Aim

Noun

 * 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, 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; purpose; design; scheme.

Verb

 * 1)  To point or direct a missile weapon, or a weapon which propels as missile, towards an object or spot with the  intent of hitting it; as, to aim at a fox, or at a target.
 * 2)  To direct the intention or purpose; to attempt the accomplishment of a purpose; to try to gain; to endeavor;&mdash;followed by at, or by an infinitive; as, to aim at distinction; to aim to do well.
 * 3)  To direct or point, as a weapon, at a particular object; to direct, as a missile, an act, or a proceeding, at, to, or against an object; as, to aim a musket or an arrow, the fist  or a blow (at something); to aim a satire or a reflection (at some person or vice).


 * 1) AIM; AOL Instant Messenger.

Adjectives for Aim
instructive; principal; lofty;  undeviating; murderous; intelligible; unerring; ultimate; personal; heroic; apparent; conscious; poetic; unselfish; generous; fictitious; ulterior; illusory;  deadly; deliberate; laudable; ambitious; elevated; unattainable; logical; altruistic ; devotional; basic;  sole; cherished; confessed; wild; sordid; infallible; sinister; paltry; futile; frustrated; irrelevant; altered; modest; fundamental; kindred; radical; novel; immediate; primal; vain; impracticable; double; sober; impossible.

Verbs for Aim
applaud; attain; baffle; cast out; define; design; disguise; dissipate; embrace; encourage; endorse; fulfill -; picture; promote; propose; realize; restrict; sanction; set forth; sum up; wander from; conflicts; elevates; succeeds; tends;  affect; avoid; calculate; direct; estimate; guide; hinder; lead; level; mark; miss; point; take; train; errs.

Adverbs for Aim
uselessly; deliberately; primarily; instructively;  immediately;   principally;  loftily; undeviatingly; murderously; unerringly; apparently; heroically; consciously; poetically; unselfishly;  generously;  fictitiously;  laudably; ambitiously; elevatedly; unattainably; logically;  altruistically;  basically;  solely; confessedly; futilely; frustratedly; irrelevantly; modestly; fundamentally;  radically; vainly; soberly; impossibly.

Synonyms for Aim

 * aspiration, design, end, intention, object, purpose, scheme, scope, tendency
 * goal, mark, endeavor, inclination, determination, tendency.

Antonyms for Aim
aimlessness, oversight, thoughtlessness, carelessness, heedlessness, neglect.

Thesaurus
address; affectation; aim at; ambition; angle; animus; aspiration; aspire; aspire after; aspire to; atmosphere; attempt; aura; azimuth; be after; be determined; bear; bearing; bend; bent; butt; by-end; by-purpose; cast; character; choose; complacency; concentrate; contemplate; counsel; course; covet; crave; current; descant; desideration; desideratum; design; desire; destination; destine; determination; determine; diapason; direct; direction; direction line; directionize; dispose; drift; drive at; effect; end; end in view; endeavor; essay; expect; feel; feeling; final cause; fix; fix on; fixed purpose; focus; function; game; go; go for; goal; harbor a design; have every intention; have in view; head; heading; helmsmanship; hold a heading; hold on; idea; idol; inclination; incline; intend; intendment; intent; intention; labor; lay; lead; level; level at; lie; line; line of direction; line of march; loftiness; lugs; mannerism; mark; mean; meaning; measure; melodia; melody; mind; mood; motive; navigation; nisus; object; object in mind; objective; orientation; ostentation; pant; piloting; plan; point; point at; point to; present; pretentiousness; prey; project; property; proposal; propose; prospectus; purport; purpose; pursuit; quality; quarry; quarter; quintain; range; reason for being; resolution; resolve; run; sake; seek; self-importance; semblance; set; show; sight on; steer; steerage; steering; strain; strive; striving; struggle; study; sweat; sweat blood; take aim; target; teleology; tend; tend to go; tendency; tenor; think; track; train; train upon; trend; try; tune; turn; turn upon; ultimate aim; urge; vainglory; vanity; verge; view; want; warble; way; will; wish; yearn for

Etymology 1
From amen:, aimen:, eimen:,  esmer:, asmer:, from  adaestimare:, from  aestimare:; or perhaps from  aesmer:, from  ad-: + esmer:.

Derived terms

 * aim at
 * ready, aim, fire!