You’re listening to Lingo Phoenix’s word of the day for June 16.

Fudge Day

Today’s word is home, spelled h-o-m-e.

home /həʊm $ hoʊm/ ●○○ verb

home in on something phrasal verb

to direct your efforts or attention towards a particular fault or problem

Researchers are homing in on the cause of the disease.

The report homed in on the weaknesses in the management structure.

He homed in on the one weak link in the argument.

These two samples yielded only partial genomes, but the team was able to reconstruct enough to home in on changes in nucleoprotein, one of the proteins that make up the virus’s replication machinery.

— Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 24 May 2021

to aim exactly at an object or place and move directly to it

The missile was homing in on its target.

The missile homed in on the ship.

The bat can home in on insects using a kind of ‘radar’.

In Golden Horde’s case, if a bomb is streaking toward a radar installation and then the bomb’s infrared seeker detects a nuclear-capable ballistic missile launcher, the bomb will home in on the launcher instead.

— Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 15 Jan. 2021

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