HOME IN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does home in mean? 

• HOME IN (verb)
  The verb HOME IN has 1 sense:

1. direct onto a point or target, especially by automatic navigational aids

  Familiarity information: HOME IN used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HOME IN (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Direct onto a point or target, especially by automatic navigational aids

Classified under:

Verbs of fighting, athletic activities

Synonyms:

home in; range in; zero in

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 

I promised her on my word that I would send him home in a cab within two hours if he were indeed at the address which she had given me.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Mr. Woodley went home in a cart.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"I should think you ought to be at home yourself," said he, "if you have a home in this neighbourhood: where do you come from?"

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

His friend had left him that morning for London, but was to return home in ten days time.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

To-morrow will, I hope, mend all this; she will be herself at home in Exeter.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

They shopped, walked, rode, and called all day, went to theaters and operas or frolicked at home in the evening, for Annie had many friends and knew how to entertain them.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

“You must be more careful, nephew,” said my uncle, as we rattled home in his model vis-à-vis.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Shall I send you home in my trap?” asked old Cunningham.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Glumdalclitch wrapped it up in her handkerchief, and carried it home in her pocket, to keep among other trinkets, of which the girl was very fond, as children at her age usually are.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

We scarcely got home in time.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)