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aim
  1. The pointing of a weapon, as a gun, a dart, or an arrow, or object, in the line of direction with the object intended to be struck; the line of fire; the direction of anything, such as a spear, a blow, a discourse, a remark, towards a particular point or object, with a view to strike or affect it.
  2. The point intended to be hit, or object intended to be attained or affected.
  3. Intention or goal
  4. The ability of someone to aim straight; one's faculty for being able to hit a physical target
  5. (obsolete) Conjecture; guess.
  6. Synonyms:
      7. end, design, goal, intention, target, object, objective, plan, point, purpose, ambition, aspiration, desire, intent, mark, wish, idea, scheme, course, dream, grail, resolve, direction, hope, ideal, pretension, meaning, bourn, bourne, desideratum, thing, desired result, holy grail, Holy Grail, object of the exercise, where one is heading, raison d'être, mission, motive, reason, motivation, inclination, want, longing, urge, vision, yearning, determination, hankering, resolution … more
  7. Examples:
      8. “The company's aim is to make the world a better place.”
      “He held his breath to steady his aim on the sniper rifle.”
aimlessness
  1. The state or quality of being aimless, or without purpose or direction.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. purposelessness, senselessness, pointlessness, emptiness, meaninglessness, worthlessness, inanity, hollowness, barrenness, valuelessness, insignificance, banality, unimportance, unsubstantiality, trivialness, insubstantiality, uselessness, futility, vanity, hopelessness, needlessness, stupidity, fruitlessness, ineffectiveness, ineffectuality, unproductiveness, idleness, triviality, profitlessness, frivolity … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “This will prevent the mind from sinking into discouragement or aimlessness.”
      “The feeling of aimlessness and enervation was alarming, and the resulting imagery memorable.”
      “He did not come to save his people from aimlessness, poverty or political adversity.”
aim
  1. Initialism of America Online. AIM; AOL Instant Messenger.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. end, design, goal, intention, target, object, objective, plan, point, purpose, ambition, aspiration, desire, intent, mark, wish, idea, scheme, course, dream, grail, resolve, direction, hope, ideal, pretension, meaning, bourn, bourne, desideratum, thing, desired result, holy grail, Holy Grail, object of the exercise, where one is heading, raison d'être, mission, motive, reason, motivation, inclination, want, longing, urge, vision, yearning, determination, hankering, resolution … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “The company's aim is to make the world a better place.”
      “He held his breath to steady his aim on the sniper rifle.”
aimer
  1. One who aims; one who is responsible for aiming.
  2. Examples:
      3. “After joining the RAF, he trained as a bomb aimer in Oxfords, Ansons and Wellingtons before joining a squadron of Lancasters.”
      “Crews consisted of a pilot, flight engineer, bomb aimer, navigator, wireless operator, and front and rear gunners.”
      “The aileron control of the aircraft was affected and the windscreen de-icing glycol tank burst, drenching Pilot Officer R. J. Hayhurst, the bomb aimer, and filling the forward part of the bomber with suffocating fumes.”
aimworthiness
  1. The quality of having good aim (with a weapon).
aiming
  1. The act of one who aims.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. aim, sight, directing, lining up
aimlessnesses
  1. plural of aimlessness
  2. Synonyms:
      3. purposelessness, senselessnesses, pointlessnesses, emptinesses, meaninglessnesses, worthlessnesses, inanities, hollownesses, barrennesses, valuelessness, banalities, insignificances, unsubstantialities, unimportance, trivialness, insubstantialities, uselessnesses, futilities, vanities, hopelessnesses, needlessnesses, stupidities, fruitlessness, ineffectivenesses, ineffectuality, unproductiveness, idlenesses, trivialities, profitlessness, frivolities, sterilities, abortivenesses, unfruitfulness, bootlessness … more
aimings
  1. plural of aiming
  2. Synonyms:
      3. aims, sight
aimers
  1. plural of aimer
aims
  1. plural of aim
  2. Synonyms:
      3. reasons, explanations, causes, rationales, arguments, basis, justifications, motivations, motives, objectives, drivers, excuses, grounds, impetus, incentives, premises, purposes, rationalisations, rationalizations, underpinnings, wherefores, whys, details, genesis, inspirations, instigations, intentions, origins, pretexts, ins and outs, causal agents, driving forces, principal elements, whys and wherefores, the full picture, platform, policy, manifesto, programme, plan, principle, tenets, plank, principles, program, party line, proposal, stump, political stance … more
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