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homing [ˈhəʊmıŋ] ADJ

1. homing:

homing
回家的 huíjiāde

carrier pigeon N, homing pigeon [ˈhəʊm­ıŋ ...]

homing pigeon N

homing pigeon → carrier pigeon

See also carrier pigeon

carrier pigeon N, homing pigeon [ˈhəʊm­ıŋ ...]

I . home [həʊm] N

II . home [həʊm] ADJ

III . home [həʊm] ADV

home [həʊm]

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At Home N

funeral home N, funeral parlour

home advantage N

home appliances N

home cinema N Brit

home confinement N, home detention

home detention N

home detention → home confinement

See also home confinement

home confinement N, home detention

home economics N

home electronics N

home help N mainly Brit

home invasion N

home leave N

home loan N

home-made ADJ

Home Office N Brit

Usage examples with homing

a homing pigeon
信鸽
a homing missile
(自动)寻的导弹

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

English
The prosperity that flowed from the gold rushes of the 1860s sifted through to a demand for reliable homing pigeons.
www.odt.co.nz
A homing pigeon was fitted with an aluminium breast harness to which a lightweight time-delayed miniature camera could be attached.
en.wikipedia.org
The brigade's pathfinders landed accurately and set up their homing beacons, but the main body of the brigade landed over a large area, some away.
en.wikipedia.org
Presented in 1982, the statue depicting a pigeon atop a globe honors the homing pigeons of the military.
en.wikipedia.org
It will carry a message to the intended recipient by flying to them much like a homing pigeon.
en.wikipedia.org
Wireless communications were still in their infancy, so the available methods were telephone, telegraph, semaphore, signal lamps, signal flares, homing pigeons and runners.
en.wikipedia.org
On the top floor is a room set up as a homing pigeon house, with a right angular hole to fly through and 32 niches as nesting holes.
en.wikipedia.org
Apart from the homing pigeon, man has the cybernetic instinct to follow through a direction -- but you've got to make use of it by getting a focus for oneself.
www.ghanaweb.com
The homing pigeon was one of the first ways lovers were able to communicate over long distances, using the birds to transmit small messages to one another.
thenextweb.com
Keeping his shirt collar unfastened and homing the slick image to his upper lip.
www.mirror.co.uk

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