The pointing of aweapon, as agun, adart, or anarrow, or object, in the line ofdirection with the object intended to be struck; theline of fire; the direction of anything, such as aspear, ablow, adiscourse, aremark, towards a particular point or object, with a view to strike or affect it.
to takeaim
Take time with theaim of your gun.
The point intended to be hit, or object intended to be attained or affected.
There is no doubt at all that this is the future of machinery, and just as trees grow while the country gentleman is asleep, so while Humanity will be amusing itself, or enjoying cultivated leisure—which, and not labour, is theaim of man—or making beautiful things, or reading beautiful things, or simply contemplating the world with admiration and delight, machinery will be doing all the necessary and unpleasant work.
2012, Francesca Valensise,From Building Fabric to City Form: Reconstruction in Calabria at end of Eighteenth Century[1], Gangemi Editore spa,→ISBN, page 8:
As a matter of fact the Enlightment culture was based on a philosophy inspired to an ethical laicism whoseaim was to create a better society based on principles such as solidarity, equality of rights and duties, and full freedom.
The ability of someone to aim straight; one’s faculty for being able to hit a physical target.
The police officer has excellentaim, always hitting the bullseye in shooting practice.
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aim (third-person singular simple presentaims,present participleaiming,simple past and past participleaimed)
(intransitive) To point or direct a missile, or a weapon which propels as missile, towards an object or spot with the intent of hitting it
Heaimed at the target, but the arrow flew straight over it.
(intransitive) 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
The stories did not seem to me to touch life. They were plainly intended to have a bracing moral effect, and perhaps had this result for the people at whom they wereaimed.
Risk is everywhere.[…]For each one there is a frighteningly precise measurement of just how likely it is to jump from the shadows and get you. “The Norm Chronicles”[…]aims to help data-phobes find their way through this blizzard of risks.
(transitive) 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
toaim an arrow at the deer
Sheaimed a punch at her ex-boyfriend.
(transitive) To direct (something verbal) towards a certain person, thing, or group
toaim a satirical comment at Communists in general
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Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the criticaltonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.
Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor,A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published1867,page84
