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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Direct onto a point or target, especially by automatic navigational aids
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Verbs of fighting, athletic activities
Hypernyms (to "home in" is one way to...):
aim; direct; place; point; target (intend (something) to move towards a certain goal)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s PP
Context examples:
No, she said, he had come home in the afternoon but had gone up to the hall to dine and pass the evening with the squire.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
It is a joy to me to see you again, lady, and to know that you have reached home in safety, if this be indeed your home.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It was enough to set his heart in a glow, and to bring him home in the properest state for feeling the full value of the other joyful surprises at hand.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
He is a bulky, bearded, sunburned fellow, who looks as if he would be more at home in a farmers’ inn than in a fashionable hotel.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
This curious object likely formed in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter and has been flung billions of kilometres from its origin to its current home in the Kuiper Belt.
(Exiled Asteroid Discovered in Outer Reaches of Solar System, ESO)
As soon as he had fallen asleep, however, she drew the ring from his finger, and crept softly away, and wished herself and her son at home in their kingdom.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
“Good-bye, Davy. You are going for your own good. Good-bye, my child. You will come home in the holidays, and be a better boy.”
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
However, I shan't say anything against them to YOU; and to be sure they did send us home in their own chariot, which was more than I looked for.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
But my affair is widely different; I bring back my heroine to her home in solitude and disgrace; and no sweet elation of spirits can lead me into minuteness.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
These are normally found in and around the home in the form of open bottles, old tyres, uncovered water tanks and flowerpots.
(Thyme oil and corn starch prove deadly for mosquito larvae, SciDev.Net)
