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homing

[ hoh-ming ]

adjective

  1. capable of returning home, usually over a great distance:

    We saw the homing birds at dusk.

  2. guiding or directing homeward or to a destination, especially by mechanical means:

    the homing instinct; a homing beacon.



homing

/ ˈhəʊmɪŋ /

noun

  1. zoology relating to the ability to return home after travelling great distances

    homing instinct

  2. (of an aircraft, a missile, etc) capable of guiding itself onto a target or to a specified point


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Word History and Origins

Origin of homing1

First recorded in 1860–65; home + -ing 2

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Example Sentences

It’s akin to a spaceship with awful homing machinery that crashes into other planets and causes an unexpected wave of disaster.

Once absorbed, the cells readily translated mRNA into proteins—dotting the outside of T cells—that acted as homing beacons to find and destroy heart cells responsible for scarring.

The game does a consistent job of homing in on small moments and recalling earlier details from the franchise and expanding upon them, adding a sense of heft and solidity to this fictional world.

Oh, and you can also play as the dodgeball, just hold down a button to “become the ball” and your teammate can toss you into an enemy like you’re a homing missile.

Then the researchers will make sure the potential spider repellent is not toxic or a homing beacon for ants.

In fact, Lew has a well-deserved reputation for homing in on the values that lurk behind the numbers.

Over the years, she has facilitated the transporting, homing, and re-homing of more than 250 dogs.

Like a homing device, it zipped over the net, into the corner of the court, and past the helpless Dabul to win the point.

At last he was forced to use the homing beam, and it guided him back across the deserted metropolis to the field.

And so to the unpeopled rooms of the little old Vermont farmhouse Peter's gentle thoughts ever swarmed, like homing bees.

It was a green and amber evening, with the shadows already deepening over Coombe Woods and the calling of homing rooks in the air.

Evening, with the sheep homing to the bedding-ground, brought reflections of a different hue.

If ever a man had any "homing instinct" it would surely show itself on such an occasion as this.

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