Dictionary

hone in en · VERB

Pronunciation

• /həʊn ɪn/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• /hoʊn ɪn/ (General-American)

Etymology

By confusion between hone and home.

Meanings

1. (alt-of, alternative, proscribed) Alternative form of home in.
   alt of home in
   • 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. 2021 December 29, Stephen Roberts, “Stories and facts behind railway facts: Aylesbury (2009)”, in RAIL, number 947, page 61:
   • 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: […] 2021 July 15, “Sometimes solecisms can reveal linguistic ingenuity”, in The Economist, →ISSN, archived from the original on 21 Jul 2021:
   • More than half of those are completely ignored by de Róiste. He hones in on only 400 of those, scattered around the country. 2016 April 18, Harry McGee, “All you need to know about tight race for those Seanad seats”, in The Irish Times, archived from the original on 02 Feb 2017:

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