Tom wanted to hone his skills as a photographer.
Source: tatoeba (1092510)
Hone
//hoʊn//
Synonyms for "hone" (31 found)
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Closest matches (7)
Strong matches (9)
Related words (15)
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1 entriesRelated terms
6 entriesderived
9 entrieshas context
4 entriesis a
1 entriesmanner of
1 entriesrelated to
25 entriesShowing 16 of 25 words.
Translations
142 translations across 37 languages.
Ancient Greek
2 entries- θηγάνη noun (sharpening stone)
- ἀκόνη noun (sharpening stone)
Azerbaijani
3 entries- bülöv noun (sharpening stone)
- bülöv daşı noun (sharpening stone)
- bülövləmək verb (to sharpen with a hone)
Bulgarian
4 entries- брус noun (sharpening stone)
- точило noun (sharpening stone)
- хонинг машина noun (machine tool)
- наточвам verb (to make more acute, intense or effective)
Catalan
3 entries- esmoladora noun (sharpening stone)
- esmolar verb (to sharpen with a hone)
- esmolar verb (to refine or master a skill)
Cherokee
1 entries- ᎬᏟᎭ verb (to sharpen with a hone)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 磨刀石 noun (sharpening stone)
- 磨 verb (to sharpen with a hone)
- 礪 /砺 verb (to sharpen with a hone)
Czech
4 entries- brousek noun (sharpening stone)
- brus noun (sharpening stone)
- bruska noun (machine tool)
- brousit verb (to sharpen with a hone)
Danish
4 entries- slibesten noun (sharpening stone)
- finslibe verb (to refine or master a skill)
- forfine verb (to make more acute, intense or effective)
- kalibrere verb (to produce a precision bore with a hone)
Dutch
4 entries- slijpsteen noun (sharpening stone)
- wetsteen noun (sharpening stone)
- aanzetten verb (to sharpen with a hone)
- kalibreren verb (to produce a precision bore with a hone)
Esperanto
2 entries- akrigilo noun (sharpening stone)
- akrigi verb (to sharpen with a hone)
Finnish
4 entries- hoonaustyökalu noun (machine tool)
- laahintatyökalu noun (machine tool)
- liippakivi noun (sharpening stone)
- hioa verb (to refine or master a skill)
French
4 entries- pierre à aiguiser noun (sharpening stone)
- affiner verb (to refine or master a skill)
- affuter verb (to refine or master a skill)
- aiguiser verb (to sharpen with a hone)
German
4 entries- Schleifstein noun (sharpening stone)
- Wetzstein noun (sharpening stone)
- ausfeilen verb (to refine or master a skill)
- ausschleifen verb (to refine or master a skill)
Hebrew
1 entries- לַחֲרוֹץ verb (to sharpen with a hone)
Hungarian
1 entries- fen verb (to sharpen with a hone)
Indonesian
1 entries- mengasah verb (to refine or master a skill)
Ingrian
2 entries- hiuttaa verb (to sharpen with a hone)
- kirahuttaa verb (to sharpen with a hone)
Italian
4 entries- cote noun (sharpening stone)
- mola noun (sharpening stone)
- affilare verb (to sharpen with a hone)
- affinare verb (to sharpen with a hone)
Japanese
3 entries- 砥石 noun (sharpening stone)
- 研ぎ澄ます verb (to sharpen with a hone)
- 研ぐ verb (to sharpen with a hone)
Khmer
1 entries- សង្កួត verb (to sharpen with a hone)
Latin
1 entries- cōs noun (sharpening stone)
Maltese
1 entries- sinniena noun (sharpening stone)
Middle English
1 entries- whetten verb (to sharpen with a hone)
Māori
2 entries- oroi verb (to sharpen with a hone)
- whakaratarata verb (to sharpen with a hone)
Norwegian
1 entries- hone verb (to sharpen with a hone)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- بلگو noun (sharpening stone)
Polish
2 entries- osełka noun (sharpening stone)
- doskonalić verb (to refine or master a skill)
Portuguese
4 entries- afiadeira noun (sharpening stone)
- mó noun (sharpening stone)
- afiar verb (to sharpen with a hone)
- amolar verb (to sharpen with a hone)
Russian
4 entries- брусо́к noun (sharpening stone)
- осело́к noun (sharpening stone)
- точильный ка́мень noun (sharpening stone)
- хон noun (machine tool)
Slovak
4 entries- cizelovať verb (to refine or master a skill)
- nabrúsiť verb (to sharpen with a hone)
- naostriť verb (to sharpen with a hone)
- vybrúsiť verb (to sharpen with a hone)
Spanish
4 entries- afiladera noun (sharpening stone)
- aguzadera noun (sharpening stone)
- amoladera noun (sharpening stone)
- asperón noun (sharpening stone)
Swedish
4 entries- bryne noun (sharpening stone)
- brynsten noun (sharpening stone)
- hen noun (sharpening stone)
- heningssten noun (machine tool)
Tamil
1 entries- சாணை noun (sharpening stone)
Turkish
2 entries- bileği noun (sharpening stone)
- bilemek verb (to sharpen with a hone)
Ukrainian
2 entries- брус noun (sharpening stone)
- осла́ noun (sharpening stone)
Vietnamese
2 entries- dũa verb (to sharpen with a hone)
- mài verb (to sharpen with a hone)
Yiddish
1 entries- שלײַפֿן verb (to sharpen with a hone)
Sample sentences
15 total sentences available.
To be a good translator, I think Tom needs to hone his skills a bit more.
Source: tatoeba (1096047)
Hone your skills.
Source: tatoeba (5758237)
Despite the challenges and an uncertain future, the student journalists continue to hone their craft, one story at a time.
Source: tatoeba (8452349)
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