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Definition: HONED |
HONEDImperative & past participle1. Of Hone |
Date "HONED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1960. (references) |
Crosswords: HONED |
| English words defined with "HONED": coolly ♦ nervelessly, nonchalantly. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "HONED": hone operator, honing-machine operator, honing-machine operator, tool, HONING-MACHINE SET-UP OPERATOR, HONING-MACHINE SET-UP OPERATOR, TOOL ♦ job honer ♦ precision-honing-machine operator. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | A hundred years, just hanging out, feelin' guilty I really honed my brooding skills (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) It's a skill, honed over a lifetime (Dinotopia; writing credit: James Gurney; Simon Moore) It's time you honed some other skills (Dinotopia; writing credit: James Gurney; Simon Moore) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | This multi-disciplinary program draws on the Institute's expertise in immunology and microbiology, as well as its capabilities in drug and vaccine development honed as part of the research effort in AIDS and other infectious diseases. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "HONED" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 59.21% of the time. "HONED" is used about 76 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 59.21% | 45 | 50,900 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 28.95% | 22 | 74,468 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 11.84% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Total | 100.00% | 76 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "HONED": honed-steel. | |
Ending with "HONED": finely-honed, well-honed. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
granite honed | 12 |
honed | 10 |
honed marble | 5 |
honed tubing | 4 |
extrude honed | 3 |
honed slate | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "HONED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 磨刀 (Honing). (various references) | |
German | feingeschliffen. (various references) | |
Hebrew | מושחז (sharpened, whetted). (various references) | |
Manx | foyrit (sharpened). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | onedhay.(various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "HONED": megaphoned, phoned, siphoned, syphoned, telephoned. (additional references) | |
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"HONED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: hanad, hanned, hanod, hedned, Henden, henied, hined, hinet, hinid, hnet, hoane, hobed, hoded, hoeed, hoen, hohne, hoine, hona, honad, honde, Honer, honeyd, honie, honied, honned, Honnef, Honnold, honot, honut, hooden, hooned, hoved, howed, howned, hoxed, Hunde, Hunden, ioned, joned, ohne, oned, thoned. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "HONED" (pronounced hō"nd) |
| 3 | -ō" n d | bemoaned, boned, cloned, condoned, dethroned, intoned, loaned, disowned, droned, groaned, moaned, owned, phoned, postponed, stoned, toned, zoned. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-h-n-o" | |
-1 letter: done, hoed, hone, node, ohed. | |
-2 letters: den, doe, don, edh, end, eon, hen, hod, hoe, hon, nod, noh, ode, one. | |
-3 letters: de, do, ed, eh, en, he, ho, ne, no, od, oe, oh, on. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-h-n-o" | |
+1 letter: dehorn, hodden, hoiden, holden, hondle, honied, honked, horned, hoyden, noshed, phoned. | |
+2 letters: dehorns, dozenth, hedonic, hoddens, hoedown, hoidens, hondled, hondles, honeyed, honored, hordein, hounded, hounder, hoydens, hyenoid, notched, phonied, shodden, thonged, thorned, throned, unhoped, woodhen. | |
+3 letters: adhesion, anchored, beholden, bonehead, chenopod, dehorned, dehorner, demijohn, dethrone, diaphone, dihedron, dozenths, echinoid, elkhound, enhaloed, enshroud, forehand, hamboned, handover, handsome, hardnose, headlong, headnote, hedonics, hedonism, hedonist, hoedowns, hoidened, homeland, honchoed, honeydew, honoured, hordeins, hounders, hoydened, hydrogen, hyoidean, keeshond, longhead, methadon, monished, orphaned, overhand, phonated, phoneyed, sandshoe, siphoned, snowshed, sphenoid, syphoned, threnode, threnody, thronged, unchoked, unhooded, unhooked, unhorsed, unhoused, woodhens. | |
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