AIMING

Definition: AIMING

AIMING

Personal pronoun & verb & noun

1. Of Aim

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "AIMING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Crosswords: AIMING

Sorry, I wasn't aiming at you. (In the Line of Fire; writing credit: Jeff Maguire)

Well maybe I overshot a little, because I was aiming at just enough to keep you from walking out. (As Good As It Gets; writing credit: Mark Andrus)

Maybe we were aiming high (Payback; writing credit: Brian Helgeland)

What was you aiming at (True Grit; writing credit: Charles Portis; Marguerite Roberts)

I am aiming at you right now. Can you feel it, Stu (Phone Booth; writing credit: Larry Cohen)

But I know since I've been aiming (LOVE IS IN CONTROL; performing artist: Donna Summer)

Aiming to shoot me down (I SHOT THE SHERIFF; performing artist: Eric Clapton)

Aiming High (1998)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Aiming for Excellence : Annotations to the NAGC Pre-K¿Grade 12 Gifted Program Standards (reference)

• Aiming for the Stars: The Dreamers and Doers of the Space Age (reference)

• Aiming High: Stirring Tales and Poems (reference)

• Aiming High: Success Stories of Leadership and Strategic Planning (reference)

• Aiming to Please. (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Hit What You're Aiming at (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Aiming for Girls & Missing (reference)

• Aiming in the Dark (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

U.S. Atlantic Fleet battleships entering the straits en route to the Pacific, circa 7-8 February 1908, during the World cruise of the "Great White Fleet". Photographed from the afterdeck of USS Georgia (Battleship # 15). Note her quarterdeck whaleboat, on davits in left center, and "dotter" gunnery practice aiming device at right. Credit: NAVY.

At anchor, circa mid-1910, after she had been refitted with two "cage masts". Note gun aiming practice devices fitted to her turrets. Credit: NAVY.

Seven young women aiming arrows at target, with another young woman standing in front of the target, at Camp Greystone, Tuxedo, North Carolina. Credit: Library of Congress.

Two men in the woods aiming rifles during hunt. Credit: Library of Congress.

Siege battery drill, aiming [United States Military Academy], West Point, N.Y. Credit: Library of Congress.

Aiming a Mortar, in Jacksons Connecticut battery. Credit: Library of Congress.

Children aiming sticks as guns, lined up against a brick building, Washington, D.C.?. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Armament (guns, machine guns, light machine guns, bombdropping apparatus, torpedo-dropping apparatus, synchronisation apparatus, aiming apparatus). (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

And still when I saw him aiming at you, I put up my hand upon the muzzle of the musket

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

The treatment involves aiming a high energy beam of light directly onto the leaking blood vessels. (references)

Once in place, this dye should not be washed off for the duration of the treatments, because it will be used as a guide for aiming the radiation. (references)

It involves aiming a beam of highly focused radiation directly on the AVM. The high dose of radiation damages the walls of the blood vessels making up the lesion. (references)

Business

This threatens the commercial viability of foreign projects aiming to turn a profit. (references)

Competition for this segment is fierce and suppliers aiming to sell to it should make no compromise on quality, reliability, or after-sale service. (references)

In July 1993, the State Council launched the Golden Card Project, aiming at promoting the use of bankcards and establishing a coherent bank card network across the country. (references)

Economic History

Bahrain

The company is aiming to raise USD 150 million in the Middle East. (references)

Netherlands

U.S. companies aiming to diversify will also find commercial opportunities in dual-use sectors. (references)

Morocco

The GOM is taking several drought relief measures aiming at supplying water and creating jobs in remote areas. (references)

Human Rights

Jamaica

Videotaped footage showed various gunmen with heavy weapons, while a tape broadcast on local television showed police firing indiscriminately from their positions without aiming their weapons. (references)

Trade

Azerbaijan

The ADB began operations in Azerbaijan in 2001, aiming to reduce poverty and promote socioeconomic development. (references)

Moldova

The most recently approved credit of USD 10 million is for the Health Investment Fund Project aiming at improving the quality of public health services. (references)

Worker Rights

Bangladesh

The first phase of the project, which involves a 2-month survey to identify children, their employers, and their families, began on August 22. Aiming to remove approximately 30,000 children from hazardous occupations and to prevent another 15,000 younger siblings from taking their position in the labor market, the project focuses on the beedi industry, the construction sector, leather tanneries, match factories, and the domestic work sector. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "AIMING": aiming circle ♦ aiming drill ♦ aiming field ♦ aiming position ♦ aiming screw ♦ aiming symbol ♦ aiming water ♦ automatic aiming ♦ remote aiming. Additional references.

Beginning with "AIMING": aiming-point.

Ending with "AIMING": bomb-aiming.

Albanian

të drejtuarit. (various references)

Arabic 

‏تصويب (aim, point, sight). (various references)

Bulgarian 

възнамеряване, намерение (aim, animus, design, drift, intent, intention, motion, notion, object, plan, purpose, scope, thought, view). (various references)

Chinese 

瞄准 (Aimed, Collimate, Collimated, Collimating, Targeted). (various references)

Danish

automatisk sporing (angle tracking, automatic aiming, automatic tracking, autotrack), automatisk pegesystem (automatic aiming, automatic pointing system), automatisk maalfoelgning (angle tracking, automatic aiming, automatic tracking, autotrack), vinkelmåler (aiming circle, goniometer), vinkelinstrument for artilleriformål (aiming circle), stilleskrue (adjusting screw, aiming screw, regulating screw), sigtesymbol (aiming circle, aiming field, aiming symbol), sigteinstrument (aiming device, sighting device), Pilotprojekter med sigte på at indarbejde idéen om et informationssamfund i de ugunstigt stillede områders udviklingspolitik (Pilot actions aiming at integrating the concept of the information society into regional development policies of less-favoured regions), justeringsskrue (adjusting screw, aiming screw, regulating screw), fjernstyret måleindstilling (remote aiming), fjernindstilling (remote aiming), diopter (aiming device, alidade, elevation scale, sight-bar, sighting device, sight-rule). (various references)

Dutch

automatisch volgen (angle tracking, automatic aiming, automatic tracking, autotrack), automatisch richten (angle tracking, automatic aiming, automatic tracking, autotrack), automatisch aanwijzingssysteem (automatic aiming, automatic pointing system), vizierinrichting (aiming device, sighting device), Tweede facultatief protocol bij het Internationaal verdrag inzake burgerrechten en politieke rechten (aiming at the Abolition of the Death Penalty, Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights), stelschroef (adjusting screw, aiming screw, attaching screw, binding screw, clamping screw, fastening screw, fixing screw, grub screw, grub screw with plain stem, headless set screw with unthreaded portion, hollow set screw, lock screw: locking screw, pinch screw: pinching screw, regulating screw, set screw), richtverbod (aiming suppression), richttoestel (aiming circle), richtingsbesturingslogica (aiming control logic), richten op afstand (remote aiming), Modelprojecten om het begrip informatiemaatschappij te integreren in het beleid inzake regionale ontwikkeling van minder bevoorrechte regio's (Pilot actions aiming at integrating the concept of the information society into regional development policies of less-favoured regions), lichtpen-vanggebied (aiming circle, aiming field, aiming symbol), fijnrichten (fine aiming). (various references)

Finnish

tähtäys (sighting). (various references)

French

visant, transitif, pointage, braquer (aim). (various references)

German

Zielend, zielen (aim, be aimed, be directed, intend, present), einstellung (abandonment, accommodation, adjustment, alignment, attitude, cessation, discontinuation, employment, engagement, enlistment, focusing, justification, modulation, orientation, outlook, recruiting, recruitment, setting, stance, stand, stopping, tuning), einrichtung (accommodation, adaptation, adjustment, appointments, arrangement, constitution, contrivance, equipment, equipping, establishment, facility, fitting out, fittings, furnishing, furnishings, incorporation, installation, institution, location, organization, scheme, setting, setting up, setup). (various references)

Greek 

το να σημαδεύει κανείς. (various references)

Hungarian

irányzás (elevation, guidance, pointing), célzás (aim, allusion, cue, hint, inkling, intimation, pointing). (various references)

Indonesian

pembidikan. (various references)

Italian

Azioni pilota finalizzate ad integrare il concetto di società dell'informazione nelle politiche di sviluppo regionale delle regioni meno favorite (Pilot actions aiming at integrating the concept of the information society into regional development policies of less-favoured regions), vite di regolazione (adjusting screw, aiming screw, regulating screw), soppressione del puntamento (aiming suppression), sistema di tracciamento automatico (automatic aiming, automatic pointing system), sistema di regolazione automatica dell'inclinazione del fascio di luce (automatic headlamp aiming system), simbolo di puntamento (aiming circle, aiming field, aiming symbol), Secondo protocollo facoltativo della Convenzione internazionale sui diritti civili e politici per l'abolizione della pena di morte (aiming at the Abolition of the Death Penalty, Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights), puntamento di precisione (fine aiming), puntamento automatico (angle tracking, automatic aiming, automatic tracking, autotrack), puntamento a distanza (remote aiming), inseguimento automatico (angle tracking, automatic aiming, automatic tracking, autotrack), circolo di puntamento (aiming circle, aiming field, aiming symbol), campo di puntamento (aiming circle, aiming field, aiming symbol). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

高望み (aiming too high), 着眼 (aiming at, attention, having an eye to, notice, observation, viewpoint), 正眼 (aiming at the eye). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

たかのぞみ (aiming too high), せいがん (accurate, aiming at the eye, during one's lifetime, oath, orderly, petition, regular, trim, well-organized, west bank, west coast, westward advance, while alive), ちゃくがん (aiming at, attention, having an eye to, notice, observation, reaching the shore, viewpoint). (various references)

Korean 

조준 (aim, AIMS, Pointing). (various references)

Manx

goaill reayrt er. (various references)

Pig Latin

aimingay.(various references)

Portuguese

visado, pontaria (aim, laying, pointing, punctuation, sight). (various references)

Russian 

наводка (laying, noise pickup), намереваться; поиск цели, прицеливание (aim). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

ciljajući. (various references)

Spanish

apuntado (laid, pointed, trained), puntería (aim, gunnery, marksmanship). (various references)

Swedish

syftning. (various references)

Ukrainian

наводка (sighting), прицілювання, прицільний. (various references)

Welsh

anelog (guided). (various references)

directione, directionem, directionis. (various references)

Derivations

Words ending with "AIMING": acclaiming, claiming, counterclaiming, declaiming, disclaiming, exclaiming, maiming, misaiming, misclaiming, overclaiming, proclaiming, quitclaiming, reclaiming. (additional references)

Misspellings

"AIMING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aahing, Aiman, aimant, aimi, Aimin, aimings, aining, Ainnit, Amidini, apiamin, Azimi, iming, oeming, oem'ing, Qimeng, taiming, Ximing. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: animi, gamin.

-2 letters: agin, amin, gain, inia, magi, main, mina, mini.

-3 letters: aim, ain, ami, ani, gam, gan, gin, mag, man, mig, nag, nam, nim.

-4 letters: ag, ai, am, an, in, ma, mi, na.

+1 letter: imagine, imaging, mailing, maiming.

+2 letters: admiring, admixing, claiming, emailing, giantism, ignorami, imaginal, imagined, imaginer, imagines, imagings, impaling, inarming, magician, magnific, mailings, miaouing, miaowing, miauling, migraine, misalign.

+3 letters: admitting, affirming, anglicism, animating, atomising, atomizing, bigeminal, climaxing, diademing, disarming, dismaying, enigmatic, examining, famishing, giantisms, gigantism, gimbaling, grimacing, grimalkin, imaginary, imaginers, imagining, imbalming, imbarking, imblazing, imitating, immigrant, impacting, impairing, imparking, imparting, impasting, impawning, inflaming, machining, magicians, magicking, magnifico, magnified, magnifier, magnifies, maligning, malignity, margining, mediating, migraines, migrating, migration, misacting, misadding, misaiming, misaligns, misdating, miseating, mislaying, mismaking, mismating, misnaming, mispaging, misrating, missaying, mistaking, ramifying, reimagine, reimaging, remailing, remaining.