aimer

American  

[aym-er] / ˈeɪm ər /

noun

• aimers
  plural

1. a person who aims a weapon at a target, especially a member of an armed force who aims bombs or heavy guns.

2. a device or feature, especially in video games, used to aim a weapon.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• aimers
  plural

Example Sentences

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aimer aimers

Johnson was a 21-year-old bomb aimer on the 1943 mission, codenamed Operation Chastise, by the Royal Air Force’s famed 617 Squadron.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 8, 2022

The Grande Duchesse of Gerolstein, the cheeriest moralist who ever occupied a throne, announces just before the curtain falls, "Quand on n'a pas ce qu'on aime, il faut aimer ce qu'on a."

From Castilian Days by John Hay

I should prefer it otherwise, but si on n'a pas ce qu'on aime il faut aimer ce qu'on a.

From Tom Brown at Oxford by Thomas Hughes

In the first case the unaccented, in the second the accented form has prevailed—Modern French parle, parler; aime, aimer.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 1 "Franciscans" to "French Language" by Various

The formation of such phrases as the French j'aimerai, for j'ai à aimer, or the English, I shall do, thou wilt do, may be called analytical or metaphrastic.

From Lectures on The Science of Language by Max Müller

Back in Britain, he opted to become a gunner until he discovered that bomb aimers got higher wages.

From BBC ● Dec. 8, 2022

I firmly believe that Little League pitchers can be much more effective than the current pasture of Dodger aimers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2021

It was knocked down at the second shot, so it was just as well to put the full price upon them at once, they were such remarkable good aimers at anything.

From Japhet in Search of a Father by Frederick Marryat

It was knocked down at the second shot, so it was just as well to put the full price upon them at once, they were such remarkably good aimers at anything.

From Japhet, in Search of a Father by Frederick Marryat