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hail — English noun · Kenne

noun#6,874 by frequency

hail

/heɪl/

Balls or pieces of ice falling as precipitation, often in connection with a thunderstorm; An occurrence of this type of precipitation; a hailstorm

plural: hails

Meanings

1
Balls or pieces of ice falling as precipitation, often in connection with a thunderstorm
- As a rule, hail falls in the summer.
  Tatoeba · RJH · CC BY 2.0 FR
- Have you seen the hail?
  Tatoeba · Miktsoanit · CC BY 2.0 FR
2
An occurrence of this type of precipitation; a hailstorm
3
A rapid, intense barrage by a large number of projectiles or other objectsrare

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Weather

verbnot in the study set

hail

/heɪl/

To have hailstones fall from the sky; To greet; give salutation to; salute

he/she/it: hails
past participle: hailed

Meanings

1
To have hailstones fall from the sky
- Have you ever seen it hail?
  Tatoeba · CK · CC BY 2.0 FR
- From where do you hail?
  Tatoeba · Eccles17 · CC BY 2.0 FR
2
To greet; give salutation to; salute
3
To call out loudly in order to gain the attention of
4
To send or release hailrare
5

To pour down in rapid successionrare

6

To name; to designate; to callrare

7

To call out loudly in order to gain the attention of.; To indicate, from a designated stop or otherwise, to the driver of a public transport vehicle that one wishes to board and travel on the vehicle, usually using hand signals such as wavingrare

8

To signal in order to initiate communication withrare

9

In the game of uppies and downies, to throw (the ball) repeatedly up and down at the goal location, in order to score a pointrare

10

to originate (from), be native (to) or be based (in)rare