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Definition: Hone |
HoneNoun1. A whetstone made of fine gritstone; used for sharpening razors. Verb1. Sharpen with a hone; "hone a knife". 2. Make perfect or complete; "perfect your French in Paris!". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "hone" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1886. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Chemical Industry | To produce a very fine finish by abrasion with extremely fine material. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
HONE | English | Hands-on network environment | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonym: HoneSynonym: perfect (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Sharpness | Sharpener, hone, strop; grindstone, whetstone; novaculite; steel, emery. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | We hone in, we're drawn, like perverted moths' (Coupling; writing credit: Steven Moffat) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Furyo bancho hone made shabure (1972) Zeitaku na hone (2001) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| "Hone" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 42.86% of the time. "Hone" is used about 42 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 (infinitive) | 42.86% | 18 | 82,615 |
| Noun (proper) | 21.43% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Noun (singular) | 16.67% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 14.29% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Unclassified Items | 4.76% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 42 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "hone" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Hone | Last name | 1,000 | 14,296 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "hone": hone down ♦ Hone slate ♦ Hone stone. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "hone": hone-stone. | |
| 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 | Expression | Frequency per Day |
hone | 96 | hone overdrive | 3 |
extrude hone | 37 | hone numbers | 3 |
cylinder hone | 24 | drive hone o | 3 |
depot hone | 21 | hone play | 3 |
flex hone | 18 | power hone | 3 |
hone sunnen | 16 | engine hone | 2 |
engine cylinder hone | 8 | ralph hone | 2 |
hone tru | 7 | book hone | 2 |
diamond hone | 7 | hone machine | 2 |
hone cuckoo clock | 5 | hone sunnen used | 2 |
cell hone | 4 | hone tuwhare | 2 |
heke hone | 4 | hone wagner | 2 |
ammco hone | 4 | extrude hone intake manifold | 2 |
hone number | 3 | ammco cylinder hone | 2 |
hone norah | 3 | diamond hone knife plus professional sharpener | 2 |
harry hone | 3 | hone stone | 2 |
brake hone | 3 | charles hone | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "hone"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | mpreh në gur, grihë (grinding wheel, grindstone, whetstone). (various references) | |
Arabic | حجر الشحذ (grindstone, whetstone), تاق (ache, aim, aspire, crave, desire, gasp, hanker, hunger, pant, want, wish, yearn), سن (age, dent, nib, notch, prong, sharp, tine, tooth), أضعف (attenuate, break, debilitate, decay, decline, depress, detach, diminish, disable, emaciate, emasculate, enervate, enfeeble, fade, geld, hurt, impair, incapacitate, invalidate, jellify, languish, lose weight, macerate, neutralize, pall, perish, reduce, run down, sag, sap, shorten, sink, slacken, slake, soften, subside, thin, waste, weaken), شحذ (be sharp, edge, grind, quicken, sharp, sharpen, sharpening, stone, strop, whet, whetting). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | хонинговъчна глава, хонинговам, хон, точа (edge, grind, reel, roll out, set, sharpen, throw, whet), точило (grinder, grindstone, knife grinder, strickle, whetstone), заглаждам (trim, turn), брус (burr, rubber, sharpener, whet, whetstone), дребнозърнест пясъчник. (various references) | |
Chinese | 细磨刀石. (various references) | |
Czech | ostřit. (various references) | |
Danish | hvæsse, honesegmentholder, slibesten (grindstone, pulpstone, whetstone), finslibe (to hone, to whet). (various references) | |
Dutch | hoonkop, wetsteen (grindstone, whetstone), slijpen (sharpen). (various references) | |
Farsi | ناله کردن (Bleat, Groan, Wail, Whimper, Whine), سنگ تیغ تیزکن , صاف کردن (Clear, Even, Face, Fine, Pave, Percolate, Perk, Plane, Serene, Sleek, Smooth, Strain, Unwrap, Urbanize), باسنگ تیزکردن . (various references) | |
Finnish | hiomakivi (grindstone, pulpstone), laahia, kovasin (whetstone). (various references) | |
French | rectifier, queux, pierre à aiguiser, faire maigrir, corps de rodoir, avoir envie de, aiguiser (to hone). (various references) | |
German | schleifstein (grindstone, whetstone), wetzstein (whetstone), honen (to hone). (various references) | |
Greek | σώμα λειαντικής συσκευής, πέτρα ακονίσματος (grindstone, whetstone), υψηλή λείανση, ακόνη ξηραφίων, ακονόπετρα (grindstone, whetstone), ακονίζω (sharpen). (various references) | |
Hebrew | ללטוש (sharpen, whet), לחדד (edge, point, sharpen, whet), להשחיז (grind, sharpen, whet), אבן משחזת (grindstone, whetstone). (various references) | |
Hungarian | fenőkő (honing stone, scythe-stone). (various references) | |
Indonesian | menggerinda, mengasah (whet). (various references) | |
Italian | cote (whetstone). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 剃刀砥 (razor strop). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | かみそりど (razor strop). (various references) | |
Manx | foyraghey (sharpen), clagh 'oyr, clagh hleeuee. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | onehay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | pedra de afiar (whetstone). (various references) | |
Romanian | tocilã (grinder, grindstone, rub stone, whetstone), piatrã de tocilã (whetstone), gresie, ascuţi (cultivate, edge, give an edge to, grind, intensify, point, put an edge on, refine, set an edge to, sharpen, strop, taper, whet, worsen). (various references) | |
Russian | точить....точильный камень, точить (sharpen, whet), точильный сланец, оселок (honestone, rubber, touchstone). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | brusiti (abrade), brus (grinder, whetstone, whittle). (various references) | |
Spanish | piedra de afilar (whetstone). (various references) | |
Swedish | hena. (various references) | |
Turkish | bilemek (abrade, grind, reset, sharpen, whet), bileği taşı (grindstone, knife grinder, oilstone, rubstone, sharpener, whetstone). (various references) | |
Turkmen | gaяramak (sharpen). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | точільний камінь, точити (edge, grind), гострити (sharp, sharpen, whet), дорожна праска. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | đá mài (rub-stone, turkey stone). (various references) | |
Welsh | hogi (sharpen, whet), hogfaen (whetstone). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "hone": honed, honer, honers, hones, honest, honester, honestest, honesties, honestly, honesty, honewort, honeworts, honey, honeybee, honeybees, honeybun, honeybunch, honeybunches, honeybuns, honeycomb, honeycombed, honeycombing, honeycombs, honeycreeper, honeycreepers, honeydew, honeydews, honeyeater, honeyeaters, honeyed, honeyful, honeyguide, honeyguides, honeying, honeymoon, honeymooned, honeymooner, honeymooners, honeymooning, honeymoons, honeys, honeysuckle, honeysuckles. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "hone": allophone, anglophone, cellphone, diaphone, earphone, francophone, geophone, gramophone, headphone, homophone, hydrophone, megaphone, mellophone, metallophone, microphone, ochone, outshone, phone, picturephone, polyphone, radiophone, radiotelephone, reshone, saxophone, shone, sousaphone, speakerphone, sulphone, telephone, vibraphone, videophone, xanthone, xylophone. (additional references) | |
Words containing "hone": allophones, autochthones, cellphones, diaphones, dishonest, dishonesties, dishonestly, dishonesty, earphones, geophones, gramophones, headphones, homophones, hydrophones, marathoner, marathoners, megaphoned, megaphones, mellophones, metallophones, microphones, morphophonemics, nonphonemic, nonphonetic, phoned, phonematic, phoneme, phonemes, phonemic, phonemically, phonemicist, phonemicists, phonemics, phones, phonetic, phonetically, phonetician, phoneticians, phonetics, phoney, phoneyed, phoneying, phoneys, picturephones, polyphones, psychoneuroses, psychoneurosis, psychoneurotic, psychoneurotics, pythoness, pythonesses. (additional references) | |
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"Hone" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Chonwe, haen, Hanae, Hane, hanel, hanne, hano, hanu, hasnae, Hene, heni, henne, henze, heona, Hien, hiene, hina, hinee, hinet, hinie, hinle, hino, hivnae, hne, hnen, hnet, hoane, hoce, hocn, hoen, hofe, hohne, hoine, Holne, hon, hona, honde, honeff, Honer, Hongen, honi, honie, honig, honke, honken, honn, Honnef, Honneur, honny, hono, honr, honre, hons, hony, Hooe, hoon, horne, hornez, houe, hoye, hoze, hudnae, Huen, Huna, Hunde, Hune, huni, Hunix, Hunne, huon, hynee, jone, Khouna, nohe, ohen, ohne, Ohno, thonne, yone. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "hone" (pronounced hō"n) |
| 2 | -ō" n | alone, atone, bemoan, blown, bone, bourguignon, clone, Cologne, condone, cone, crone, cyclone, dethrone, disown, drone, flown, groan, grown, hipbone, homegrown, intone, known, Leone, loan, lone, moan, Mon, outgrown, outshone, overblown, overgrown, overthrown, own, phone, postpone, prone, roan, Scone, sewn, shone, shown, sown, stone, throne, thrown, tone, trombone, trone, unbeknown, unknown, zone. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-h-n-o" | |
-1 letter: eon, hen, hoe, hon, noh, one. | |
-2 letters: eh, en, he, ho, ne, no, oe, oh, on. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-h-n-o" | |
+1 letter: foehn, heron, honed, honer, hones, honey, hosen, phone, shone. | |
+2 letters: chosen, cohune, dehorn, enhalo, enough, ethion, ethnos, foehns, gorhen, hereon, heroin, herons, hexone, hodden, hoeing, hoiden, holden, holpen, hondle, honers, honest, honeys, honied, honked, honker, honkey, honkie, horned, hornet, hoyden, noshed, nosher, noshes, nother, ochone, phenol, phenom, phoned, phones, phoney, senhor, throne. | |
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