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{"id": "hone", "metadata": {"operation": "retrieve", "provider": "Oxford University Press", "schema": "RetrieveEntry"}, "results": [{"id": "hone", "language": "en-gb", "lexicalEntries": [{"entries": [{"etymologies": ["Middle English: from Old English h\u0101n \u2018stone\u2019, of Germanic origin; related to Old Norse hein"], "notes": [{"text": "See home", "type": "editorialNote"}], "pronunciations": [{"audioFile": "https://audio.oxforddictionaries.com/en/mp3/hone_gb_1.mp3", "dialects": ["British English"], "phoneticNotation": "IPA", "phoneticSpelling": "h\u0259\u028an"}], "senses": [{"definitions": ["sharpen (a blade)"], "examples": [{"text": "he was carefully honing the curved blade"}], "id": "m_en_gbus0476550.006", "notes": [{"text": "with object", "type": "grammaticalNote"}], "shortDefinitions": ["sharpen blade"], "synonyms": [{"language": "en", "text": "sharpen"}, {"language": "en", "text": "make sharper"}, {"language": "en", "text": "make sharp"}, {"language": "en", "text": "whet"}, {"language": "en", "text": "strop"}, {"language": "en", "text": "grind"}, {"language": "en", "text": "file"}, {"language": "en", "text": "put an edge on"}], "thesaurusLinks": [{"entry_id": "hone", "sense_id": "t_en_gb0007085.001"}]}, {"definitions": ["refine or perfect (something) over a period of time"], "examples": [{"text": "some of the best players in the world honed their skills playing street football"}], "id": "m_en_gbus0476550.013", "notes": [{"text": "with object", "type": "grammaticalNote"}], "shortDefinitions": ["refine or perfect"], "subsenses": [{"definitions": ["give greater strength or firmness to (the body or a part of the body)"], "examples": [{"text": "she has been working hard to hone her physique"}], "id": "m_en_gbus0476550.014", "shortDefinitions": ["give greater strength to body"]}]}, {"crossReferenceMarkers": ["another way of saying \"home in on\" (see home)"], "crossReferences": [{"id": "home", "text": "home", "type": "see also"}], "examples": [{"text": "the detectives honed in on the suspect"}, {"text": "I started to hone in on the problem"}], "id": "m_en_gbus0476550.016", "notes": [{"text": "no object", "type": "grammaticalNote"}, {"text": "\"hone in on\"", "type": "wordFormNote"}], "shortDefinitions": ["home in on"]}]}], "language": "en-gb", "lexicalCategory": {"id": "verb", "text": "Verb"}, "text": "hone"}, {"entries": [{"notes": [{"text": "See home", "type": "editorialNote"}], "pronunciations": [{"audioFile": "https://audio.oxforddictionaries.com/en/mp3/hone_gb_1.mp3", "dialects": ["British English"], "phoneticNotation": "IPA", "phoneticSpelling": "h\u0259\u028an"}], "senses": [{"definitions": ["a whetstone, especially one used to sharpen razors."], "id": "m_en_gbus0476550.018", "semanticClasses": [{"id": "implement", "text": "Implement"}], "shortDefinitions": ["whetstone"]}]}], "language": "en-gb", "lexicalCategory": {"id": "noun", "text": "Noun"}, "text": "hone"}], "type": "headword", "word": "hone"}], "word": "hone"}
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