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单词 to make aim
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to make aim
P1. to take aim: to aim or direct a weapon, missile, blow, etc., at a target; also (now less commonly) to make aim and in extended use. [Perhaps compare Anglo-Norman and Old French, Middle French faire esme de to have or show the intention of (doing something) (12th cent.; also mid 13th cent. in Old French in an apparently isolated attestation as faire asme de).]
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > discharge missile [verb (intransitive)] > aim
to take aima1450
aim1566
to bring to bear1619
the world > space > direction > point or lie in a direction [verb (intransitive)] > aim
cast1340
aimc1380
set14..
to lay, bend, take level1548
butt1553
vizyc1600
to level one's aim1667
to make aim1796
sight1842
a1450Made ame [see sense 2a].
1545 R. Ascham Toxophilus ii. f. 39 At an other mans shote you can not wel take Ame.
1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream ii. i. 157 A certaine aime he tooke At a faire Vestall. View more context for this quotation
1658 W. Gurnall Christian in Armour: 2nd Pt. 337 Though God takes his aim at man, and levels his arrows primarily at his very heart; yet as they go, they slent upon the creature.
1726 J. Swift Cadenus & Vanessa 23 The Urchin..Took Aim, and shot with all his Strength A Dart.
1764 O. Goldsmith Traveller 21 Where beasts with man divided empire claim, And the brown Indian takes a deadly aim.
1796 F. Burney Camilla II. iii. iv. 70 Gone in hopes of a rencounter, I doubt not..; he made palpable aim at one of the divinities of Cleves at the ball.
1826 Scotsman 8 Mar. 145/1 It is their practice to take aim at an opponent's feelings instead of his arguments.
1868 Queen Victoria Jrnl. 72 Macdonald whispered that he saw stags, and that Albert should wait and take a steady aim.
1908 G. K. Chesterton Man who was Thursday iii. 46 He caught up the Colt's revolver and took aim at Syme.
1934 M. Herskovits & F. Herskovits Rebel Destiny iii. 56 The macaw now did not trouble to fly away, and when Angita made aim once more, Sedefo stopped him.
1960 Pop. Sci. July 108/2 I cocked my Nikon and took aim.
2005 Sydney Morning Herald 6 Aug. 37/1 (heading) The doyen of zombie land takes aim at corporate corruption in his latest flesh-eating extravaganza.
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