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home 1. the environment or habitat of a person or animal 2. a. a building or organization set up to care for orphans, the aged, etc. b. an informal name for a mental home 3. Sport one's own ground 4. a. the objective towards which a player strives in certain sports b. an area where a player is safe from attack 5. Lacrosse a. one of two positions of play nearest the opponents' goal b. a player assigned to such a position 6. Baseball another name for home plate 7. Sport relating to one's own ground Home Baron. See (Baron) Home of the Hirsel home [hōm] (computer science) The location at the upper left-hand corner of an electronic display. (electricity) To return to the starting position, as in a stepping relay or turning motor. (navigation) To navigate toward a point by maintaining constant some navigational parameter other than altitude. (ordnance) To travel to a target by guidance of heat radiation, radar echoes, radio waves, sound waves, laser beams, or other phenomena reflected from or originating in the target, as in homing missiles and homing torpedoes. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Most of UCLA's defensive drills are geared toward pursuing the football and hammering home the fundamentals, like proper pre-snap technique and making the correct reads. That's the position they started hammering home once a bill to increase the fees was introduced, and their rationale found supporters in both the state Senate and General Assembly. Concluded Teepen, "Gingrich's political tent is very much open for business again, and he's hammering home the ideological wedges that have always been his tent stakes. |
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