hone in
verb/hoʊn ɪn/US/həʊn ɪn/UK
Etymology
By confusion between hone and home.
Definitions
Alternative form of home in.
- More than half of those are completely ignored by de Róiste. He hones in on only 400 of those, scattered around the country.
- On June 12th The Economist’s pages featured an activist investor “honing in on the dearth of energy experience” on a company’s board. A few readers honed in on a solecism: […]
- The mainstream media hones in on bad news stories where UK railways are concerned, yet gives scant attention to the many items of good news emerging from the network.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for hone in. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA