home
VERB:
1. to go or return home.
2. to have a home where specified; reside.
3. to bring or send home.
4. to provide with a home.
5. to direct, especially under control of an automatic aiming device, toward an airport, target, etc.
6. to go or return to one's place of residence or origin:
to go or return home; let us home.
7. to move to or toward an objective by following a signal or landmark —usually used with on or in:
missiles homing in on a target; mariners … sought the dark spires of Oakland's redwoods to home on. —J. W. Noble.
8. to proceed or direct attention toward an objective:
science is homing in on the mysterious human process. —Sam Glucksberg.
9. to send to or provide with a home:
hidden pools and much wider creeks each of which homed its cranes. —I. L. Idriess.
Origin:
before 900; Middle English hom, Old English hām (noun and adv.); cognate with Dutch heim, Old Norse heimr, Danish hjem, Swedish hem, German Heim home, Gothic haims village; akin to haunt. Dictionary 2: Old English hām; related to Old Norse heimr, Gothic haims, Old High German heim, Dutch heem, Greek kōmi village. —Dictionary.com. //
First Known Use: Noun: before the 12th century. Adverb: before the 12th century. Adjective: 13th century. Verb: 1802. History and Etymology: Noun, Adverb, Adjective, and Verb: Middle English hom, from Old English hām village, home; akin to Old High German heim home, Lithuanian šeima family, servants, Sanskrit kṣema habitable, kṣeti he dwells, Greek ktizein to inhabit. —Merriam-Webster.
Sources: 1, 2.
1. to go or return home.
2. to have a home where specified; reside.
3. to bring or send home.
4. to provide with a home.
5. to direct, especially under control of an automatic aiming device, toward an airport, target, etc.
6. to go or return to one's place of residence or origin:
to go or return home; let us home.
7. to move to or toward an objective by following a signal or landmark —usually used with on or in:
missiles homing in on a target; mariners … sought the dark spires of Oakland's redwoods to home on. —J. W. Noble.
8. to proceed or direct attention toward an objective:
science is homing in on the mysterious human process. —Sam Glucksberg.
9. to send to or provide with a home:
hidden pools and much wider creeks each of which homed its cranes. —I. L. Idriess.
Origin:
before 900; Middle English hom, Old English hām (noun and adv.); cognate with Dutch heim, Old Norse heimr, Danish hjem, Swedish hem, German Heim home, Gothic haims village; akin to haunt. Dictionary 2: Old English hām; related to Old Norse heimr, Gothic haims, Old High German heim, Dutch heem, Greek kōmi village. —Dictionary.com. //
First Known Use: Noun: before the 12th century. Adverb: before the 12th century. Adjective: 13th century. Verb: 1802. History and Etymology: Noun, Adverb, Adjective, and Verb: Middle English hom, from Old English hām village, home; akin to Old High German heim home, Lithuanian šeima family, servants, Sanskrit kṣema habitable, kṣeti he dwells, Greek ktizein to inhabit. —Merriam-Webster.
Sources: 1, 2.