Definitions for AIM

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AIM aim

Spelling: [eym]

IPA: /eɪm/

Aim is a 3 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 17 anagrams from letters in AIM (aim).

Definitions for AIM

noun

1. the act of aiming or directing anything at or toward a particular point or target.
2. the direction in which a weapon or missile is pointed; the line of sighting:
3. the point intended to be hit; thing or person aimed at:
4. something intended or desired to be attained by one's efforts; purpose:
5. Obsolete. conjecture; guess.
6. American Indian Movement.

Idioms

1. take aim, to sight a target:

verb (used with object)

1. to position or direct (a firearm, ball, arrow, rocket, etc.) so that, on firing or release, the discharged projectile will hit a target or travel along a certain path.
2. to intend or direct for a particular effect or purpose:

verb (used without object)

1. to point or direct a gun, punch, etc., toward:
2. to strive; try (usually followed by to or at):
3. to intend:
4. to direct efforts, as toward an object:
5. Obsolete. to estimate; guess.

Origin of AIM

1275-1325; late Middle English aimen Anglo-French a(e)smer, eimer, Old French aesmer Vulgar Latin *adaestimāre, equivalent to Latin ad- ad- + aestimāre (see Examples for AIM

I don't know what you mean, and my only aim is to please master in everything.

It now becomes my aim today to lay siege to this town and capture it.

We aim at the assurance of a rounded and permanent national life.

And, as Gow adds wryly from his own personal experience, “To a huge extent they achieved that aim very well.”

To “link up the beachheads and peg out claims well inland” was necessarily the first aim of Overlord.

My whole study and aim was to do right—to be just to my hands and do my duty to my employer.

Their aim was to make beautiful art—and hopefully spark a conversation.

It is the aim of the present dissertation to accomplish this.

The aim is very pragmatic and much less idealistic than, say, similar protests in Egypt or Turkey in the last few years.

It just seemed Monday night, as it has throughout, that her aim was off.