Definition of Aim

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Definition of Aim

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

Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.
Thomas Jefferson

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

Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.
C. S. Lewis

Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.
Mohandas Gandhi

You're dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway.
Walt Disney

The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well the product or service fits him and sells itself.
Peter Drucker

Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with.
Robert Frost

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

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
Aristotle

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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