Hone vs. Perfect

Honenoun

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.

Honenoun

A machine tool used in the manufacture of precision bores.

Honenoun

A kind of swelling in the cheek.

Honeverb

To sharpen with a hone; to whet.

Honeverb

To use a hone to produce a precision bore.

Honeverb

To refine or master (a skill).

Honeverb

To make more acute, intense, or effective.

Honeverb

To grumble.

Honeverb

To pine, lament, or long.

Honeverb

To grumble; pine; lament; long.

Honeverb

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

Honeverb

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

Honenoun

A kind of swelling in the cheek.

Honenoun

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.

Honenoun

a whetstone made of fine gritstone; used for sharpening razors

Honeverb

sharpen with a hone;

Honeverb

make perfect or complete;

Perfectadjective

Fitting its definition precisely.

Perfectadjective

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

Perfectadjective

Without fault or mistake; thoroughly skilled or talented.

Perfectadjective

Excellent and delightful in all respects.

Perfectadjective

Representing a completed action.

Perfectadjective

(biology) Sexually mature and fully differentiated.

Perfectadjective

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

Perfectadjective

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

Perfectadjective

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

Perfectadjective

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

Perfectadjective

(obsolete) Well informed; certain; sure.

Perfectnoun

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

Perfectnoun

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

Perfectverb

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

Perfectverb

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

Perfectadjective

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.

Perfectadjective

Well informed; certain; sure.

Perfectadjective

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

Perfectnoun

The perfect tense, or a form in that tense.

Perfectverb

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.

Perfectnoun

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

Perfectverb

make perfect or complete;

Perfectadjective

being complete of its kind and without defect or blemish;

Perfectadjective

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

Perfectadjective

precisely accurate or exact;