Hone vs. Perfect

A sharpening stone composed of extra-fine grit used for removing the burr or curl from the blade of a razor or some other edge tool.

A machine tool used in the manufacture of precision bores.

A kind of swelling in the cheek.

To sharpen with a hone; to whet.

To use a hone to produce a precision bore.

To refine or master (a skill).

To make more acute, intense, or effective.

To grumble.

To pine, lament, or long.

To grumble; pine; lament; long.

To sharpen on, or with, a hone; to rub on a hone in order to sharpen; as, to hone a razor.

to render more precise or more effective; as, to hone one's skills.

A kind of swelling in the cheek.

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.

a whetstone made of fine gritstone; used for sharpening razors

sharpen with a hone;

Example: ‘hone a knife’;

make perfect or complete;

Example: ‘perfect your French in Paris!’;

Fitting its definition precisely.

Example: ‘a perfect circle’;

Having all of its parts in harmony with a common purpose.

Example: ‘That bucket with the hole in the bottom is a poor bucket, but it is perfect for watering plants.’;

Without fault or mistake; thoroughly skilled or talented.

Example: ‘Practice makes perfect.’;

Excellent and delightful in all respects.

Example: ‘a perfect day’;

Representing a completed action.

(biology) Sexually mature and fully differentiated.

(botany) Of flowers, having both male (stamens) and female (carpels) parts.

(analysis) Of a set, that it is equal to its set of limit points, i.e. set A is perfect if A=A'.

(music) Describing an interval or any compound interval of a unison, octave, or fourths and fifths that are not tritones.

(of a cocktail) Made with equal parts of sweet and dry vermouth.

Example: ‘a perfect Manhattan;’; ‘a perfect Rob Roy’;

(obsolete) Well informed; certain; sure.

(grammar) The perfect tense, or a form in that tense.

(video games) A perfect score; the achievement of finishing a stage or task with no mistakes.

(transitive) To make perfect; to improve or hone.

Example: ‘I am going to perfect this article.’; ‘You spend too much time trying to perfect your dancing.’;

(legal) To take an action, usually the filing of a document in the correct venue, that secures a legal right.

Example: ‘perfect an appeal; perfect an interest; perfect a judgment’;

Brought to consummation or completeness; completed; not defective nor redundant; having all the properties or qualities requisite to its nature and kind; without flaw, fault, or blemish; without error; mature; whole; pure; sound; right; correct.

Example: ‘My strength is made perfect in weakness.’; ‘Three glorious suns, each one a perfect sun.’; ‘I fear I am not in my perfect mind.’; ‘O most entire perfect sacrifice!’; ‘God made thee perfect, not immutable.’;

Well informed; certain; sure.

Example: ‘I am perfect that the Pannonains are now in arms.’;

Hermaphrodite; having both stamens and pistils; - said of flower.

The perfect tense, or a form in that tense.

To make perfect; to finish or complete, so as to leave nothing wanting; to give to anything all that is requisite to its nature and kind.

Example: ‘God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfect in us.’; ‘Inquire into the nature and properties of the things, . . . and thereby perfect our ideas of their distinct species.’;

a tense of verbs used in describing action that has been completed (sometimes regarded as perfective aspect)

make perfect or complete;

Example: ‘perfect your French in Paris!’;

being complete of its kind and without defect or blemish;

Example: ‘a perfect circle’; ‘a perfect reproduction’; ‘perfect happiness’; ‘perfect manners’; ‘a perfect specimen’; ‘a perfect day’;

without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers;

Example: ‘an arrant fool’; ‘a complete coward’; ‘a consummate fool’; ‘a double-dyed villain’; ‘gross negligence’; ‘a perfect idiot’; ‘pure folly’; ‘what a sodding mess’; ‘stark staring mad’; ‘a thoroughgoing villain’; ‘utter nonsense’;

precisely accurate or exact;

Example: ‘perfect timing’;