hail
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[edit] English
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[edit] Etymology 1
From Old English hæġl.
[edit] Noun
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hail (uncountable)
- Balls or pieces of ice falling as precipitation from a thunderstorm.
- (1977) MANOBS Manual of Surface Weather Observations, Seventh, Amendment 15, Canada: Meteorological Service of Canada.
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balls of ice
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to hail (third-person singular simple present hails, present participle hailing, simple past and past participle hailed)
- (impersonal) Said of the weather when hail is falling.
- They say it's going to hail tomorrow.
- (transitive) To send or release hail
- The cloud would hail down furiously within a few minutes.
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said when hail is falling
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[edit] Etymology 2
From hail, a variant of hale (“‘health, safety’”).
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to hail (third-person singular simple present hails, present participle hailing, simple past and past participle hailed)
- (transitive) To greet.
- Hail Linzen
- (transitive) To praise enthusiastically.
- He was hailed as a hero.
- (transitive) To call out to loudly in order to gain the attention of.
- Hail a taxi
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to greet
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to praise enthusiastically
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to call out loudly in order to gain the attention of
to be a native of
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[edit] Etymology 3
From Old Norse heill. Compare whole, hale.
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hail (comparative more hail, superlative most hail)
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