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homing

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The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Homing \Hom"ing\ (h[=o]m"[i^]ng), p. a. Home-returning; -- used specifically of carrier pigeons. Homing pigeon , any pigeon trained to return home from a distance. Also called carrier pigeon . Most are bred from the domestic pigeon Columba livia . Homing ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Homing is the phenomenon whereby cells migrate to the organ of their origin. By homing, transplanted hematopoietic cells are able to travel to and engraft or establish residence in the bone marrow . Various chemokines and receptors are involved in the homing ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES homing device homing pigeon EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ If nothing else, the Hart provided a forceful illustration of the homing instinct. ▪ In there they all carried a small radio homing device, to find each other blindly ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. orienting or directing homeward or to a destination; "the homing instinct"; "a homing beacon"

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"action of going home," 1765, in reference to pigeons, from present participle of home (v.). Homing pigeon attested by 1868.

Usage examples of homing.

Moving through the air high spars of a threemaster, her sails brailed up on the crosstrees, homing, upstream, silently moving, a silent ship.

This device had been used only intermittently in recent months because it had been feared that German night fighters were homing in to the Mandrel impulses.

The cyan bolt blew a basin the size of a dinner plate into the rock face on which the Molt was homing.

Cowboy turns his own radar off to discourage homing missiles and navigates on his visual sensors alone, his mind making lightning decisions, neurotransmitters clattering against his headswitches like hail, the interface encompassing the whole flashing universe, the panzer and its systems, the corn thundering under the armored skirts, the blithering chaff, the two hostile privateers burning out of the night.

This will entail preparing adequate runways, homing devices, and possibly fog-clearing gear on the aerodromes, and de-icing and blind-landing equipment, etc.

Shepardsville, following the homing probe subroutine that had pinpointed their culprit.

The use of animals--from homing pigeons to horses--in war was nothing new: thousands of years ago, Greek and Roman soldiers had sent dogs with spiked collars into battle.

A gate between two dovecotes, where homing pigeons made a noisy cloud, led him across a bridge to the Abbey gardens.

As Feth Allmer had predictedand Laj Drai had confirmed, after checking with his tablesthe signals from the planted homing unit were coming from the dark side of the planet.

Midsummer-manifold, each one Voluminous, a labyrinth of life, They keep their greenest musings, and the dim dreams That haunt their leafier privacies, Dissembled, baffling the random gapeseed still With blank full-faces, or the innocent guile Of laughter flickering back from shine to shade, And disappearances of homing birds, And frolicsome freaks Of little boughs that frisk with little boughs.

Killian and Wells had the distinct impression he was shifting mental gears as well, homing in more directly to the issue at hand.

Florida dove and fired first noisemakers to mask his ship, then simulated decoys to attract homing torpedos away from her.

Eventually he found himself homing once again on the rastafarian barbershop.

Hu Shih reluctantly left them, to compose the formal message he must speed to Earth by homing capsule, he knew that they would be able to salvage something from this disaster.

Minutes after she had disappeared the homing SBDs could see small splashes as buoyant pieces broke away from the settling hulk, shot through the surface and fell back.