HOMING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does homing mean? 

• HOMING (adjective)
  The adjective HOMING has 1 sense:

1. orienting or directing homeward or to a destination

  Familiarity information: HOMING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HOMING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Orienting or directing homeward or to a destination

Context example:

a homing beacon

Similar:

orientating; orienting (positioning with respect to a reference system or determining your bearings physically or intellectually)

 Context examples 

This gene may be involved in macrophage homing, selectin recognition and pathogen uptake.

(CD68 Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

If its homing instinct led it upon the right line, there can be no doubt that somewhere out in the wastes of the Atlantic the last European pterodactyl found its end.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This allele, which encodes macrosialin protein, may play a role in the regulation of macrophage homing and rolling and the mediation of pathogen binding and internalization.

(CD68 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

Scientists are homing in on what a healthy human microbiome looks like, mapping the normal bacteria that live in and on a human body.

(How do you cultivate a healthy plant microbiome?, National Science Foundation)

This allele, which encodes small inducible cytokine A21 protein, plays a role in mediating the homing of lymphocytes to secondary lymphoid organs.

(CCL21 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

This complex plays a role in cell-cell adhesion, cell-matrix adhesion, inflammation, hematopoietic cell homing and immune system function.

(Integrin Alpha4/Beta1, NCI Thesaurus)

This allele, which encodes neural cell adhesion molecule 2 protein, may play a role in the regulation of both fasciculation and olfactory neuron axon homing.

(NCAM2 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

B cell and T cell lymphocytes interact with a variety of cells as part of their immune function, circulating and homing in on specific stimuli in tissues like inflammatory signals.

(Adhesion Molecules on Lymphocyte Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

The gene-editing technology known as CRISPR/Cas9 is six times more effective than other techniques at homing in on target genes and inserting or deleting specific sequences.

(A new role for zebrafish: larger scale gene function studies, NIH)

Back from sea Martin Eden came, homing for California with a lover's desire.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)