(v. i.) To point or direct a missile weapon, or a weapon which propels as missile, towards an object or spot with the intent of hitting it; as, to aim at a fox, or at a target.
(v. i.) To direct the indention or purpose; to attempt the accomplishment of a purpose; to try to gain; to endeavor; -- followed by at, or by an infinitive; as, to aim at distinction; to aim to do well.
(v. i.) To guess or conjecture.
(v. t.) To direct or point, as a weapon, at a particular object; to direct, as a missile, an act, or a proceeding, at, to, or against an object; as, to aim a musket or an arrow, the fist or a blow (at something); to aim a satire or a reflection (at some person or vice).
(v. i.) The pointing of a weapon, as a gun, a dart, or an arrow, in the line of direction with the object intended to be struck; the line of fire; the direction of anything, as a spear, a blow, a discourse, a remark, towards a particular point or object, with a view to strike or affect it.
(v. i.) The point intended to be hit, or object intended to be attained or affected.
(v. i.) Intention; purpose; design; scheme.
(v. i.) Conjecture; guess.
Example Sentences:
(1) The aim of this study was to describe the contents of daily reports in two homes for the aged.
(2) The aim of the present study was to bring forward data of acceptance of dental treatment for 3-16-yr-old children in a population with good dental health and annual dental care, and to evaluate the influence on acceptance of age, sex, residential area, and previous experience and present need of dental treatment.
(3) The aim of this study was to plot the course of the transcutaneously measured PCO2 (tcPCO2) in the fetus during oxygenation of the mother.
(4) The aim of our experiments was to investigate firstly whether during an acute inflammatory process platelets accumulate in the inflamed area and secondly whether the inflammation has an effect on the properties of the platelets.
(5) With the aim of evaluating the role of 1,25 dihydroxyvitamin D in the pathogenesis of osteoporosis, this hormone was studied in 90 subjects.
(6) The aim of this paper is to demonstrate that the problems which arise from simultaneously developing regulatory and competitive approaches to health care cost containment can be solved, if recognized, and that those problems deserve more systematic investigation than they have so far received.
(7) As Heseltine himself argued, after the success of last summer's Olympics, "our aim must be to become a nation of cities possessed of London's confidence and elan" .
(8) Based on the results of the Community AIM Exploratory Action, further collaborative work is required at EEC level to create an Integrated Health Information Environment (IHE) allowing essentially for integration, modularity and security.
(9) Treatment was divided into two categories named arbitrarily "no therapy" (general supportive measures) or "therapy" (causal treatment based on active drugs or measures aimed at affecting the cause of the disease).
(10) The aim of the study was to describe and evaluate background factors, with special regard to psychosocial characteristics that might possibly affect the outcome of rhinoplastic surgery.
(11) A new bill, to be published this week with the aim of turning it into law by next month, will allow the government to use Britain's low borrowing rates to guarantee the £40bn in infrastructure projects and £10bn for underwriting housing projects.
(12) The aim was to clarify the nature of their constituent cells, specifically the giant ganglion-like cells and spindle cells, and to discuss the implications for histogenesis.
(13) The aim of the trial was to determine the effectiveness of aspirin in preventing cardiovascular problems in people with asymptomatic atherosclerosis – the undetected build-up of waxy plaque deposits on the inside of blood vessels.
(14) This empirical fact has in recent years been increasingly dealt with in pertinent German-language literature, the discussion clearly emphasizing the demand that programmes aimed at the vocational qualification of unemployed disabled persons be provided, along with accompanying measures.
(15) The aim of the present study was to explore the possible role of heat shock proteins in the manifestation of this heat resistance.
(16) The aim of this study was clarify the physiopathological mechanisms underlying atrial pauses as well as to evaluate the sensitivity of sinoatrial conduction time (SACT) directly measured on SNE and of SACT estimated with the indirect Strauss method with respect to the detection of SSS.
(17) Beckham's decision marks the culmination of a strategy aimed at preserving his brand long after the footballer has faded.
(18) An antismoking campaign aimed at the 9-18 year old Genoese school population in 1981-1985 is described.
(19) The aim of the present study was to determine if dexamethasone treatment increased the rate of appearance in plasma of gut-derived glucose.
(20) The Ibiza Rocks hotel is aimed at a young clientele who'd never make it into the VIP section of Pacha.
(1) It included antibodies against cytokeratin (CK), vimentin (VIM), glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP), and muscle-specific actin (MSA); the latter three markers are associated with myoepithelial differentiation.
(2) An in situ hybridization technique using a biotinylated probe for the human VIM was applied to detect eventual cryptic translocations, as chromosome 10p is difficult to identify.
(3) Most of these cells were also immunostained for VIM in adjacent semithin sections.
(4) According to our results, most astrocytes in the adult rat optic nerve showed coexpression of VIM and GFAP.
(5) The coordinate expression of the nuclear p53 protein, cytoplasmic intermediate filament vimentin (VIM) and membrane epidermal growth factor receptor (EGF-R) was significantly associated with oestrogen receptor immunocytochemical nuclear stain (ER-ICA) negative breast carcinomas.
(6) Immunostaining of glycosphingolipids isolated from myeloid cells demonstrated that the SSEA-1 epitope is carried by several neutral glycosphingolipids and that the VIM-2 epitope is carried by three or more gangliosides.
(7) A high frequency (130 Hz) chronic Vim stimulation was performed in 4 parkinsonian patients, 2 of them having previously undergone a thalamotomy on the other side.
(8) Through the development of an indirect coupled assay, we have identified three in vitro activities in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae that can catalyze the proteolytic cleavage of the three COOH-terminal amino acids of the synthetic peptide substrate N-acetyl-KSKTK[S-farnesyl-Cys]VIM.
(9) Vim mRNA was not found in the fetal oral epithelia, dental lamina or the enamel organ, but a distinct immunoreactivity with monoclonal antibodies to Vim was seen in the stellate reticulum cells of the enamel organ.
(10) There was considerable overlap in the distribution of motor and sensory responses in the vicinity of the ventral intermediate (VIM) thalamus: however, motor responses, particularly irregular movements, tended to be confined within the VIM and ventro-oralis posterior (VOP), whereas sensory responses tended to be localized in the VIM and ventroposterolateral nuclei, with considerable extension into the ventroposterior subthalamic region.
(11) However, a major discrepancy existed for the expression of vimentin gene (VIM), which was high, even though the map location of the gene (10p) was missing in many cell lines.
(12) Two main populations were present: the major one being HLA-DR+, Cy mu+, VIM-D5+, TdT-, CALLA-, SmIg-; the minor one HLA-DR+, Cy mu+, VIM-D5-, TdT+, CALLA-, SmIg-.
(13) In hemangioblastomas, besides intervascular and endothelial cells, groups of polygonal cells are intensely positive for both VIM and GFAP.
(14) The significance of the coexpression VIM-GFAP and the restricted location of GFAP positive cells is discussed in relation with the maturation of pineal glial cells.
(15) Furthermore, the maturation of myeloid progenitor cells has been examined by delayed treatment with VIM-D5 and complement during the in vitro culture period.
(16) Both layers of the iris epithelium reacted with monoclonal antibodies (MAb) V9 and Vim 3B4 to vimentin, whereas the ciliary epithelia additionally reacted with MAb CAM 5.2, CK5, KS-B17.2, and CY-90, recognizing cytokeratins 8 and 18.
(17) As long ago as July 2007, Abbey's director of service quality, Vim Maru, told the Observer that "service has not been good enough", but its "action plan is on track".
(18) The VIM-D5 MoAb was used with rabbit complement (C'), whereas the 8.27 and SMY15A MoAbs were used in the presence of human C'.
(19) On the other side, a discrete lesion in Vim caused no sensory disturbance.
(20) After complement-mediated cytolysis with VIM-2, the number of BFU-e was significantly reduced; however, this effect was largely abrogated by addition of leukocyte-conditioned medium to the cultures as an exogenous source of burst-promoting activity.