英和和英

発音

• (General American) IPA: /hoʊn/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /həʊn/
• 韻: -əʊn

語源 1

From 中期英語 hon (“whetstone”), from 古期英語 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”)).

名詞

hone (plural hones)

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.

派生語

• hone slate
• hone stone, honestone
• Turkey hone

動詞

hone (third-person singular simple present hones, present participle honing, simple past and past participle honed)

1. (transitive) To sharpen with a hone; to whet.
2. (transitive) To use a hone to produce a precision bore.
3. (transitive) To refine (a skill especially) by learning.
   • 2023 August 23, David E Norris, “Joseph Locke: a railway injustice...”, in RAIL, number 990, page 56:

     He also honed the procedure known as cut and fill - whereby the spoil from railway cuttings was used to build up embankments.

   • 2011, “Revenge”, CaptainSparklez (lyrics), Doc Exx (music), performed by TryHardNinja, parody of Usher's DJ Got Us Fallin' In Love:

     Huh? Training in your room under the torchlight / Hone that form to get you ready for the big fight

4. To make more acute, intense, or effective.

派生語

参考

• grit
• sandpaper
• steel
• strop
• swarf

語源 2

Cognate with Icelandic hnúður. Distantly related to knot.

名詞

hone (plural hones)

1. A kind of swelling in the cheek.

派生語

• honewort

語源 3

French hogner (“to grumble”), which could be a cross of honnir (“to disgrace, shame”) and grogner (“to grunt”).

動詞

hone (third-person singular simple present hones, present participle honing, simple past and past participle honed)

1. (UK, US, Southern US, dialect, intransitive) To grumble.
   • c. 1515–1516, published 1568, John Skelton, 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.

2. (UK, US, Southern US, dialect) To pine, lament, or long.
   • 1823, Elia [pseudonym; Charles Lamb], Elia. Essays which have Appeared under that Signature in The London Magazine, London: […] [Thomas Davison] for Taylor and Hessey, […], →OCLC:

     He lies pitying himself, honing and moaning to himself

語源 4

間投詞

hone

1. Synonym of alas Used to express sorrow, or grief
   • 1836, Joanna Baillie, Witchcraft, Act 4, page 141

     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!

別の表記

• hayn, hoone

発音

• IPA: /ˈhɔːn(ə)/

名詞

hone

1. hone (whetstone)

派生した語

• English: hone
  • → Scots: hone, whoon

参照

• “hōne, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

語源 2

名詞

hone

1. alternative form of hon