What's the difference between hone and honk?

Hone


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To pine; to lament; to long.
  • (n.) A kind of swelling in the cheek.
  • (n.) A stone of a fine grit, or a slab, as of metal, covered with an abrading substance or powder, used for sharpening cutting instruments, and especially for setting razors; an oilstone.
  • (v. t.) To sharpen on, or with, a hone; to rub on a hone in order to sharpen; as, to hone a razor.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) And it will continue to refine and hone the operation: recruiting more volunteers, collecting more data, refining the methods of communication, using social media more than traditional media.
  • (2) Interview with Donald Hutera In other words "Maliphant's choreography slips under our guard, arouses our curiosity and hones our gaze, without us realising the force of its aim."
  • (3) However, the wise surgeon will continue to hone his surgical skills because the results of definitive, sure, and deliberate operative treatment of biliary tract stone disease remains the standard by which newer methods must be gauged.
  • (4) Drilling and polluting is what Shell does, and its corporate culture – honed in blackspots such as Nigeria and the Alberta tar sands – is still based on the old 19th-century explore-exploit-risk-reward capitalist business model that owes nothing to anything beyond the company.
  • (5) His links with Bach have been the subject of much speculation among the German media, which has also honed in on Bach’s trade links to the middle east in his business life and his past as an executive for Adidas and Siemens.
  • (6) David Hone, climate change adviser for oil company Shell, said policy makers needed to focus on delivering a clear carbon price, rather than setting targets for renewable energy.
  • (7) The music and the image had been honed down in the interim – the gear to the archetypal indie look and the music to the almost bubblegum sound which they ply today.
  • (8) These tactics, of low-visibility, close-quarters combat were honed while fighting the Russians.
  • (9) V&A museum project boosted by billionaire's donation Read more The studious reproduction of museum exhibits has long been a fundamental part of art education – a means of honing drawing skills and offering deeper ways of looking.
  • (10) He offers a simple, well-honed defence to convince both himself and his interrogators of his innocence: "I made it to protect the motherland.
  • (11) In Venezuela, for example, mannequins’ shape have changed in response to the exaggerated ideals of beauty promoted in a country where a plastic surgery-honed physique is the ideal.
  • (12) The latest revelation about the involvement of blacklisting on the Olympic site is contained in a letter sent to Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) chief executive Dennis Hone from Balfour Beatty construction chief executive Mike Peasland.
  • (13) Inside, athletes honed to physical perfection by years of hard work and drugs.
  • (14) 7.55am GMT Roux is honing in on Johnson’s notes from the night of Reeva Steenkamp’s death.
  • (15) Alongside the many other scientists, academics and educators on the advisory panel for Atmosphere, David Hone, Shell’s climate change adviser, has been consulted with regards to gallery content,” the spokesperson said.
  • (16) The HNE-1 cell line has been passaged more than 100 times and the uncloned HONE-1 cells more than 90 times.
  • (17) He caught sight of Marine Le Pen on a TV politics show in 2007, inveighing against the European Union in the pugnacious style she honed as a lawyer, warning the government to “stop taking the people for fools”.
  • (18) The key axis in this team is perhaps the Messi-Gago funnel, a relationship honed over shared international adolescence.
  • (19) Hollande's image as France's Monsieur Normal may have been honed through his contact with the Corrèziens, but it has become one of the foundation stones of his entire election campaign.
  • (20) They attribute the movement's interest in this issue to a desire to "improve its image, hone its legal strategy, and make new friends" among advocates for the disabled.

Honk


Definition:

  • (n.) The cry of a wild goose.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I've danced and I still want to dance," he said over the noise of drumming and honking cars.
  • (2) After Karadzic's arrest in 2008, the streets of Bosnian cities were lined with honking cars, but after that of Ratko Mladic last year, there was no such celebration.
  • (3) From his 19th-floor newsroom Eurípedes Alcântara enjoys a spectacular view over the "new Brazil"; helicopters flit through the afternoon sky, shiny new cars honk their way across town, tower blocks and luxury shopping centres sprout like turnips from the urban sprawl.
  • (4) In London, Trafalgar Square and Whitehall were jammed from the start of the planned "go slow" at 2pm, as thousands of black cabs gathered honking their horns, bringing total gridlock to the centre of the capital, while supporters waved banners and started occasionally chanting: "Boris, out!"
  • (5) He won’t look at you when you pull up beside him, honking about decorum and proper manners.
  • (6) Thomas Wiggins – the man urging cars to honk as they passed – dropped his face into his hands.
  • (7) His head pounds, “my chest gets heavy, stomach gets tight” and “I feel suffocated, anxious.” “I have difficulty breathing at the end of the day, my face is black with soot,” says Kumar, waiting for his next fare on a noisy corner in south Delhi, beside a road jammed with honking cars, trucks and buses.
  • (8) When one reaches glory is it hard to keep up,” said Arturo Vidal - who currently has ‘Campeón’ shaved into his hair, both an indisputable statement and a honking piece of hubris - said after the game.
  • (9) "More likely indoor fireworks under Balotelli's shirt," honks David Parkinson.
  • (10) Cars honk impatiently and refuse to give way to one other.
  • (11) There are more than 5m cars in Beijing, and they have transformed its once-generous thoroughfares into a noxious, honking mass.
  • (12) Honk if you think Washington is broken!” says a sign on her campaign bus.
  • (13) The mechanism of production of this honk is discussed.
  • (14) A systolic honk developed in a woman with idiopathic cardiomyopathy and congestive heart failure.
  • (15) Three children with loud systolic honks were studied noninvasively with phonocardiography and echocardiography.
  • (16) Qasr-el-Aini was almost a hellish experience, with cars honking the whole time.
  • (17) Parreira had no complaints about either of the big talking points – the flight of the ball and the honk of the vuvuzela – of a so far underwhelming first round of matches: "We love them both."
  • (18) (I will not bore the boob-honking lobby with the statistics on female employment, prevalence and seniority.)
  • (19) Moscow is generally noisy with the sounds of thousands of drivers honking horns as they wait for the passing of these motorcades, which often involve a dozen cars with blue sirens wailing.
  • (20) A third study with 137 male drivers and 63 female drivers examined the interactive effects of a rifle, an aggressively connotated bumper sticker, and individual subject characteristics (sex and an exploratory index of self-perceived status) on horn honking.