hone

名词 n. 动词 v. 感叹词 intj.
中文释义
英 /həʊn/    美 /hoʊn/

英文释义

名词 n.
  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 kind of swelling in the cheek.
  3. A machine tool used in the manufacture of precision bores.
动词 v.
  1. To sharpen with a hone; to whet. transitive
  2. To grumble. Southern-US,UK,US,dialectal,intransitive
    — Such tunges ſhuld be torne out by the harde rootes,
  3. To use a hone to produce a precision bore. transitive
  4. To pine, lament, or long. Southern-US,UK,US,dialectal
    — He lies pitying himself, honing and moaning to himself
  5. To refine (a skill especially) by learning. transitive
    — He also honed the procedure known as cut and fill - whereby the spoil from railway cuttings was used to build up embankments.
  6. To make more acute, intense, or effective.
感叹词 intj.
  1. Synonym of alas Used to express sorrow, or grief
    — 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!

词形变化

hones plural hones present,singular,third-person honing participle,present honed participle,past honed past hones plural hones present,singular,third-person honing participle,present honed participle,past honed past

词汇关系

衍生词
hone slate hone stone honestone Turkey hone hone in honer rehone
相关词
grit sandpaper steel strop swarf

词源

词源 1
From Middle English hon (“whetstone”), from Old English hān, from Proto-Germanic *hainō (compare Dutch heen, Norwegian hein), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱeh₃i- (“to sharpen”) (compare Ancient Greek κῶνος (kônos, “cone”), Persian سان (sân, “whetstone”)).
词源 2
Cognate with Icelandic hnúður. Distantly related to knot.
词源 3
French hogner (“to grumble”), which could be a cross of honnir (“to disgrace, shame”) and grogner (“to grunt”).
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