Word Finder - aim

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The pointing of a weapon, as a gun, a dart, or an arrow, or object, in the line of direction with the object intended to be struck; the line of fire; the direction of anything, such as a spear, a blow, a discourse, a remark, towards a particular point or object, with a view to strike or affect it.

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Take time with the aim of your gun.

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The point intended to be hit, or object intended to be attained or affected.

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Intention or goal

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My number one aim in life is to make money to make my parents, siblings and kids happy.

synonyms

• design
• purpose
• scheme

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The ability of someone to aim straight; one's faculty for being able to hit a physical target

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The police officer has excellent aim, always hitting the bullseye in shooting practice.

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Conjecture; guess.

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To point or direct a missile, or a weapon which propels as missile, towards an object or spot with the intent of hitting it

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He aimed at the target, but the arrow flew straight over it.

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To direct the intention or purpose; to attempt the accomplishment of a purpose; to try to gain; to endeavor;—followed by at, or by an infinitive

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to aim at a pass

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To direct or point (e.g. a weapon), at a particular object; to direct, as a missile, an act, or a proceeding, at, to, or against an object

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She aimed a punch at her ex-boyfriend.

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To direct (something verbal) towards a certain person, thing, or group

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to aim a satirical comment at Communists in general

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To guess or conjecture.

My aim is perfect!

He was free, he had nothing but his aim to consider, and he reached it.

She took careful aim and squeezed off a shot.

He grasped a musket and took aim at the French.

In the long run men hit only what they aim at.

He lifted the ax, taking aim at a new block of wood.

Rather, I aim to show that the world will be what we make it to be.

Across the street, she imagined the man with the rockets taking careful aim at her.

The banner of the church waves above the camp of those who aim at positive prosperity and republican equality.

Or at least he has rightly seen what are the assertions to aim at; it is difficult to accept the principle or method upon which his answer to the riddle proceeds, the dialectic method.

Methodism began in a revival of personal religion, and it professed to have but one aim, viz.

In theory the game of bowls is very simple, the aim of the player being to roll his bowl so as to cause it to rest nearer to the jack than his opponent's, or to protect a well-placed bowl, or to dislodge a better bowl than his own.

To establish that kingdom was his one great aim.

The aim of the society was a war with Turkey with a view to the acquisition of Macedonia, and it found a ready instrument for its designs in the growing discontent of the Cretan Christians.

If this was his aim, he succeeded.

Every man being organized in a particular way has, of necessity, an aim, the fulfilment of which is good; and he has faculties for accomplishing it, directed by reason.

Like Ewald, Lagarde was an active worker in a variety of subjects and languages; but his chief aim, the elucidation of the Bible, was almost always kept in view.

In her view the aim of every religion was merely to preserve certain proprieties while affording satisfaction to human desires.

As soon as Pierre began to say anything that did not fit in with that aim, the channel was removed and the water could flow to waste.

To be just, honest and truthful, he ever held to be the first aim of his being.

On the one hand he may make the line follow the natural inequalities of the ground as nearly as may be, avoiding the elevations and depressions by curves; or on the other he may aim at making it as nearly straight and level as possible by taking it through the elevations in cuttings or tunnels and across the depressions on embankments or bridges.

The aim of the one was national, that of the other was oecumenical.

From the conception of a universal order in the universe he reasons to a Supreme Being, who has created it and who has conferred upon every man in harmony with it the aim of his existence, leading to his highest good.

The principal condition operating in the design of locomotives intended for local services with frequent stops is the degree of acceleration required, the aim of the designer being to produce an engine which shall be able to bring the train to its journey speed in the shortest time possible.

Owen Roe professed to be acting in the interest of Charles I.; but his real aim was the complete independence of Ireland, while the AngloNorman Catholics represented by the council desired to secure religious liberty and an Irish constitution under the crown of England.

In their celebration of the communion service they aim exactly to imitate the forms observed by Christ.

The aim of the sages is to make earthly life strong and happy.

Damian took aim with the pistol and fired into her heart before she could make another sound.

We arrive thus at the essential aim of geographical botany, which, as stated by Schimper, is an inquiry into the causes of differences existing among the various floras.

Its aim is to paint Saul's character as black as possible.

To this aim everything in the political life of Cassiodorus was subservient, and this aim he evidently kept before him in his Gothic history.

The other, a law of peace, work and health, whose only aim is to deliver man from the calamities which beset him.

There seems to be no logical aim in this arrangement of the alphabetic characters and the series is incomplete.

Their aim, he said, was nothing less than "the lifting, from the backs and from the hearts of men, of their burden of arms and of fears, so that they may find before them a golden age of freedom and of peace."

So energetically do we pursue this aim that after crossing an unfordable river we burn the bridges to separate ourselves from our enemy, who at the moment is not Bonaparte but Buxhowden.

The sacrificer may aim at causing a speedy death or a slow one.

The aim of the society was to keep an eye on the government; its emblem on its papers was simply an open eye.

The war may be studied from the military point of view as an extreme example of what Clausewitz calls "war with a restricted aim."

In rejecting the League Covenant, he said " we make no surrender of our hope and aim for an association to promote peace, in which we would most heartily join."

After his retirement Colomb devoted himself rather to the history of naval warfare, and to the large principles disclosed by its intelligent study, than to experimental inquiries having an immediate practical aim.

In spite of his numerous engagements, Burnell found time to aggrandize his bishopric, to provide liberally for his nephews and other kinsmen, and to pursue his cherished but futile aim of founding a great family.

Recognizing that the true aim of the scheme of church reform brought forward in parliament in 1529 was to put down the only moral force that could withstand the royal will, he energetically opposed the reformation of abuses, which doubtless under other circumstances he would have been the first to accept.

The lopeared breed is the oldest English variety, and has been cultivated carefully since about 1785, the aim of the breeder being directed to the development of the size of the ears, and with such success that they sometimes measure more than 23 in.

The reactionary policy thus indicated gave the impression that a similar aim underlay the appointment about the same date of a commission to inquire into Biblical studies; and in other minor matters Leo XIII.

The councils of the conspirators were weakened by divided opinions as to the ultimate aim of their policy; and no clearly thought-out scheme of operations appears to have been arrived at when Emmet left Paris for Ireland in October 1802.

The aim of Lassalle, then, was to organize the working classes into a great political power, which in the way thus indicated, by peaceful resolute agitation, without violence or insurrection, might attain the goal of productive association.

The ancient philosophers sought through their philosophy to attain to a nobler and holier life, and this also was the aim of Christianity.

Autour consists of seven letters, on the origin and aim of L'Evangile et l'Eglise; on the biblical question; the criticism of the Gospels; the Divinity of Christ; the Church's foundation and authority; the origin and authority of dogma, and on the institution of the sacraments.

Casuistry might insist that it only proposed to fix the minimum of a minimum, and beg them for their soul's sake to aim a little higher.

The history of international arbitration is dealt with in the article Peace, where treaties of general arbitration are discussed, both those which embrace all future differences thereafter to arise between the contracting parties, and also those more limited conventions which aim at the settlement of all future differences in regard to particular subjects, e.g.