1 to make something perfect or completely suitable for its purpose:
2 to direct something such as an ability to make it more effective:
3 to make something better or completely suitable for its purpose:
They are essentially ritualized grand narratives, cultivated and honed and written down over the years.
The definition of death has, as the author notes, been subsequently honed to fit the needs of medicine, especially those of the transplant community.
The test section and the immediate upstream pipe section were honed after assembly.
The program examples are not always well honed.
By the late twentieth century, legal realists and critical legal scholars honed such insights into a fullfledged critique of a narrow form of legal liberalism.
Long honed his proposal, persisted in his search for legislative opportunities, and finally secured its passage as part of a tax bill in 1975.
The formal structure had been well honed for carrying out a certain type of exploration, one that had singularity of purpose and dramatic resources to back up the plans.
Chafing under the recent wave of regulatory initiatives, many corporations and trade associations channeled funding into think tanks that allowed these messages to be honed and disseminated.
