aim
宗旨,瞄准,宗旨是,旨
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Definitions
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- : to position or direct so that, on firing or release, the discharged projectile will hit a target or travel along a certain path.
- : to intend or direct for a particular effect or purpose: to aim a satire at snobbery.
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- : to point or direct a gun, punch, etc., toward: He aimed at the target but missed it.
- : to strive; try: We aim to please. They aim at saving something every month.
- : to intend: She aims to go tomorrow.
- : to direct efforts, as toward an object: The satire aimed at modern greed.
- : Obsolete. to estimate; guess.
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Phrases
- aim to
- take aim
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
The aim is to cause a domino effect that disrupts the global food-supply chain.
The aim is to let users correlate meals with changes in blood glucose levels.
The WhatsApp lawsuit, meanwhile, has taken aim close to the heart of NSO’s business.
In the context of these crises, our primary aim should be for a system where people are not obligated to work to generate the means to survive.
The aim is to let users see “detailed information about all the ads they see on the web,” but it will need to get broad buy-in and implementation of Ad Disclosure schema to get there.
And, as Gow adds wryly from his own personal experience, “To a huge extent they achieved that aim very well.”
It will still carry a pair of Raytheon AIM-120 AMRAAM long-range air-to-air missiles and a pair of bombs.
Sometimes, they had a backup aim if their main goal fell through as the night dragged on.
The Raptor carries six AMRAAMs and two shorter range AIM-9 Sidewinder missiles inside its weapons bays.
To “link up the beachheads and peg out claims well inland” was necessarily the first aim of Overlord.
To reproduce the impulse born of the thought—this is the aim of a psychological method.