Homing

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  • v. Present participle of home.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Home-returning; -- used specifically of carrier pigeons.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The act of going home.
  • Coming home; characterized by an instinctive tendency to return home on being released from restraint: applied to the lower animals, especially to birds, such as carrier-pigeons, that have the faculty of returning from great distances to the place where they were reared, whence their usefulness in conveying written messages.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. orienting or directing homeward or to a destination
    • Equivalent
    orienting    orientating   
    Form
    homing pigeon   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    home-returning   
    Verb Stem
    home   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Wyoming    combing    foaming    gloaming    roaming   
     
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