Definition of aims

"aims" in the noun sense

1. purpose, intent, intention, aim, 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"

2. aim, object, objective, target

the goal intended to be attained (and which is believed to be attainable

"the sole object of her trip was to see her children"

3. aim

the action of directing something at an object

"he took aim and fired"

4. bearing, heading, aim

the direction or path along which something moves or along which it lies

"aims" in the verb sense

1. aim, take, train, take aim, direct

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"

2. aim, purpose, purport, propose

propose or intend

"I aim to arrive at noon"

3. drive, get, aim

move into a desired direction of discourse

"What are you driving at?"

4. calculate, aim, direct

specifically design a product, event, or activity for a certain public

5. target, aim, place, direct, point

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"

6. aim

direct (a remark) toward an intended goal

"She wanted to aim a pun"

7. draw a bead on, aspire, aim, shoot for

have an ambitious plan or a lofty goal

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Quotations for aims

Envy aims very high. [ Ovid ]

No man can ever rise above that at which he aims. [ Archibald A. Hodge ]

Charity and pride have different aims, yet both feed the poor. [ Proverb ]

Literature has other aims than that of harmlessly amusing indolent, languid men. [ Carlyle ]

Either virtue is an empty name, or the man of enterprise justly aims at honour and reward. [ Horace ]

What are the aims which are at the same time duties? They are the perfecting of ourselves, the happiness of others. [ Immanuel Kant ]

What are the aims which are at the same time duties in life? The perfecting of ourselves and the happiness of others. [ Jean Paul ]

The preacher aims by his eloquence at an archbishopric, the apostle makes converts; he deserves to get what the other aims at. [ La Bruyère ]

Balm that tames all anguish, saint that evil thoughts and aims takest away, and into souls dost creep, like to a breeze from heaven. [ Wordsworth ]

Literature positively has other aims than this of amusing from hour to hour; nay, perhaps this, glorious as it may be, is not its highest or true aim. [ Carlyle ]

Who shoots at the midday sun, though he be sure he shall never hit the mark, yet as sure he is that he shall shoot higher than he who aims but at a bush. [ Sir P. Sidney ]

Nature and art are too grand to go forth in pursuit of aims; nor is it necessary that they should, for there are relations everywhere, and relations constitute life. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

The coarsest father gains a new impulse to labor from the moment of his baby's birth; he scarcely sees it when awake, and yet it is with him all the time. Every stroke he strikes is for his child. New social aims, new moral motives, come vaguely up to him. [ T. W. Higginson ]

If you would learn to write, it is in the street you must learn it. Both for the vehicle and for the aims of fine arts, you must frequent the public square. The people, and not the college, is the writer's home. A scholar is a candle which the love and desire of all men will light. [ Emerson ]

I respect the man who knows distinctly what he wishes. The greater part of all the mischief in the world arises from the fact that men do not sufficiently understand their own aims. They have undertaken to build a tower, and spend no more labor on the foundation than would be necessary to erect a hut. [ Goethe ]

aims in Scrabble®

The word aims is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 6

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The word aims is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

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Words containing the sequence aims

Words that start with aims (1 word)

Words with aims in them (1 word)

Word Growth involving aims

Shorter words in aims

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Longer words containing aims

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