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verb (used with object)
1.
to cheer, salute, or greet; welcome.
2.
to acclaim; approve enthusiastically: The crowds hailed the conquerors. They hailed the recent advances in medicine.
3.
to call out to in order to stop, attract attention, ask aid, etc.: to hail a cab.
verb (used without object)
4.
to call out in order to greet, attract attention, etc.: The people on land hailed as we passed in the night.
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Hail from
is always a great word to know.
So is bezoar. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison. |
noun
5.
a shout or call to attract attention: They answered the hail of the marooned boaters.
6.
a salutation or greeting: a cheerful hail.
7.
the act of hailing.
interjection
Verb phrase8.
(used as a salutation, greeting, or acclamation.)
9.
Idiomhail from, to have as one's place of birth or residence: Nearly everyone here hails from the Midwest.
10.
within hail, within range of hearing; audible: The mother kept her children within hail of her voice.
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Word Origin & History
hail
"frozen rain," O.E. hægl, hagol, from W.Gmc. *haglaz (cf. O.H.G. hagal, O.N. hagl, Ger. hagel "hail"), probably from PIE *kaghlo- "pebble" (cf. Gk. kakhlex "round pebble").
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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American Heritage
Science Dictionary
hail  (hāl) Pronunciation Key
Precipitation in the form of rounded pellets of ice and hard snow that usually falls during thunderstorms. Hail forms when raindrops are blown up and down within a cloud, passing repeatedly through layers of warm and freezing air and collecting layers of ice until they are too heavy for the winds to keep them from falling. |
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Cultural Dictionary
hail definition
Pellets of ice that form when updrafts in thunderstorms carry raindrops to high altitudes, where the water freezes and then falls back to Earth. Hailstones as large as baseballs have been recorded. Hail can damage crops and property.
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Idioms & Phrases
hail from
Come from, originate from, as in He hails from Oklahoma. This term originally referred to the port from which a ship had sailed. [Mid-1800s]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
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