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home (HOHM) (noun)
A dwelling place together with the family or social unit that occupies it; a household: Hana made a good home for her husband and children.
home (HOHM) (verb)
To find and to move directly toward someone or something: The medical researcher is trying to home in on the cause of the disease.

Website designers and innovators often mock up multiple designs and test them quickly; then they repeat the process until they home in on the design that seems to be most popular.

hone (HOHn) (noun)
A stone, frequently of fine grain, for filing or whetting tools used for cutting: The red hone was perfect for sharpening the kitchen knives.
hone (HOHn) (verb)
To sharpen or to make intense and effective: Chad tried to hone his speaking skills by practicing every day.

As the scientists started to home in on a solution, they felt as if they had used a hone on their brains which were so tired. When they announced the solution, they cheered and then all of them went home to rest.

This entry is located in the following unit: Confusing Words Clarified: Group H; Homonyms, Homophones, Homographs, Synonyms, Polysemes, etc. + (page 4)