HONE meaning: Sharpen or refine a skill

We found 37 dictionaries that define the word hone:

General (27 matching dictionaries)

hone: Merriam-Webster.com
hone, hone: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
hone, hone: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
hone: Collins English Dictionary
hone: Vocabulary.com
Hone, hone: Wordnik
hone: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
hone: Wiktionary
hone: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
hone: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
hone: Infoplease Dictionary
Hone, hone: Dictionary.com
hone (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
hone: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Hone (disambiguation), Hone (name), Hone: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Hone: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
hone: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
hone: Rhymezone
Hone: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
hone: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
hone: Free Dictionary
hone: Mnemonic Dictionary
Hone, hone: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
hone: Dictionary/thesaurus
hone: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)

Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

hone: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)

online medical dictionary (No longer online)
hone: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)

HONE: Acronym Finder
hone: A Word A Day
hone: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)

hone, hone: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
Hone: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)

AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

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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.

Opposite:

dull, blunt, unsharpened

Types:

oilstone, waterstone, ceramic stone, diamond stone, steel, more...

Phrases:

philip hone, william hone, nathaniel hone, evie hone, hone in on, more...

Adjectives:

fine, temporal, new, frontal, old, small, hyoid, belgian, late, occipital, white

Colors:

honeydew, amber, saffron, marigold, mustard, wheat, ochre, sepia, buff, beige

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