| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | 1. What one intends to do or achieve: ambition, design, end, goal, intent, intention, mark, meaning, object, objective, point, purpose, target, view, why. Idioms: end in view, why and wherefore. See PLANNED, PURPOSE. 2. The thread or current of thought uniting or occurring in all the elements of a text or discourse: burden2, drift, intent, meaning, purport, substance, tendency, tenor, thrust. See MEANING. | | VERB: | 1. To move (a weapon or blow, for example) in the direction of someone or something: cast, direct, head, level, point, set1, train, turn, zero in. Military : lay1. See SEEK. 2. To strive toward a goal: aspire, seek. Idioms: set one's sights on. See SEEK, START. 3. To have in mind as a goal or purpose: contemplate, design, intend, mean1, plan, project, propose, purpose, target. Regional : mind. See PLANNED, PURPOSE.
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