Aim
To point or direct a missile weapon, or a weapon which propels as missile, towards an object or spot with the intent of hitting it; as, to aim at a fox, or at a target.
To direct the indention or purpose; to attempt the accomplishment of a purpose; to try to gain; to endeavor; -- followed by at, or by an infinitive; as, to aim at distinction; to aim to do well.
To guess or conjecture.
To direct or point, as a weapon, at a particular object; to direct, as a missile, an act, or a proceeding, at, to, or against an object; as, to aim a musket or an arrow, the fist or a blow (at something); to aim a satire or a reflection (at some person or vice).
The pointing of a weapon, as a gun, a dart, or an arrow, in the line of direction with the object intended to be struck; the line of fire; the direction of anything, as a spear, a blow, a discourse, a remark, towards a particular point or object, with a view to strike or affect it.
The point intended to be hit, or object intended to be attained or affected.
Intention; purpose; design; scheme.
Conjecture; guess.
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Aim Quotations
The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
Albert Einstein
Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.
Thomas Jefferson
Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.
C. S. Lewis
The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
Aristotle
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
Aristotle
Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.
Aristotle
We aim above the mark to hit the mark.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.
Henry David Thoreau
My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.
Ernest Hemingway
Aim Translations
aim in Afrikaans is oogmerk, doel, bedoel
aim in Dutch is aanleggen
aim in French is visez, dgssein, mire, visons, but, peiner, visent
aim in German is zielen, beabsichtigen, Ziel, Ziel
aim in Italian is scopo, proposito
aim in Latin is intendo, calx
aim in Portuguese is alvo
aim in Spanish is fin, conato
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