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Homing   /hˈoʊmɪŋ/   Listen
Homing

adjective
1.
Orienting or directing homeward or to a destination.  "A homing beacon"



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"Homing" Quotes from Famous Books



... was loosed on the fourth and lost. This time he gained southern Oregon before he was caught and returned. Always, as soon as he received his liberty, he fled away, and always he fled north. He was possessed of an obsession that drove him north. The homing instinct, Irvine called it, after he had expended the selling price of a sonnet in getting the animal ...
— Love of Life - and Other Stories • Jack London
... reasoned that the best way to forget the present was in the revival of memories. Or I may have been driven by a mere homing instinct. Anyhow, it was in the direction of my old College that I went. Midnight was tolling as I floated in through the shut grim gate at which I had so often stood knocking ...
— Zuleika Dobson - or, An Oxford Love Story • Max Beerbohm
... stern of the launch. In it, lazily wielding the polished paddle, sat young Mrs. Haltren, bareheaded, barearmed, singing as sweetly as the little cardinal, who paused in sheer surprise at the loveliness of song and singer. Like a homing pigeon the canoe circled to take its bearings once, then ...
— A Young Man in a Hurry - and Other Short Stories • Robert W. Chambers


Words linked to "Homing" :   homing device, orienting, orientating


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