Word Meanings - AIM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

amen, aimen, eimen, to guess at, to estimate, to aim, OF. esmer, asmer, fr. L. aestimare to estimate; or perh. fr. OF. aesmer; ad) + 1. To point or direct a missile weapon, or a weapon which propels as missile, towards an object or spot with the

Additional info about word: AIM

amen, aimen, eimen, to guess at, to estimate, to aim, OF. esmer, asmer, fr. L. aestimare to estimate; or perh. fr. OF. aesmer; ad) + 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 indention or purpose; to attempt the accomplishment of a purpose; to try to gain; to endeavor; -- followed by at, or by an infinitive; as, to aim at distinction; to aim to do well. Aim'st thou at princes Pope. 3. To guess or conjecture. Shak.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of AIM)

• Aspiration
• Longing
• desire
• aim
• wish
• craving
• ambition
• endeavor
• hope
• appetition
• effort
• eagerness
• Destination
• Purpose
• intention
• design
• consignment
• object
• end
• fate
• doom
• arrival
• application
• use
• scope
• appointment
• point
• location
• goal
• Drift
• Tendency
• direction
• motion
• tenor
• meaning
• purport
• purpose
• result
• issue
• conclusion
• course
• fulfill
• Design
• drift
• view
• Level
• Plane
• surface
• floor
• equality
• platform
• ground
• coordinateness
• horizontally

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of AIM)

• Roughen
• furrow
• disequalize
• graduate
• Chance
• risk
• hazard
• revoke
• Miscalculate
• venture
• stake
• Originate
• arise
• precede
• spring
• commence
• start
• begin

Related words: (words related to AIM)

• LONG-SUFFERANCE
  Forbearance to punish or resent.
• SPREADINGLY
  , adv. Increasingly. The best times were spreadingly infected. Milton.
• CHANCELLERY
  Chancellorship. Gower.
• HAZARDIZE
  A hazardous attempt or situation; hazard. Herself had run into that hazardize. Spenser.
• DESIGN
  drawing, dessein a plan or scheme; all, ultimately, from L. designare to designate; de- + signare to mark, mark out, signum mark, sign. See 1. To draw preliminary outline or main features of; to sketch for a pattern or model; to delineate; to trace
• REVOKER
  One who revokes.
• LONGIPALP
  One of a tribe of beetles, having long maxillary palpi.
• PLANE TREE
  See PLANE
• INTENTIONALITY
  The quality or state of being intentional; purpose; design. Coleridge.
• OBJECTIVENESS
  Objectivity. Is there such a motion or objectiveness of external bodies, which produceth light Sir M. Hale
• SPRINGBOARD
  An elastic board, secured at the ends, or at one end, often by elastic supports, used in performing feats of agility or in exercising.
• LONGSPUN
  Spun out, or extended, to great length; hence, long-winded; tedious. The longspun allegories fulsome grow, While the dull moral lies too plain below. Addison.
• GROUNDWORK
  That which forms the foundation or support of anything; the basis; the essential or fundamental part; first principle. Dryden.
• SPRINGE
  A noose fastened to an elastic body, and drawn close with a sudden spring, whereby it catches a bird or other animal; a gin; a snare. As a woodcock to mine own springe. Shak.
• DESIGNATE
  Designated; appointed; chosen. Sir G. Buck.
• DRIFTBOLT
  A bolt for driving out other bolts.
• SPRINGAL
  An ancient military engine for casting stones and arrows by means of a spring.
• SCOPELINE
  Scopeloid.
• PURPOSELESS
  Having no purpose or result; objectless. Bp. Hall. -- Pur"pose*less*ness, n.
• LONGSOME
  Extended in length; tiresome. Bp. Hall. Prior. -- Long"some*ness, n. Fuller.
• DISPROPORTIONALLY
  In a disproportional manner; unsuitably in form, quantity, or value; unequally.
• DISVENTURE
  A disadventure. Shelton.
• MISGROUND
  To found erroneously. "Misgrounded conceit." Bp. Hall.
• HAEMATOSCOPE
  A hæmoscope.
• MISDEMEAN
  To behave ill; -- with a reflexive pronoun; as, to misdemean one's self.
• DEMEANURE
  Behavior. Spenser.
• EXCITO-MOTION
  Motion excited by reflex nerves. See Excito-motory.
• LACTOSCOPE
  An instrument for estimating the amount of cream contained in milk by ascertaining its relative opacity.
• DISPROPORTIONALITY
  The state of being disproportional. Dr. H. More.
• METEOROSCOPE
  An astrolabe; a planisphere. An instrument for measuring the position, length, and direction, of the apparent path of a shooting star.
• DISPROPORTIONABLE
  Disproportional; unsuitable in form, size, quantity, or adaptation; disproportionate; inadequate. -- Dis`pro*por"tion*a*ble*ness, n. Hammond. -- Dis`pro*por"tion*a*bly, adv.