Definitions for AIMS

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AIMS aim

Spelling: [eym]

IPA: /eɪm/

Aims is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 42 anagrams from letters in AIMS (aims).

Definitions for AIMS

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 AIMS

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 AIMS

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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