Hone vs Lone - What's the difference?
hone | lone |
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.
A machine tool used in the manufacture of precision bores.
To sharpen with a hone .
To use a hone to produce a precision bore.
To refine or master (a skill).
To make more acute, intense, or effective.
To pine; to lament; to long.
Solitary; having no companion.
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*(William Shenstone) (1714–1763)
*:When I have on those pathless wilds appeared, / And the lone wanderer with my presence cheered.
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*:The Bat—they called him the Bat.. He'd never been in stir, the bulls had never mugged him, he didn't run with a mob, he played a lone hand, and fenced his stuff so that even the fence couldn't swear he knew his face.
Isolated or lonely; lacking companionship.
Sole; being the only one of a type.
Situated by itself or by oneself, with no neighbours.
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*(Lord Byron) (1788-1824)
*:By a lone well a lonelier column rears.
(lb) Unfrequented by human beings; solitary.
*(Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
*:Thus vanish sceptres, coronets, and balls, / And leave you on lone woods, or empty walls.
(lb) Single; unmarried, or in widowhood.
*Collection of Records (1642)
*:Queen Elizabeth being a lone woman.
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:A hundred mark is a long one for a poor lone woman to bear.
As a noun hone
is 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 or hone can be a kind of swelling in the cheek.As a verb hone
is to sharpen with a hone .As a proper noun lone is
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) ).Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* hone slate * hone stoneVerb
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