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aim

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Use aimful in a Sentence
–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: to aim a satire at snobbery.
–verb (used without object)
3. to point or direct a gun, punch, etc., toward: He aimed at the target but missed it.
4. to strive; try (usually fol. by to or at): We aim to please. They aim at saving something every month.
5. to intend: She aims to go tomorrow.
6. to direct efforts, as toward an object: The satire aimed at modern greed.
7. Obsolete. to estimate; guess.
–noun
8. the act of aiming or directing anything at or toward a particular point or target.
9. the direction in which a weapon or missile is pointed; the line of sighting: within the cannon's aim.
10. the point intended to be hit; thing or person aimed at: to miss one's aim.
11. something intended or desired to be attained by one's efforts; purpose: whatever his aim in life may be.
12. Obsolete. conjecture; guess.
—Idiom
13. take aim, to sight a target: to take aim and fire.
Origin:
1275–1325; late ME aimen < AF a(e)smer, eimer, OF aesmer < VL *adaestimāre, equiv. to L ad- ad- + aestimāre (see estimate ); r. ME amen < OF (dial.) amer < L aestimāre

Related forms:
aimer, noun
aimful, adjective
aim⋅ful⋅ly, adverb

Synonyms:
1. point. 8. sighting. 10. target, objective. 11. goal; intent, design. Aim, end, object all imply something that is the goal of one's efforts. Aim implies that toward which one makes a direct line, refusing to be diverted from it: a nobleness of aim; one's aim in life. End emphasizes the goal as a cause of efforts: the end for which one strives. Object emphasizes the goal as that toward which all efforts are directed: the object of years of study.
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Based on the Random House Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2009.
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Word Origin & History

aim 
1330, "to estimate, calculate," from O.Fr. esmar, from L. aestimare "appraise" (see estimation); current meaning apparently developed from "esteem," through "calculate with a view to action" (c.1400), then "calculate the direction of a missile" (1573).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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