honing (verb)

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• hone — verb (T) 1 to improve your skill at doing something, especially when you are already very good at it: He set about honing his skills as a draughtsman. | finely honed (=extremely well developed): finely honed intuition 2 to make knives, swords etc …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• hone — [[t]ho͟ʊn[/t]] hones, honing, honed 1) VERB If you hone something, for example a skill, technique, idea, or product, you carefully develop it over a long period of time so that it is exactly right for your purpose. [V n] Leading companies spend… …   English dictionary

• hone in on — ˌhone ˈin on [transitive] [present tense I/you/we/they hone in on he/she/it hones in on present participle honing in on past tense …   Useful english dictionary

• hone — I. noun Etymology: Middle English, from Old English hān stone; akin to Old Norse hein whetstone, Latin cot , cos, Sanskrit śiśāti he whets Date: 14th century whetstone II. transitive verb (honed; honing) Date: 1798 1. to sharpen or …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• hone in — intransitive verb Etymology: alteration of home in Date: 1965 to move toward or focus attention on an objective < looking back for the ball honing in George Plimpton > < a missile honing in on its target Bob Greene > < hones in on the plights and …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• set — I. verb (set; setting) Etymology: Middle English setten, from Old English settan; akin to Old High German sezzen to set, Old English sittan to sit Date: before 12th century transitive verb 1. to cause to sit ; place in or on a seat 2 …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• set — [c]/sɛt / (say set) verb (set, setting) –verb (t) 1. to put in a particular place or position: to set a vase on a table. 2. to put into some condition or relation: to set a house on fire. 3. to apply: to set fire to a house. 4. to cause to begin …  

• hon´er — hone1 «hohn», noun, verb, honed, hon|ing. –n. a fine grained whetstone on which to give a fine finish to the edge of cutting tools, especially razors. –v.t. to sharpen on a hone: »Figurative. We regret the delays, but it gives a chance to hone… …   Useful english dictionary

• George Carlin — Infobox Comedian name = George Carlin caption = Carlin in Trenton, New Jersey on April 4 2008 pseudonym = birth name = George Denis Patrick Carlin birth date = birth date|1937|5|12 birth place = Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States… …   Wikipedia

• Silicon carbide — Chembox new Name = Silicon carbide ImageFile = Silicon carbide 3D balls.png ImageSize = 140px ImageName = Ball and stick model of part of a crystal of SiC ImageFile1 = silicon carbide detail.jpg ImageSize1 = 140px OtherNames = Section1 = Chembox… …   Wikipedia

• Sharpening steel — or a honing steel is a rod of steel, up to one foot long, rounded in cross section, with longitudinal ridges, used for removing metal from the microscopic edge of blades. Sharpening steel is highly useful in sharpening knives, and scissors,… …   Wikipedia