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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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Hailing
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. 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 chattering or flighty, light-headed person. |
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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noun
1.
showery precipitation in the form of irregular pellets or balls of ice more than 1/5 in. (5 mm) in diameter, falling from a cumulonimbus cloud (distinguished from sleet).
2.
a shower or storm of such precipitation.
3.
a shower of anything: a hail of bullets.
verb (used without object)
4.
to pour down hail (often used impersonally with it as subject): It hailed this afternoon.
5.
to fall or shower as hail: Arrows hailed down on the troops as they advanced.
verb (used with object)
6.
to pour down on as or like hail: The plane hailed leaflets on the city.
Origin:
before 900; Middle English; Old English hægl, variant of hagol; cognate with German Hagel, Old Norse hagl
before 900; Middle English; Old English hægl, variant of hagol; cognate with German Hagel, Old Norse hagl
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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").
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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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