aim has definitions from the field of transportation
1
[ noun ] an anticipated outcome that is intended or that guides your planned actions

Examples

"his intent was to provide a new translation" "good intentions are not enough" "the conscious aim of answering immediate needs" "he made no secret of his designs"

Used in print

(Edward E. Kelly, S.J., "Christian Unity in England"...)

In representing part of this new picture , I will be recounting some of my own personal experiences , reactions and judgments ; but my primary aim is to transcribe what Englishmen themselves are saying and writing and implying about the Roman and Anglican_Churches and about the present religious state of England .

(Organic Gardening and Farming,...)

Nature 's aim , different from ours , is to provide for the coming generation .

(Edward Austin Walton, "On Education for the Interior...)

Few will quarrel with the aim of the schools or with the wording of their curriculum .

(Tristram P. Coffin, "Folklore in the American Twentieth...)

But we must never forget , most_of the appropriate heroes and their legends were created overnight , to answer immediate needs , almost always with conscious aims and ends .

That much of what he calls folklore is the result of beliefs carefully sown among the people with the conscious aim of producing a desired mass emotional reaction to a particular situation or set of situations is irrelevant .

2
[ verb ] aim or direct at; as of blows, weapons, or objects such as photographic equipment

Examples

"Please don't aim at your little brother!" "He trained his gun on the burglar" "Don't train your camera on the women" "Take a swipe at one's opponent"

Used in print

(Harold Rosenberg, "The Trial and Eichmann"...)

But if there was evidence at the Trial that aimed over Eichmann 's head at his collaborators in the societies where he functioned , the press seems to have missed it .

(Gene Caesar, Rifle for Rent....)

For the unseen , ghostlike rifleman aimed a_little higher the third time .

3
[ verb ] propose or intend

Examples

"I aim to arrive at noon"

Used in print

(Ann Hebson, The Lattimer Legend....)

I aim to keep a_little whisky still back in the ridge for my pleasure '' .

Related terms

intend purpose intent

4
[ verb ] move into a desired direction of discourse

Synonyms

get drive

Examples

"What are you driving at?"

Used in print

(Robert E. Lane, The Liberties of Wit: Humanism, Critici...)

William_Wimsatt and Cleanth_Brooks , it seems to me , have a penetrating insight into the way in_which this control is effected : `` For if we say poetry is to talk of beauty and love ( and yet not aim at exciting erotic emotion or even an emotion of Platonic esteem ) and if it is to talk of anger and murder ( and yet not aim at arousing anger and indignation ) - then it may be that the poetic way of dealing with these emotions will not be any kind of intensification , compounding , or magnification , or any direct assault upon the affections at_all .

William_Wimsatt and Cleanth_Brooks , it seems to me , have a penetrating insight into the way in_which this control is effected : `` For if we say poetry is to talk of beauty and love ( and yet not aim at exciting erotic emotion or even an emotion of Platonic esteem ) and if it is to talk of anger and murder ( and yet not aim at arousing anger and indignation ) - then it may be that the poetic way of dealing with these emotions will not be any kind of intensification , compounding , or magnification , or any direct assault upon the affections at_all .

Something indirect , mixed , reconciling , tensional might well be the stratagem , the devious technique by which a poet indulged in all kinds of talk about love and anger and even in something like '' expressions `` of these emotions , without aiming at their incitement or even uttering anything that essentially involves their incitement '' .

Related terms

mean drift

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[ noun ] the goal intended to be attained (and which is believed to be attainable)

Examples

"the sole object of her trip was to see her children"

Used in print

(James Bryant Conant, Slums and Suburbs...)

Located in a bad slum_area now undergoing redevelopment , this school and its program are especially tailored to the vocational aims of its students .

(Charles Wharton Stork, "Verner von Heidenstam"...)

To get it out into the daylight 's glow Is my life 's aim both first and last , the whole .

(Edward Jablonski, Harold Arlen Happy with the Blues....)

It purported to be a reasonably serious attempt at a treatment of jazz_musicians , their aims , their problems - the tug-of-war between the `` pure '' and the `` commercial '' - and seemed a promising vehicle , for the two men shared a common interest in jazz .

(87th Congress, 1st Session. Congressional Record....)

Its aim : To undermine further Cuba 's economy .

Related terms

goal thing business point target

6
[ noun ] the action of directing something at an object

Examples

"he took aim and fired"

Used in print

(Bruce Palmer, "My Brother's Keeper", Many Are...)

One man dropped to his knee for better aim .

Related terms

steering target

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[ verb ] specifically design a product, event, or activity for a certain public

Synonyms

direct calculate

Used in print

(Committee for Economic Development, Distressed...)

A training_program in a depressed area may have few enrollees unless there is some apparent prospect for better employment opportunities afterwards , and the prospect may be poor if the training is aimed solely at jobs in the local community .

Related terms

intend

8
[ verb ] direct (a remark) toward an intended goal

Examples

"She wanted to aim a pun"

Related terms

mean

9
[ verb ] intend (something) to move towards a certain goal

Examples

"He aimed his fists towards his opponent's face" "criticism directed at her superior" "direct your anger towards others, not towards yourself"

Used in print

(John Harnsberger and Robert P. Wilkins,...)

In June 1845 , the Governor and Council of Assiniboia imposed a 20 per_cent duty on imports via Hudson's_Bay which were viewed_as aimed at the `` very vitals of the Company 's trade and power '' .

10
[ verb ] have an ambitious plan or a lofty goal

Used in print

(Jim Thompson, The Transgressors....)

`` We aim t ' be see-lective , y_'_know ?

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[ noun ] (transportation) the direction or path along which something moves or along which it lies

Synonyms

bearing heading

Related terms

direction tack steer

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