hone

Etymology 1
From, from , from (compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬), from  (compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬).

Noun

 * 1) 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.
 * 2) A machine tool used in the manufacture of precision bores.

Translations

 * Azerbaijani: bülöv, bülöv daşı
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan: esmoladora
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech: brousek,
 * Danish: slibesten
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: akrigilo
 * Finnish: liippakivi
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: ἀκόνη, θηγάνη
 * Italian:, cote
 * Japanese:
 * Latin: cōs
 * Maltese: sinniena
 * Ottoman Turkish: بلگو
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:, afiadeira
 * Russian:, точильный ка́мень,
 * Spanish:, , aguzadera, amoladera,
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tamil:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian:, осла́


 * Bulgarian: хонинг машина
 * Czech:
 * Finnish: hoonaustyökalu, laahintatyökalu
 * Russian:

Verb

 * 1)  To sharpen with a hone; to whet.
 * 2)  To use a hone to produce a precision bore.
 * 3)  To refine or master (a skill).
 * 4) To make more acute, intense, or effective.
 * 1) To make more acute, intense, or effective.
 * 1) To make more acute, intense, or effective.

Derived terms

 * hone in (on)

Translations

 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Cherokee: ᎬᏟᎭ
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech: ostřit, naostřit,, nabrousit
 * Danish: skærpe
 * Dutch:, , scherp maken
 * Esperanto: akrigi
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian:
 * German:, feinschleifen, ziehschleifen
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:
 * Ingrian: hiuttaa, kirahuttaa
 * Italian:, , ,
 * Japanese:, 研ぎ澄ます
 * Khmer:
 * Maori: oroi, whakaratarata
 * Middle English: whetten
 * Mongolian:
 * Norwegian: hone
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian:, ,
 * Slovak: naostriť, vybrúsiť, nabrúsiť
 * Spanish:, ,
 * Swedish:, ,
 * Thai:
 * Vietnamese:, dũa
 * Yiddish: שלײַפֿן


 * Danish: kalibrere
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:, laahia
 * Russian:


 * Catalan:
 * Czech:, vybrousit
 * Danish: finslibe
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:
 * French:, ,
 * German: ausfeilen, ausschleifen
 * Italian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian:
 * Slovak: vycibriť, cizelovať, zdokonaliť
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: ,


 * Bulgarian:
 * Danish: forfine
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * Portuguese:

Etymology 2
Cognate with 🇨🇬. Distantly related to.

Noun

 * 1) A kind of swelling in the cheek.

Etymology 3
, which could be a cross of and.

Verb

 * 1)  To grumble.
 * 2) * c. 1515–1516, published 1568,, Againſt venemous tongues enpoyſoned with ſclaunder and falſe detractions &c.:
 * Such tunges ſhuld be torne out by the harde rootes, Hoyning like hogges that groynis and wrotes.
 * 1)  To pine, lament, or long.

Interjection

 * 1) * 1836,, Witchcraft, Act 4, page 141
 * "en"
 * "en"

- Oh, hone! oh, hone! miserable wretch that I am! Do ye mak confession for me, Sir, and I'll say 't after you, as weel as I dow. Oh, hone! oh, hone!

Etymology
From, , from , , from , from. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1)  honey

Etymology 1
From, from , from. The final vowel is generalised from the Old English inflected forms.

Noun

 * 1) hone

Verb

 * 1)  polish,