantity or degree or worth; "an estimate of what it would cost"; "a rough idea how long it would take"
  4. the content of cognition; the main thing you are thinking about; "it was not a good idea"; "the thought never entered my mind"
  5. your intention; what you intend to do; "he had in mind to see his old teacher"; "the idea of the game is to capture all the pieces"
SAKE
  1. a reason for wanting something done; "for your sake"; "died for the sake of his country"; "in the interest of safety"; "in the common interest"
  2. Japanese alcoholic beverage made from fermented rice; usually served hot
  3. the purpose of achieving or obtaining; "for the sake of argument"

9 letter answer(s) to purpose

OBJECTIVE
  1. belonging to immediate experience of actual things or events; "objective benefits"; "an objective example"; "there is no objective evidence of anything of the kind"
  2. emphasizing or expressing things as perceived without distortion of personal feelings, insertion of fictional matter, or interpretation; "objective art"
  3. serving as or indicating the object of a verb or of certain prepositions and used for certain other purposes; "objective case"; "accusative endings"
  4. the goal intended to be attained (and which is believed to be attainable);
  5. the lens or system of lenses in a telescope or microscope that is nearest the object being viewed
  6. undistorted by emotion or personal bias; based on observable phenomena; "an objective appraisal"; "objective evidence"

5 letter answer(s) to purpose

SENSE
  1. a general conscious awareness; "a sense of security"; "a sense of happiness"; "a sense of danger"; "a sense of self"
  2. a natural appreciation or ability; "a keen musical sense"; "a good sense of timing"
  3. become aware of not through the senses but instinctively; "I sense his hostility"; "i smell trouble"; "smell out corruption"
  4. comprehend; "I sensed the real meaning of his letter"
  5. detect some circumstance or entity automatically; "This robot can sense the presence of people in the room"; "particle detectors sense ionization"
  6. perceive by a physical sensation, e.g., coming from the skin or muscles; "He felt the wind"; "She felt an object brushing her arm"; "He felt his flesh crawl"; "She felt the heat when she got out of the car"
  7. sound practical judgment; "Common sense is not so common"; "he hasn't got the sense God gave little green apples"; "fortunately she had the good sense to run away"
  8. the faculty through which the ex

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A sharpshooter needs a go
Ability to hit a target
Abolish
Abstraction
Account
Adopt American English
Advantage
After losing the first two, claim point
Aim
Aim for a place to sleep when camping
Aim to finish
Alcoholic beverage often
Align the cross hairs
Almost perfect vision
Alternative to Gleem
Ambition
Annie Oakley had a good o
Annihilation
Application
Apply
Appreciation
Apt answer for this clue
Archer's asset
Armageddon
Aspiration
Assistant's first to get to the bottom of plan
At wit's ___
Authenticate each plan
Avail oneself of sheep, we hear
Bankrupt
Basic desire for one belief
Be hooked on
Bean concoction?
Bean product?
Bean sprout?
Become aware of things smelt, heard but not seen
Behalf
Benefit
Benefit of drink?
Bit of planning
Bitter ___
Border
Boundary
Brain matter?
Brain popper
Brain wave
Brainchild
Brainpower
Brains
Brainstorm
Brainwave
Brainwave regularly featuring in middle ear
Break off
Bright thought
Bring into play
Bring to a halt
Bring to bear
Butt
Caboose, e.g.
Call a halt to
Call off
Capitalize on
Cause
Cease
Cessation
Checkpoint entirely controlling import
Child of invention?
Cleaning product with the
Clever thought
Close
Close finish
Close result
Coconut yield?
Coda's place in a score
Colgate competitor
Come to a halt
Comic-strip light bulb
Common thing
Common thing?
Complete
Computer peripheral with no second function
Concentrating
Concept
Concept everyone associated at first with papers
Conception
Conclude
Conclusion
Consideration
Consume
Consumption
Creative spark
Crest alternative
Cricket wicket
Cry before firing
Culmination
Cultivate a habit in American English
Cut out
Cut short
Cutoff point
Deadeye's asset
Deadeye's skill
Death
Death occurring within seven days
Death of Venus and Adonis, originally when 2?
Decide against boxing plan
Decline to ignore official purpose
Defensive ___
Deli discard
Demise
Denouement
Deplete, with "up"
Design fashionable shelter
Design Wendy Houses
Designer's need
Destroy
Destroy object
Detect
Detect both poles coming into view
Determined to be under canvas
Determined where nomads live?
Direct
Direct ambition
Direct motorway link between capitals anticipated
Discontinue
Dissolve
Dome light?
Don't waste
Doom
Doomsday, with "the"
Draw upon
Drink at a sushi bar
Drink sometimes served ho
Drink with sushi
Drink with tempura
Drinking last of ale, Hoskins had a thought!
Edison product
Eg, taste or touch
Eliminate
Employ
Employ some housemaids
Employ trick to get rid of Republican leader
Employment
End-all
Endeavor
Epilogue
Essay's basis
European chasing American employment
Exercise
Exhaust, with "up"
Expend
Exploit
Exterior lineman
Exterminate - object
Extremity
Eye the bull's-eye
Faculty notice about new Society
Fair ___ (copyright issue
Fancy
Fancy secretary, wanting introduction later
Fantasy
Feel
Feel anxious after change of leader
Feel this could make 21
Feel; discernment
Feel; one's reason
Feeling
Feeling nurse gets aboard ship with European
Feeling somewhat wide awake
Final part
Final stage
Finale
Finis
Finish
Finish last pieces of stale Italian bread
Finish letter to daughter
Finish off goal
Finish part of bowls match
Finish study, getting degree in conclusion
Finish the season tired ultimately
Finish up
Fire preceder?
Firm plan
Fixed
Flash
Flash of inspiration
Focused
Football lineman
Fulfillment
Function
Furniture store with department covering Kelvin's proposal
Game plan
Genesis of an invention
Get rid of
Give the coup de gr
Glasses may improve it
Glimmering
Goal
Goal for neither side?
Good Japanese drink
Good judgment
Guess
Gumption - feeling
Gut feeling
Halt
Handling
Have a feeling
Have a feeling about
Have a feeling that may be common
Have a gut feeling
Have a hunch
Have no ___ for
Head light?
Head piece?
Heading for emergency minutes after hard border
Hearing, say
Heel
Helpfulness
Hollow surprise, with new head of squad at end of Prime Suspect
Horse bit
Hoskins would start to examine answer to make clue
Hot drink in a cup
Hot Japanese drink
Imagine that
Impression
Impression Brummie had drink? No time!
Initially, is doctor elated at result of brain operation?
Inkling
Insight
Inspiration
Intelligence
Intend (to)
Intent
Intention
Intention to finish
Intuit
Invention starter
Inventive thought
Inventor's start
Inventor's starting point
It can be loose or dead
It can be malicious
It comes to mind
It has a germ
It may be bitter
It may be bright
It may be common
It may be extended
It may be fair
It may be fixed
It may be living or dead
It may be taken at a gun
It may be temporary or pr
It might make you say "Ah
It pops into the head
It's a thought
It's just a thought
It's taken before firing
Japanese alcoholic drink
Japanese drink
Japanese rice alcohol
Japanese rice wine
Judgment Day
Just a thought
Just know
Just think of it
Kind of organ
Kind of tax
Kind of user
Knock off
Lacking introduction, fix conclusion
Last
Last page
Last part (appropriately)
Last section
Light bulb's significatio
Light bulb, figuratively
Light bulb, in cartoons
Lineman
Living daylights
Loaf part
Loathing one on benefit in North America
Logic
Look through the cross ha
Loon's lack
Manipulate
Marksman's skill
Martial arts teacher's detailed wisdom
Matter for the gray matte
Maze goal
Mean
Meaning
Meaning - determined
Mental flash
Mental image
Middle of the question
Middleman regularly revealing plan
Milk
Milk consumption
Milk for all its worth
Milk, in a way
Milk, so to speak
Mission statement part
Narcos providing support for one proposal
Noodle concoction
Noodle concoction?
Noodle product?
Not-so-desirable bread sl
Notion
Notion inspiring delegates, executives and leaders
Notion, one almost gone
Nut's lack
Object
Object, being in French dungeon at the beginning
Objective
Observe, taking in bridge team’s rational approach
Occupy
Omega
One may be dead
One may be on the line
One mostly loved thought
One of a standard group o
One of five
One of five, one may feel
Operate
Operation
Order before "Fire!"
Order between "ready" and
Order between ready and f
Order to a shooter
Original thought
Outcome
Outer limit
Part of a mission stateme
Part to grab hold of
Patent prerequisite
Perceive
Period
Period's place
Pete's follower
Pick up
Pick up on
Piece of mind?
Piece of one's mind?
Place to stop
Plan almost perfect
Plan in principle getting cut down
Plan inside army barracks
Plan location for circus performance?
Plan of action
Plan that’s not quite perfect
Play for a fool
Play for a sap
Player next to a tackle
Ply
Point
Point (a weapon)
Point a gun
Point a major road uphill
Political assistant’s first to drop plan
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Potential pass target
Practice
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Prepare to shoot
Prepare to shoot excellent Frenchman
Press into service
Prime rib cut
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Purpose, intention
Put a stop to the main round, ultimately
Put a stopper on
Put into service
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Put to a purpose
Put to good ___
Put to work
Quash
Quietus
Ready follower?
Rear
Reason poles are found in a place like York?
Reason to shout "Eureka!"
Regular departures from Kennedy terminal
Remnant
Resort to
Rice wine
Rice wine gives benefit
Rubbish match official withdrawn for good
Run out
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Service Europeans primarily associated with America
Serviceability
Shakin' Stevens ignoring TV impression
Share of responsibility
Sharpshooter's asset
Sharpshooter's gift
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Sign off
Sign-off
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Sneaking suspicion
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Something to think about
Somewhat fiendish purpose
Spend that American note
Squelch
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Start of a plan
Start of an invention
Start of something big?
Start to achieve this writer’s goal
Stop
Stop a goal
Stop goal
Stoppage
Suggestion
Suggestion assistant should postpone article
Suggestion less than perfect
Sushi bar drink
Swan song
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T formation participant
Tackle's neighbor
Tackle's teammate
Tail
Take advantage of
Take drugs with half-cut Liverpudlian
Take habitually
Target
Target excellent month
Target help, doubling in end
Target of racism regularly ignored
Targeting need
Taste or smell
Taste or touch
Taste, e.g.
Terminal
Terminate
Terminate a relationship
Termination
Terminus
Terminus in Wendover
The light bulb, to Edison
The purpose of American English?
The very notion
Theory
Theory's start
Thesis basis
Think about it
Think of it!
Think piece?
Think tank nugget
Think tank output
Think tank product
This person is underlining a point
This person's after mind free from bias
This should always be 24-
This, appropriately
This, for example, with "
Thought
Thought almost perfect
Thought Gide gag no good at all
Thought India deal almost complete
Thought Picaroon gives people a hand, briefly
Thought setter would worry endlessly
Thought to be perfect but coming up short?
Tight ___
Tip
Top or bottom
Touch, possibly? Otherwise it's five points
Touch, say
Transmit, dropping header, and stop
Treat shabbily
Tremor, wanting hard drink
Trial balloon, e.g.
Try to profit from
Ultimate
Ultimate point
Unbiased
Understand notice Poles brought in
Understanding directions for pen strokes to draw F on its side?
Unfairly exploit
Unpopular slice
Upshot
Utilise
Utilize
Value
Value of American English
Vibe
View model scratching bottom
Walk all over
Waste not
Wear and tear
What a prosecutor may try
What boring things never
What comes to mind
What the cogent make
What this is, fittingly
What to try to make of th
What's in your head, if not entirely wide awake
Where camper might be fixed
Wind up
Wind up or down
Windup
Witness accepts partners holding hands in hearing?
Witnesses not having their wits about them lost touch?
Word before and after "ov
Work
Wrap up
You might be in this case, not I
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