0 a result that your plans or actions are intended to achieve: --
2 to intend: --
We are aiming for (= planning to achieve) a 50 percent share of the German market.
[ + to infinitive ] I aim to be a millionaire by the time I'm 35.
3 to point or direct a weapon towards someone or something that you want to hit: --
4 to point or direct a weapon or other object toward someone or something: --
5 to plan for a specific purpose; intend: --
This book aims at attracting the serious reader.
The measures aimed at preserving family life.
The aim of this study was to investigate outcome in frequent attenders in secondary care who present repeatedly with medically unexplained symptoms.
Party-based systems create career incentives for the legislator to support the overall aims of the parties.
Therefore, teachers have different teaching aims in their practices and form a variety of teaching approaches accordingly.
They aimed to fragment the township communities and divorce them from the tacksmen, thus removing the basis of the clan military, social and economic structure.
In particular, the book is aimed at signal processing practitioners, especially research workers and students working in areas of radar, sonar, telecommunications and biomedical engineering.
The restriction aims at reducing the combinatorial complexity of rule numbers due to the order sensitivity of phrase structure grammar.
The book is aimed at early level, new or returning adult piano students.
The present study aimed to assess, in a community sample, actions taken to cope with depression at different levels of psychological distress.