英语词汇“hone”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

The verb hone means to sharpen skills. When you practice shooting baskets every day after school, you are honing your skills as a basketball player.

Hone, the verb, literally means to sharpen with a hone, a whetstone used to sharpen cutting tools. Use hone to describe someone working hard, perfecting or sharpening skills, as in "She is honing her skills as an actress by working in community theater." Hone, which rhymes with phone, is from the Old English word, han, meaning "stone, rock."

CHOOSE YOUR WORDS

hone / home

To hone is to sharpen a knife or perfect a skill. Home is where you live, where your stuff is, is where the heart is, and all that.

Hone in or hone in on, is an eggcorn for home in on. (An eggcorn is a word accidently used for another word that sounds similar, like saying eggcorn instead of acorn.)

Home in on (with an "m") means to move toward an object or goal, like a missile zooming towards a target. Or as a homing pigeon does, which is where the term comes from. Here are some examples:

Another international e-commerce site that has homed in on the Brazilian market is farfetch.com. (New York Times)

Bedbugs are active at night, leaving their hiding places to home in on body warmth or carbon dioxide to reach their victims. (Monsters and Critics)

Hone is to sharpen something, like a blade or your attention in math class. The only reason people get it confused with home is when hone horns in on home in.

Although you can make something pointy by honing, when you try to hit a target, you home in on it, like going home after a long day.

WORD FAMILY

hone: honed, hones, honing

USAGE EXAMPLES

Former guide David Sandager told the rookies he honed his objective to highlight the building as a showpiece of Minnesota.

Washington Times(Dec 31, 2016)

“And to get to 22, I’m still trying to hone in on 11. It’s pretty shocking.”

Washington Post(Dec 29, 2016)

They would be honing in on her mind.

Washington Post(Dec 29, 2016)

1v sharpen with a hone

hone a knife

Hypo|Hyper

set

give a fine, sharp edge to a knife or razor

sharpen

make sharp or sharper

2v make perfect or complete

Syn|Hypo|Hyper

perfect

optimise, optimize

make optimal; get the most out of; use best

brush up, polish, polish up, round, round off

bring to a highly developed, finished, or refined state

ameliorate, amend, better, improve, meliorate

to make better

3n a whetstone made of fine gritstone; used for sharpening razors

Hyper

whetstone

a flat stone for sharpening edged tools or knives

单词	hone
释义	hone (once / 3780 pages) vn The verb hone means to sharpen skills. When you practice shooting baskets every day after school, you are honing your skills as a basketball player. Hone, the verb, literally means to sharpen with a hone, a whetstone used to sharpen cutting tools. Use hone to describe someone working hard, perfecting or sharpening skills, as in "She is honing her skills as an actress by working in community theater." Hone, which rhymes with phone, is from the Old English word, han, meaning "stone, rock." CHOOSE YOUR WORDS hone / home To hone is to sharpen a knife or perfect a skill. Home is where you live, where your stuff is, is where the heart is, and all that. Hone in or hone in on, is an eggcorn for home in on. (An eggcorn is a word accidently used for another word that sounds similar, like saying eggcorn instead of acorn.) Home in on (with an "m") means to move toward an object or goal, like a missile zooming towards a target. Or as a homing pigeon does, which is where the term comes from. Here are some examples: Another international e-commerce site that has homed in on the Brazilian market is farfetch.com. (New York Times) Bedbugs are active at night, leaving their hiding places to home in on body warmth or carbon dioxide to reach their victims. (Monsters and Critics) Hone is to sharpen something, like a blade or your attention in math class. The only reason people get it confused with home is when hone horns in on home in. Although you can make something pointy by honing, when you try to hit a target, you home in on it, like going home after a long day. WORD FAMILY hone: honed, hones, honing USAGE EXAMPLES Former guide David Sandager told the rookies he honed his objective to highlight the building as a showpiece of Minnesota. Washington Times(Dec 31, 2016) “And to get to 22, I’m still trying to hone in on 11. It’s pretty shocking.” Washington Post(Dec 29, 2016) They would be honing in on her mind. Washington Post(Dec 29, 2016) 1v sharpen with a hone hone a knife Hypo\|Hyper set give a fine, sharp edge to a knife or razor sharpen make sharp or sharper 2v make perfect or complete Syn\|Hypo\|Hyper perfect optimise, optimize make optimal; get the most out of; use best brush up, polish, polish up, round, round off bring to a highly developed, finished, or refined state ameliorate, amend, better, improve, meliorate to make better 3n a whetstone made of fine gritstone; used for sharpening razors Hyper whetstone a flat stone for sharpening edged tools or knives
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