Definition of Aiming

1. Verb. Present participle of ''to aim''. ¹

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Definition of Aiming

1. aim [v] - See also: aim

Lexicographical Neighbors of Aiming

ailurophobia
ailurophobias
aim
aim'd
aim at
aimbot
aimbots
aimed
aimer
aimers
aimest
aimeth
aimful
aimfully
aimin'
aiming (current term)
aimless
aimlessly
aimlessness
aimlessnesses
aims
aimworthiness
aimworthy
ain
ain't
ain'tcha
aine
ainee
ainhum
ains

Literary usage of Aiming

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides, Henry Dale, Thomas Arnold (1873)
"... of tho people became his enemies on tho belief of his aiming at tyranny ; and though in his public capacity ho ..."

2. Manual of Mental and Physical Tests: A Book of Directions Compiled with by Guy Montrose Whipple (1914)
"TEST 11 Accuracy or precision of movement: aiming.—The purposes for which tests of accuracy of movement have been employed are practically the same as those ..."

3. The History of Sicily from the Earliest Times by Edward Augustus Freeman (1894)
"The next mention of him implies that of aiming his very ability caused him to be suspected of aiming at the suspected ..."

4. Proceedings by Philadelphia County Medical Society (1905)
"However, I have devised this guard, aiming to answer every requirement that might arise. This guard is composed of the protecting arm with a T-shaped end, ..."

5. The Scientific Monthly by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1921)
"aiming AT A WHALE (1902) immense cycle, whose center is indicated by the Azores, described by the mines in a period of about four years, such being the ..."

6. The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick (1893)
"If, however, the individual is not likely to obtain a maximum of Pleasure by aiming merely at Preservation, it remains to consider whether "quantity of ..."

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