hails from
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.
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.
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interjection
Verb phrases 8.
(used as a salutation, greeting, or acclamation.)
9.
Idioms hail 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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hail1 (heɪl) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | small pellets of ice falling from cumulonimbus clouds when there are very strong rising air currents |
| 2. | a shower or storm of such pellets |
| 3. | words, ideas, etc, directed with force and in great quantity: a hail of abuse |
| 4. | a collection of objects, esp bullets, spears, etc, directed at someone with violent force |
| —vb (often with it | |
| 5. | (intr; |
| 6. | to fall or cause to fall as or like hail: to hail criticism; bad language hailed about him |
| [Old English hægl; related to Old Frisian heil, Old High German hagal hail, Greek kakhlēx pebble] | |
| hail2 (heɪl) | |
| —vb (foll by from) | |
| 1. | to greet, esp enthusiastically: the crowd hailed the actress with joy |
| 2. | to acclaim or acknowledge: they hailed him as their hero |
| 3. | to attract the attention of by shouting or gesturing: to hail a taxi; to hail a passing ship |
| 4. | to be a native (of); originate (in): she hails from India |
| —n | |
| 5. | the act or an instance of hailing |
| 6. | a shout or greeting |
| 7. | distance across which one can attract attention (esp in the phrase within hail) |
| —sentence substitute | |
| 8. | poetic an exclamation of greeting |
| [C12: from Old Norse heill | |
| 'hailer2 | |
| —n | |
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Word Origin & History
hail
"greetings!" c.1200, from O.N. heill "health, prosperity, good luck;" and O.E. hals, shortening of wæs hæil "be healthy" (see health and cf. wassail). The verb meaning "to call from a distance" is 1563, originally nautical. Hail fellow
well met is 1581, from a familiar greeting. Hail Mary (c.1300) is the angelic salutation (L. ave Maria), cf. Luke i.58, used as a devotional recitation.
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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Bible Dictionary
Hail definition
frozen rain-drops; one of the plagues of Egypt (Ex. 9:23). It is mentioned by Haggai as a divine judgment (Hag. 2:17). A hail-storm destroyed the army of the Amorites when they fought against Joshua (Josh. 10:11). Ezekiel represents the wall daubed with untempered mortar as destroyed by great hail-stones (Ezek. 13:11). (See also 38:22; Rev. 8:7; 11:19; 16:21.)
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