Hall
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
The locomotives were named after English and Welsh country houses with 'Hall' in their titles.
Proper noun[edit]
Hall
- A British and Scandinavian topographic surname for someone who lived in or near a hall.
- A surname of German origin for someone associated with a salt mine.
- An Anglo-Norman surname.
Noun[edit]
Hall (plural Halls)
- (Britain, rail transport) Hall class, a class of steam locomotive used on the GWR.
Derived terms[edit]
Statistics[edit]
- According to the 2010 United States Census, Hall is the 45th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 407,076 individuals. Hall is most common among White (72.7%) and Black/African American (21.6%) individuals.
Cebuano[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Proper noun[edit]
Hall
- a surname
German[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle High German hal. Cognate with Middle Low German hal (“loud; echoing; clear”), Old High German hellan (“to sound; resound”), Old English hiellan (“to make a noise; sound; blast”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
Hall m (genitive Halls or Halles, plural Halle)
- echo, resonance, reverberation
- 1838, Heinrich Ernst Bindseil, Abhandlungen zur allgemeinen vergleichenden Sprachlehre, Hamburg, p. 26:
- Mehrere Halle können zugleich entstehen, da mehr als eine jener Schallwellen eine solche Hemmung erleiden kann.
- 1856, Rumburger Anzeiger. No. 48. 27. November 1856, p. 197:
- „Ei,“ dachte ich, „es befindet sich ein Nachtwandler wie ich selbst auf der Chaussee, und die Stille der Nacht führt den Hall seiner Schritte zu mir herüber.“ Indeß die Stärke und die Deutlichkeit dieses Halles standen offenbar in keinem Verhältnisse zu einer solchen Entfernung.
- 1968 Hans Schimank (translator), Otto von Guerickes neue (sogenannte) Magdeburger Versuche über den leeren Raum. Reprinted 1996 and 2013, Springer-Verlag, →ISBN, p. 102:
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Ebenso klar und deutlich, wie man den Hall der Klapper beim Anschlag des Klöppels vor dem Auspumpen hören konnte […]
- Just as clearly as it was possible to hear the echo of the rattle when the clapper struck before being pumped out […]
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- 2000, edited by Walter Busch and Ingo Breuer, Robert Musil: Die Amsel. Kritische Lektüren - Letture critiche. Materialien aus dem Nachlaß, Edition Sturzflüge, p. 147:
- In unserem Fall erscheint der Ton als Echo eines Halles, der schon einmal ergangen scheint.
- 2012, Alexander Jahn, Licht und Schatten, Auswüchse der Finsternis. epubli, →ISBN, p. 401:
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Dann erklang das seltsamste Geräusch, das Seramis je vernommen hatte. Ein ohrenbetäubender Donner, lauter als alles was sie je gehört hatte, doch der Hall blieb aus. Donner ohne Hall.
- Then came the sound of the most peculiar noise Seramis had ever perceived. Deafening thunder, louder than anything she had ever heard, but there was no echo. Thunder without an echo.
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- 2017, Jelle Behnert, Das Haus der schwarzen Schwäne, Aufbau Digital, →ISBN, no page number:
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Wenn alle Mädchen in den Nachtkammern der Fabrik lagen, ging die Tür zum Keller mit einem Hall zu.
- When all the girls were lying in the factory's night chambers, the door to the cellar closed with an echo.
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- 1838, Heinrich Ernst Bindseil, Abhandlungen zur allgemeinen vergleichenden Sprachlehre, Hamburg, p. 26:
Usage notes[edit]
- Only refers to an echo which is clipped or overlays with the original sound, as is commonly found in big rooms or caves. An echo which repeats the full sound after the original sound has ceased, as can be produced in mountains, is called Echo.
Declension[edit]
Declension of Hall
Derived terms[edit]
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Luxembourgish[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
Hall m (plural Hallen)
See also[edit]
Categories:
- English lemmas
- English proper nouns
- English surnames
- English surnames from Middle English
- English surnames from German
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- British English
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- Cebuano terms derived from English
- Cebuano lemmas
- Cebuano proper nouns
- Cebuano surnames
- Cebuano surnames from English
- German terms inherited from Middle High German
- German terms derived from Middle High German
- German 1-syllable words
- German terms with IPA pronunciation
- German lemmas
- German nouns
- German masculine nouns
- German terms with quotations
- Luxembourgish 1-syllable words
- Luxembourgish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Luxembourgish lemmas
- Luxembourgish nouns
- Luxembourgish masculine nouns