Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A fine-grained whetstone for giving a keen edge to a cutting tool.
- noun A tool with a rotating abrasive tip for enlarging holes to precise dimensions.
- transitive verb To sharpen on a fine-grained whetstone.
- transitive verb To perfect or make more intense or effective.
- intransitive verb To whine or moan.
- intransitive verb To hanker; yearn.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A circular barrow or hill.
- To linger; delay.
- noun A stone used for sharpening instruments that require a delicate edge, and particularly for sharpening razors; an oilstone. A hone differs from a whetstone in being of finer grit and more compact texture. See
honestone . - noun A thin piece of dry and stale bread; also, an oil-cake.
- noun A kind of swelling in the cheek.
- noun Delay; lingering.
- See
och hone . - To rub and sharpen on or as on a hone: as, to
hone a razor. - To pine; long; yearn; moan.
- To long for; crave.
- A dialectal contraction of hosen, plural of
hose .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A stone of a fine grit, or a slab, as of metal, covered with an abrading substance or powder, used for sharpening cutting instruments, and especially for setting razors; an oilstone.
- noun See
Polishing slate . - noun one of several kinds of stone used for hones. See
Novaculite . - noun A kind of swelling in the cheek.
- transitive verb To sharpen on, or with, a hone; to rub on a hone in order to sharpen.
- transitive verb to render more precise or more effective.
- intransitive verb Dial.Eng. & Southern U. S. To grumble; pine; lament; long.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
sharpening stone composed of extra-finegrit used for removing theburr orcurl from theblade of arazor or some other edge tool. - noun A
machine tool used in the manufacture of precisionbores . - verb To
sharpen with a hone. - verb To use a hone to produce a precision bore.
- verb To
refine ormaster (a skill). - verb To make more
acute ,intense , oreffective .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb sharpen with a hone
- noun a whetstone made of fine gritstone; used for sharpening razors
- verb make perfect or complete
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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Mays, I use the word hone, Mays practiced being Mays.
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(In the past, he's also offered fish such as sayori, needlefish, and hamo, daggertooth conger pike, an eel-like summer-season thing so bony that no one could figure out how to eat it until the people of Kyoto devised a special technique called hone-giri, to which Takayama-san has added variations of his own.)
If You Knew Sushi Tosches, Nick 2007
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(In the past, he's also offered fish such as sayori, needlefish, and hamo, daggertooth conger pike, an eel-like summer-season thing so bony that no one could figure out how to eat it until the people of Kyoto devised a special technique called hone-giri, to which Takayama-san has added variations of his own.)
If You Knew Sushi Tosches, Nick 2007
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Sunnen has launched the HTA actuator hone, which is said to be ideal for cylinder surfacing and engineered for production of gas-meter tubes as well as light-duty metal removal applications.
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Sunnen has launched the HTA actuator hone, which is said to be ideal for cylinder surfacing and engineered for production of gas-meter tubes as well as light-duty metal removal applications.
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(In the past, he's also offered fish such as sayori, needlefish, and hamo, daggertooth conger pike, an eel-like summer-season thing so bony that no one could figure out how to eat it until the people of Kyoto devised a special technique called hone-giri, to which Takayama-san has added variations of his own.)
How Now Brownpau 2009
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I 'hone' my skills with flower purchases at the supermarket or farmer's market and torture my husband by carving up my purchases in our sink.
In a Second Life Candid Engineer 2009
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For a guy who loves baseball and has loved it his whole life, this is a dream opportunity for me, to kind of hone in on a franchise and build it the way I see fit.
Nationals promote, extend Mike Rizzo Adam Kilgore 2010
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And what comes out of my head, we write down and I kind of hone into a bit.
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Up towards the Great Lakes, a cold air at the surface, it's snow but closer to the Gulf Coast and into portions of the Ohio Valley, it's mainly a rain even, but let's really kind of hone in on what you have at the great lakes.
yarb commented on the word hone
...the bereaved Parnassian
hones a canine tooth,
sharpens a pencil.
- Peter Reading, Minima, from Diplopic, 1983
June 30, 2008
larry_kunz commented on the word hone
Many authorities consider "hone in" to be incorrect usage. I know I do. My preference is "home in."
October 27, 2010