To "own up" to something is to admit or confess to it. When people do not pronounce leading Hs, 'own' can be heard as 'hone'.
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I think the expression is really "bone up" -- to study, learn, add information/skills, whereas to hone is to narrow in, zero in, get more precise -- I think. I think the two terms get confused.
Camps will hone your skills in horseback riding and surviving in the wilderness. You must first hone the knife if you will use it in the kitchen.
phonetically its pronounced "mack-L-hone" hone pronounced same as " to hone one's skills"
Raat Hone Ko Hai was created on 2004-05-10.
The meaning of "stuck up" is can't move in one place.
'Sahabhagi hone', 'konatihi goshta ati karane'
'Hone' means 'bone' in Japanese.
Hone Heke was a 19th-century Māori chief in New Zealand who famously cut down the British flagpole in protest of British rule, sparking the Flagstaff War. The name "Hone Heke" itself does not have a specific meaning in English.
regards hone
Hone Glendinning's birth name is Hone McMahon Glendining.
The word 'hone' can be either the noun or the verb form. There is also a gerund, honing. The noun 'hone' is the word for the whetstone or machine that is used to sharpen blades.
Brian Hone was born in 1907.
Brian Hone died in 1978.
Margaret Hone died in 1969.
Margaret Hone was born in 1892.
Evie Hone was born in 1894.
Evie Hone died in 1955.
Hone Taiapa was born in 1911.