Hone vs. Perfect — What's the Difference?

A fine-grained whetstone for giving a keen edge to a cutting tool.

Lacking nothing essential to the whole; complete of its nature or kind.

A tool with a rotating abrasive tip for enlarging holes to precise dimensions.

Being without defect or blemish

To sharpen on a fine-grained whetstone.

Thoroughly skilled or talented in a certain field or area; proficient.

To perfect or make more intense or effective

Completely suited for a particular purpose or situation

To whine or moan.

Completely corresponding to a description, standard, or type

To hanker; yearn.

Accurately reproducing an original

A sharpening stone composed of extra-fine grit used for removing the burr or curl from the blade of a razor or some other edge tool.

Complete; thorough; utter

A machine tool used in the manufacture of precision bores.

Pure; undiluted; unmixed

A kind of swelling in the cheek.

Excellent and delightful in all respects

To sharpen with a hone; to whet.

(Botany) Having both stamens and pistils in the same flower; monoclinous.

To use a hone to produce a precision bore.

Capable of sexual reproduction. Used of fungi.

To refine or master (a skill).

(Grammar) Of, relating to, or constituting a verb form expressing action completed prior to a fixed point of reference in time.

To make more acute, intense, or effective.

(Music) Designating the three basic intervals of the octave, fourth, and fifth.

To grumble.

(Grammar) The aspect of a verb that expresses action completed prior to a fixed point of reference in time.

To pine, lament, or long.

A verb or verb form having this aspect.

To grumble; pine; lament; long.

To bring to perfection or completion

To sharpen on, or with, a hone; to rub on a hone in order to sharpen; as, to hone a razor.

Fitting its definition precisely.

To render more precise or more effective; as, to hone one's skills.

Having all of its parts in harmony with a common purpose.

A kind of swelling in the cheek.

Without fault or mistake; thoroughly skilled or talented.

A stone of a fine grit, or a slab, as of metal, covered with an abrading substance or powder, used for sharpening cutting instruments, and especially for setting razors; an oilstone.

Excellent and delightful in all respects.

A whetstone made of fine gritstone; used for sharpening razors

(mathematics) Of a number: equal to the sum of its proper divisors.

Sharpen with a hone;

Representing a completed action.

Make perfect or complete;

(biology) Sexually mature and fully differentiated.

(botany) Of flowers, having both male parts (stamens) and female parts (carpels).

(analysis) Of a set: equal to its set of limit points, i.e. set A is perfect if A=A.

(music) Describing an interval or any compound interval of a unison, octave, or fourths and fifths that are not tritones.

(of a cocktail) Made with equal parts of sweet and dry vermouth.

(obsolete) Well informed; certain; sure.

(obsolete) Innocent, guiltless.

(grammar) The perfect tense, or a form in that tense.

(video games) A perfect score; the achievement of finishing a stage or task with no mistakes.

A leader of the Cathar movement.

(transitive) To make perfect; to improve or hone.

(legal) To take an action, usually the filing of a document in the correct venue, that secures a legal right.

Brought to consummation or completeness; completed; not defective nor redundant; having all the properties or qualities requisite to its nature and kind; without flaw, fault, or blemish; without error; mature; whole; pure; sound; right; correct.

Well informed; certain; sure.

Hermaphrodite; having both stamens and pistils; - said of flower.

The perfect tense, or a form in that tense.

To make perfect; to finish or complete, so as to leave nothing wanting; to give to anything all that is requisite to its nature and kind.

A tense of verbs used in describing action that has been completed (sometimes regarded as perfective aspect)

Make perfect or complete;

Being complete of its kind and without defect or blemish;

Without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers;

Precisely accurate or exact;