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Definition of Aiming
1. aim [v] - See also: aim
Lexicographical Neighbors of Aiming
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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