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Перевод: homing

[прилагательное]
возвращающийся домой; приводной; самонаводящийся;
[существительное]
возвращение домой; обратный путь; привод ; наведение
[существительное]

Тезаурус:

1. Flies taste with their feet, planaria (aquatic flatworms) unerringly follow scents in water, sharks monitor the electrical nervous activity of their prey, knife fish use electrical radar (three-dimensional echo location), electric eels hunt the knife fish by homing in on their radar bleeps, while migrating birds are sensitive to the earth's magnetic field and polarized light.
2. He would blend into Wimbledon until he was indistinguishable from the trees, the homing children, the lollipop ladies, or the gables on the red brick houses.
3. If nothing else, the Hart provided a forceful illustration of the homing instinct.
4. The problem with HMS Sheffield was that Exocet's homing radar was not on the computer's list of enemy equipment.
5. The carcasses were left to rot: vultures and buzzards patrolled the sky, homing in on tattered wings.
6. Truck after truck was set ablaze and each fire acted as a homing beacon for more enemy aircraft.
7. In three departments this is supplemented by "homing into" more detail if a topic looks interesting.
8. I met Jane Toler at a party, and, homing in on my angularity of form, she asked me to sit for her.
9. By homing in on a national hero, Clinton will be keeping one of his early election promises to pick the best people - regardless of their party affiliaton.
10. If we find that magnets attached to cats will upset their ability to find their way home, then we are beginning, very dimly, to understand the amazing homing abilities that the animals have evolved over a long period of time.
11. Later, habit was to help me to find Aunt Louise with the assurance of a homing pigeon; now, hesitant of asking the way (being unable to read on the faces of those I encountered whether they were patients or helpers), I had great difficulty in finding the right building; and then - up ill-lit stone staircases and along corridors - in finding the ward to which I had been directed.
12. The term homing pigeon gives foundation to the popular belief that these birds have a natural ability to find their way back to their loft no matter what the distance.
13. An example of a processing bias would be the use of a mental filter - characteristically homing in on the negative in a situation and leaving the positive out of account.