hone meaning

• Noun: hone  hown
  1. A whetstone made of fine gritstone; used for sharpening razors
  Verb: hone  hown
  1. Sharpen with a hone
     "hone a knife" 
  2. Make perfect or complete
     - perfect

  Derived forms: honed, hones, honing

  Type of: ameliorate, amend, better, improve, meliorate, sharpen, whetstone

  Encyclopedia: Hone, AO Hone Hone, Italy Hone, Aosta

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  [Architecture]
  

  Same as oilstone.

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  [Business]
  AmE / verb [+ obj]

  to develop and improve sth, especially a skill, over a period of time:

  She's a finance expert who has honed her skills working for top accounting firms.

• His loner instincts are honed sharp by the spying game.
• His wife, a tiny woman with the profile of a finely honed hatchet.
• The advance team was at the peak of their self-confidence, honed by political campaigns to a razor-edge.
• He had seen them shape the knives from white-hot metal, temper them in cold water, then hone them to glistening sharpness.
• By honing those skills which make me useful ..
• Really honed my eavesdropping skills that year
• This is where we're really gonna hone our skills
• The design and study on ultrasonic reaming and honing device
• By honing those skills which make me useful
• All the family were at hone when he went by yesterday

• "hone" meaning in Chinese: 短语和例子 hone 1 n. 1.细磨刀石。2.【机械工程】磨孔器。 vt. 1.(在细磨刀石上)磨。2....
• "hone" meaning in Japanese: hone剃刀砥かみそりど
• "hone" meaning in Korean: noun, vt, 면도날 숫돌, 숫돌로 갈다
• "hone" meaning in Russian: 1) _диал. ворчать, роптать; стонать, хныкать2) (for, after...
• "hone" meaning in Arabic: n. حجر الشحذ
• "hone" meaning in French: n. pierre à aiguiser v. aiguiser