Usually means: Sharpen or refine a skill.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. hone: Merriam-Webster
  2. hone, hone: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hone, hone: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. hone: Collins English Dictionary
  5. hone: Vocabulary.com
  6. Hone, hone: Wordnik
  7. hone: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. hone: Wiktionary
  9. hone: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. hone: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. hone: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Hone, hone: Dictionary.com
  13. hone (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. hone: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Hone (disambiguation), Hone (name), Hone: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Hone: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. hone: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. hone: Rhymezone
  19. Hone: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. hone: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. hone: FreeDictionary.org
  22. hone: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. hone: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. hone: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. hone: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hone: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. hone: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. HONE: Acronym Finder
  2. hone: A Word A Day
  3. hone: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. hone, hone: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Hone: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

(Note: See honed as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  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.
noun:  A machine tool used in the manufacture of precision bores.
verb:  (transitive) To sharpen with a hone; to whet.
verb:  (transitive) To use a hone to produce a precision bore.
verb:  (transitive) To refine or master (a skill).
verb:  To make more acute, intense, or effective.
noun:  A kind of swelling in the cheek.
verb:  (UK, US, Southern US, dialect, intransitive) To grumble.
verb:  (UK, US, Southern US, dialect) To pine, lament, or long.
noun:  A surname.

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