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aim

An aim is something you want to do or have done. The aim of the study was to find out if these students would talk differently to themselves during independent work. We certainly didn't accomplish the war aims set forward by the governments. The ultimate aim is to be able to cure the disease. If you take aim at something, you point a gun or other weapon at it. He takes aim and fires. If you take aim at something, you turn your attention to it. The book takes aim at politicians and their wasteful spending. Your aim is your skill in hitting something that you are shooting, throwing, kicking, etc. at. He threw the stone at the bird, but his aim wasn't so good.

aim

If you aim at doing something, you plan or try to do it. The new rules for cars are aimed at reducing speeds and improving driver safety. Many cities have a variety of programs aimed at helping the homeless. If you aim at something, you point a gun or other weapon at it. He grabbed for his gun, aimed it and started shooting.

aim

(= intent, intention, design) an anticipated outcome that is intended or that guides your planned actions his intent was to provide a new translation good intentions are not enough it was created with the conscious aim of answering immediate needs he made no secret of his designs (= take, train) point or cause to go (blows, weapons, or objects such as photographic equipment) towards Please don't aim at your little brother! He trained his gun on the burglar Don't train your camera on the women Take a swipe at one's opponent (= propose) propose or intend I aim to arrive at noon (= drive) move into a desired direction of discourse What are you driving at? (= object) the goal intended to be attained (and which is believed to be attainable) the sole object of her trip was to see her children the action of directing something at an object he took aim and fired (= calculate) specifically design a product, event, or activity for a certain public direct (a remark) toward an intended goal She wanted to aim a pun (= direct) intend (something) to move towards a certain goal He aimed his fists towards his opponent's face criticism directed at her superior direct your anger towards others, not towards yourself (= draw a bead on) have an ambitious plan or a lofty goal (= bearing) the direction or path along which something moves or along which it lies

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Simple sentences

Tom believes that he will achieve the aim.
We must achieve our aim at any price.
That aim is impossible to attain.
The democrat endeavored to accomplish his aim by himself.
My aim is to be a doctor.
I aim to be a writer.
I aim to be a doctor when I grow up.
He has no specific aim.
His aim in life is to save money.
His aim in life was to become a great doctor.
His aim is to become a professional singer.
His aim is to become a doctor.
His aim is to become a lawyer.
He achieved his aim at last.
The aim of science is, as has often been said, to foresee, not to understand.
I started to learn English with the aim of becoming a teacher.
I fail to understand his true aim.
All of us aim at success.
Trade companies aim at a new market in Asia.
He has only one aim in life, to make money.
They attained their aim.

Movie subtitles

The aim of the evening is for the designated murderer - let's say it was me - to move the required weapon into the required room.
Tell your clients, Mr Turner, that I do not aim to found upon the moon a criminal colony.
Do you really aim to stab Helius in the back?
Do you really aim to stab me in the back?
Well, now that you've got her all to yourself, what do you aim to do with her?
And the other is a little personal business I aim to transact at the end ofthe trail.
Company, take aim!
It's your fault for having such a wonderful aim with your gun.
Aim more accurately!
Courage, a good head and a better aim, that's about all that's required.
But from my struggling youth until today my principal aim has been to strive for truth.
I aim at the legs.
Yes, I aim to find out from Kent. why he's turnin' that poker game into a land-grab business.
Now what do you aim to do? - Nothin' at present.
The other is a little personal business I aim to transact at the end of the trail.
That's what I aim to do.
Yes? It's your fault for having such a wonderful aim with your gun.
And at three, take aim and fire at your own discretion.
He didn't even take aim at me.
We hunt for the truth. Some hunters have poor aim. Others shoot their dogs.
What? Did he.? Yes, he's got bad aim!
That's the kind of shooting' I aim to do.
Get down there! Aim well and fire slowly.
Which way do you aim to do it?
When I get hold of a pile of money-- which I aim to, and soon-- you'll be treatin'me right.
I aim to find it on top.
Taking aim.
Exactly in the moment you're achieving your aim, it's over.
Relax, I won't hurt them. I aim at the legs.
Now what do you aim to do?
Not me, Mr. Henderson. I aim to live a while.
Aim at the rabbit, not me.
And I aim to get him there in one piece.
I aim to, in Lordsburg.
No, but I aim to before sundown and I'm getting excited about it too.
Well, I reckon we better begin rousting them out if we aim to get out by daylight.
Well, we aim to take whatever they got.
You folks aim to buy anything?

News and current affairs

The CAP's original aim was to provide a secure source of food for the six original member states of the Union, which were importers of food and sought a degree of self-sufficiency.
The aim must be not only to win back the hearts of Europeans who have become skeptical, but also to convince them that the Union is indispensable to meeting the challenges Europeans face.
I trust that among the experts will be some who have pondered the underlying ethical question: how safe should we aim to be?
Putin's aim was to subject all power to the control of Russia's security forces.
Yet the declared American aim of building a Muslim democracy in Iraq will only enhance Turkey's symbolic importance as a role model.
Their aim is to do the most good they can with the resources that they are willing to set aside for that purpose.
The common aim should be to remove the threat posed by a dictator with so well-documented a predilection for weapons of mass destruction.
The aim of political terrorist groups, such as Al Qaeda, is to provoke retaliation and maximize publicity for their cause.
As the ECB's common monetary policy cannot fit the macroeconomic conditions of all the member countries, the eurozone countries need macro-prudential regulations that aim at reducing excessive credit growth.
Yet we must still ask whether a full-scale invasion is the only way, a necessary and proportionate way, to fulfil that aim.
This proposition overturned the previous Keynesian orthodoxy that macroeconomic policy should aim at full employment, with the control of inflation left to wage policy.
But the concrete policies needed to realize this aim are not, since reforming the welfare state and labor markets means more competition, which scares many citizens.
From an economic point of view, the Lisbon Strategy's aim is to transform Europe into a power able to compete on equal terms with the US today and the great Asian countries.
But this aim does not appear to be creating a European identity, as the euro has.
In mid-2007, the Commission confirmed that it will revisit the EU's dialogue with Mercosur, with the aim of giving new impetus to negotiations.
The aim was to strengthen cooperation as a means of creating a lasting peace.
America will soon try to appoint an Iraqi regime that will aim to cancel many of Saddam's oil contracts with France, Russia, and China, in order to make room for US and UK firms.
Nor is it clear whether its aim is to pressure Sudan into changing its policy or to bring about wholesale regime change.
Such incentives are targeted at foreign investors and the local elite, with the aim of stopping or even reversing capital flight.