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Hone
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun Hone has 1 sense
- hone(n = noun.artifact) Array - a whetstone made of fine gritstone; used for sharpening razors; Array is a kind of whetstone
Derived form verb hone1
Verb Hone has 2 senses
- hone(v = verb.contact) Array - sharpen with a hone; "hone a knife" is one way to sharpen
- hone(v = verb.change) perfect - make perfect or complete; "perfect your French in Paris!" is one way to ameliorate, amend, better, improve, meliorate
Derived form noun hone1
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
CIDE DICTIONARY
Hone, v. i. [Cf. F. honger to grumble.
To grumble; pine; lament; long. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Hone, n. [Cf. Icel. h a knob.].
A kind of swelling in the cheek. [1913 Webster]
Hone, n. [AS. hān; akin to Icel. hein, OSw. hen; cf. Skr. çā, also çō, çi, to sharpen, and E. cone.
See Polishing slate . -- one of several kinds of stone used for hones. See Novaculite .
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. Tusser. [1913 Webster]
Hone, v. t.
- To sharpen on, or with, a hone; to rub on a hone in order to sharpen; as, to hone a razor. [1913 Webster]
- to render more precise or more effective; as, to hone one's skills. [PJC]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
Hone, n. & v.
--n.
1 a whetstone, esp. for razors.
2 any of various stones used as material for this.
--v.tr. sharpen on or as on a hone.
--n.
1 a whetstone, esp. for razors.
2 any of various stones used as material for this.
--v.tr. sharpen on or as on a hone.
Etymology
OE han stone f. Gmc
ROGET THESAURUS
Hone
Sharpness
N sharpness, acuity, acumination, spinosity, point, spike, spine, spicule, spiculum, needle, hypodermic needle, tack, nail, pin, prick, prickle, spur, rowel, barb, spit, cusp, horn, antler, snag, tag thorn, bristle, Adam's needle, bear grass, tine, yucca, nib, tooth, tusk, spoke, cog, ratchet, crag, crest, arete, cone peak, sugar loaf, pike, aiguille, spire, pyramid, steeple, beard, chevaux de frise, porcupine, hedgehog, brier, bramble, thistle, comb, awn, beggar's lice, bur, burr, catchweed, cleavers, clivers, goose, grass, hairif, hariff, flax comb, hackle, hatchel, heckle, wedge, knife edge, cutting edge, blade, edge tool, cutlery, knife, penknife, whittle, razor, razor blade, safety razor, straight razor, electric razor, scalpel, bistoury, lancet, plowshare, coulter, colter, hatchet, ax, pickax, mattock, pick, adze, gill, billhook, cleaver, cutter, scythe, sickle, scissors, shears, pruning shears, cutters, wire cutters, nail clipper, paper cutter, sword, bodkin, belduque, bowie knife, paring knife, bushwhacker, drawing knife, drawing shave, microtome, chisel, screwdriver blade, flint blade, guillotine, sharpener, hone, strop, grindstone, whetstone, novaculite, steel, emery, sharp, keen, acute, acicular, aciform, aculeated, acuminated, pointed, tapering, conical, pyramidal, mucronate, mucronated, spindle shaped, needle shaped, spiked, spiky, ensiform, peaked, salient, cusped, cuspidate, cuspidated, cornute, cornuted, cornicultate, prickly, spiny, spinous, spicular, thorny, bristling, muricated, pectinated, studded, thistly, briary, craggy, snaggy, digitated, two-edged, fusiform, dentiform, denticulated, toothed, odontoid, starlike, stellated, stelliform, sagittate, sagittiform, arrowheaded, arrowy, barbed, spurred, acinaciform, apiculate, apiculated, aristate, awned, awny, bearded, calamiform, cone-shaped, coniform, crestate, echinate, gladiate, lanceolate, lanciform, awl, awl-shaped, lance-shaped, awl- shaped, scimitar-shaped, sword-shaped, setarious, spinuliferous, subulate, tetrahedral, xiphoid, cutting, sharp edged, knife edged, sharp as a razor, keen as a razor, sharp as a needle, sharp as a tack, sharpened, set.
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