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Meanings of homing in English

Russian
хоуминг
Spanish
instinto de regresar a casa

Instinctual activity such as the ability of certain animals to return to a given place.

        хоуминг

        Homing.

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                Examples for "homing behavior"
                Examples for "homing behavior"
                1
                Chronic naloxone did not block or retard social development; in fact naloxone-treated animals exhibited more rapid acquisition of homing behavior than controls.
                Pubmed
                2
                These data suggest that interaction of SCF with the c-kit receptor affects the homing behavior of hematopoietic progenitor cells in the adult animal.
                Pubmed
                Usage of homing in English
                1
                A sense of homing told them they must return to Clark County.
                The devil's touch
                2
                Security and medical teams would dispatch immediately, homing in on the signal.
                Ascension
                3
                This minimizes recovery time, which is important for homing in on power-endurance.
                Climbing Magazine
                4
                He was homing in on the truth and he could feel it.
                Act of treason
                5
                The interaction occurs via specialized lymphocyte surface molecules known as homing receptors.
                Pubmed
                6
                The Securities and Exchange Commission has been homing in on overseas earnings.
                Reuters
                7
                That infernal lawyer kept twisting his words and homing in on details.
                The girl who kicked the hornet's nest
                8
                The Mincemeat letters were now, finally, homing in on the ultimate target.
                Operation mincemeat: how a dead man and a bizarre plan fooled th...
                9
                The charge looked strangely surreal, like homing birds released from their cages.
                The skein of lament
                10
                But the feeling inside me was like that of a homing pigeon.
                A colossal failure of common sense: the inside story of the coll...
                11
                For a moment, her heart fluttered towards him like a homing bird.
                Eleanor
                12
                Because bone marrow, like a homing pigeon, somehow knows where to go.
                Fireflies
                13
                He was their one big threat, and I was their homing beacon.
                Layover in dubai
                14
                And Ginger, beaming happily, swooped on Sally's table like a homing pigeon.
                The Adventures of Sally
                15
                Perhaps it's a homing instinct, like the pigeon's, and perhaps it's sentiment.
                Carmen's Messenger
                16
                She'd come back to him like some sort of goddamn homing pigeon.
                Shadowlight
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                Translations for homing
                Homing through the time
                Homing across language varieties
                United States of America
                Common
                United Kingdom
                Common