Honing

What do we mean by honing?

To sharpen with a hone; to whet.

To use a hone to produce a precision bore.

To refine or master (a skill).

To make more acute, intense, or effective.

To undress another person with your eyes Urban Dictionary

To improve or perfect, usually regarding a skill. Urban Dictionary

A hot or incredibly attractive person. Used primarily on Australian streets to alert friends of a sexy passerby. Urban Dictionary

Hone is the next name in the central pacific tropical cyclone naming list, the name has been used for several jokes due to the fact this name has been waiting to be used for nearly 1000 days Urban Dictionary

Of exceptional quality or beauty, or otherwise acute, intense, or effective. Used briefly in Southern California youth culture in the late 70's and early 80's, possibly among the skater community. Urban Dictionary

Special people; Used in any context Urban Dictionary

When a player on a video game gets owned hard. Either with a head shot or another type of ownage. Urban Dictionary

To derp as a game provider and not have the server capacity or smarts to counter DDoS. In return the servers are unplayable for days on end. Urban Dictionary

Abbreviation for honestly/honest Urban Dictionary

Capetonian (Derived from Cape Town, South Africa) slang for an item/person or place that smells horrible Urban Dictionary

Words that are spelled similarly to honing:
honing, hoping, hoeing, hoving, zoning, homing, horning, boning, coning, toning, honking, holing, hosing, hoying, phoning, hoing, hoking, honig, koning, doning, hooning, haning, woning.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word honing:
lapping, chops, workpiece, abrasive, grinding, skills, machining, craft, hone, talents, gunnery, tutelage, knives, conform, blade, bore, oils, stones, precision, skill, blades, tool, cylinder, machines, libya, cutting, trio, steel, norfolk, talent, songwriter, rod, guidance, gaining, technique, tactics, embarked, acting, wheels, fluid, abilities, desired, oil, vocal, performing, edge, tactical, capabilities, sound, singing, amsterdam, bombing, surface, acoustic, diamond, processes, creative, deployed, guitar, learning, drawing, fine, metal, remove, coaching, broadway, flat, jazz, techniques.

Words that rhyme with honing:
moaning, zoning, cloning, condoning, groaning, droning, boning, coning, toning, jawboning, stoning, bemoaning, postponing, loaning, phoning, chaperoning, rezoning, intoning, telephoning, koning, throning, boehning, froning, microphone hung, millstone hung, phone hung, stone hung, telephone hung.

Adjectives that are often used to describe honing:
final, fine, liquid, constant, careful, further, conventional, electrochemical, frequent, internal, external, rough, subsequent, little, light, careless, wet, stroke, worth, most, traditional, flat, economical, cylinder, initial, dry, gentle, excessive, considerable, hand, gradual, ultrasonic, proper, occasional.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective honing:
stone, process, tool, guide, operations, device, surface, machine.

Consonant match to honing:
henning, hanning, haning.

Words that sound like honing:
honing, homing, henning, haning, hanning, hooning, hone in, honan, woning, hanging, humming, hemming, hoeing, hamming, heming, hoing, hinging, hanin, hymning, hennin, home in, toning, moaning, zoning, boning, loaning, coning, doning, koning, wohnung, hanan, hannan, hannon, homan, heenan, hannam, hennen, heinen, hannen, hainan, hannum, henen, hinnom, henan, hohman, hennan, hohmann, homann, winning, wanting, whining, wining, waning, weaning, weening, wanning, wenning, wonning, happening, hunting, haunting, handing, hatching, hinting, hitching, hounding, hony, hmong, horning, heightening, hosing, hono, holing, hunan, hastening, high noon, haying, hunching, hawing, hoying, hutching, hennings, hang in, honi, hemin, heying, henninger, hying, hem in, homam, hingeing, herning, haemin, hoenig, homering, tanning, tuning, tonin, tunning, tinning.