hone

noun · verb · interjectionA1

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noun

Plural noun:

hones

1.
A sharpening stone composed of extra-fine grit used for removing the burr or curl from the blade of a razor or some other edge tool.
2.
A machine tool used in the manufacture of precision bores.
3.
A kind of swelling in the cheek.

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verb

V_es/s

hones

V_ing/Gerund

honing

V_ed/pp

honed

1.
(transitive)To sharpen with a hone; to whet.
2.
(transitive)To use a hone to produce a precision bore.
3.
(transitive)To refine (a skill especially) by learning.
4.
To make more acute, intense, or effective.
5.
(Southern US, UK, US, dialectal, intransitive)(UK, US, Southern US, dialect, intransitive) To grumble.
Such tunges ſhuld be torne out by the harde rootes,
6.
(Southern US, UK, US, dialectal)(UK, US, Southern US, dialect) To pine, lament, or long.

interjection

1.
Synonym of alas Used to express sorrow, or grief
Đồng nghĩa: alas Used to express sorrow, or grief

Từ liên quan

Đồng nghĩa

alas Used to express sorrowor grief

Cùng gốc / liên quan

hone slatehone stonehonestoneTurkey honehone stone, honestonegrit sandpaper steel strop swarf

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Nguồn gốc từ

From Middle English hon (whetstone), from Old English hān, from Proto-Germanic *hainō (compare heen, hein), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱeh₃i- (to sharpen) (compare κῶνος, سان).