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homing

/hoh-ming/US // ˈhoʊ mɪŋ //UK // (ˈhəʊmɪŋ) //

归宿,归位,归属感,归属

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : capable of returning home, usually over a great distance: We saw the homing birds at dusk.
    • : guiding or directing homeward or to a destination, especially by mechanical means: the homing instinct; a homing beacon.

Examples

  • The game does a consistent job of homing in on small moments and recalling earlier details from the franchise and expanding upon them, adding a sense of heft and solidity to this fictional world.

  • Oh, and you can also play as the dodgeball, just hold down a button to “become the ball” and your teammate can toss you into an enemy like you’re a homing missile.

  • Then the researchers will make sure the potential spider repellent is not toxic or a homing beacon for ants.

  • I’ve set out the main categories and scenarios that most skiers fall into, which is a good rough guide for homing in on the right gear choices in the real world, but the categories below are muddier than I present them.

  • In fact, Lew has a well-deserved reputation for homing in on the values that lurk behind the numbers.

  • Over the years, she has facilitated the transporting, homing, and re-homing of more than 250 dogs.

  • Like a homing device, it zipped over the net, into the corner of the court, and past the helpless Dabul to win the point.

  • At last he was forced to use the homing beam, and it guided him back across the deserted metropolis to the field.

  • And so to the unpeopled rooms of the little old Vermont farmhouse Peter's gentle thoughts ever swarmed, like homing bees.

  • It was a green and amber evening, with the shadows already deepening over Coombe Woods and the calling of homing rooks in the air.

  • Evening, with the sheep homing to the bedding-ground, brought reflections of a different hue.

  • If ever a man had any "homing instinct" it would surely show itself on such an occasion as this.