What does hail mean?

Definitions for hail
heɪlha·il

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. hailnoun

    precipitation of ice pellets when there are strong rising air currents

  2. hailnoun

    many objects thrown forcefully through the air

    "a hail of pebbles"; "a hail of bullets"

  3. hailverb

    enthusiastic greeting

  4. acclaim, hail, heraldverb

    praise vociferously

    "The critics hailed the young pianist as a new Rubinstein"

  5. hail, comeverb

    be a native of

    "She hails from Kalamazoo"

  6. hailverb

    call for

    "hail a cab"

  7. hail, heraldverb

    greet enthusiastically or joyfully

  8. hailverb

    precipitate as small ice particles

    "It hailed for an hour"

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Hailinterj.

    A term of salutation now used only in poetry; health be to you.

    Etymology: hœl, health, Saxon: hail, therefore, is the same as salve of the Latins, or ὑγιαίνε of the Greeks, health be to you.

    Hail, hail, brave friend!
    Say to the king the knowledge of the broil
    As thou did’st leave it. William Shakespeare, Macbeth.

    Her sick head is bound about with clouds:
    It does not look as it would have a hail
    Or health wish’d in it, as on other morns. Ben Jonson.

    The angel hail
    Bestow’d, the holy salutation us’d
    Long after to blest Mary, second Eve. John Milton, Parad. Lost.

    Farewel, happy fields,
    Where joy for ever dwells! hail horrors! hail
    Infernal world! and thou profoundest hell
    Receive thy new possessor! John Milton, Paradise Lost, b. i.

    All hail, he cry’d, thy country’s grace and love;
    Once first of men below, now first of birds above. Dryd.

    Hail to the sun! from whose returning light
    The chearful soldier’s arms new lustre take,
    To deck the pomp of battle. Nicholas Rowe, Tamerlane.

  2. HAILnoun

    1.Drops of rain frozen in their falling. John Locke

    Etymology: hagel, Saxon.

    As thick as hail
    Came post on post. William Shakespeare, Macbeth.

  3. To Hailverb

    To salute; to call to.

    Etymology: from the noun.

    A galley well appointed, with a long boat, drawing near unto the shore, was hailed by a Turk, accompanied with a troop of horsemen. Richard Knolles, History of the Turks.

    Thrice call upon my name, thrice beat your breast,
    And hail me thrice to everlasting rest. Dryden.

  4. To Hailverb

    To pour down hail.

    My people shall dwell in a peaceable habitation when it shall hail, coming down on the forest. Is. xxxii. 19.

Wikipedia

  1. Hail

    Hail is a form of solid precipitation. It is distinct from ice pellets (American English "sleet"), though the two are often confused. It consists of balls or irregular lumps of ice, each of which is called a hailstone. Ice pellets generally fall in cold weather, while hail growth is greatly inhibited during low surface temperatures.Unlike other forms of water ice precipitation, such as graupel (which is made of rime ice), ice pellets (which are smaller and translucent), and snow (which consists of tiny, delicately crystalline flakes or needles), hailstones usually measure between 5 mm (0.2 in) and 15 cm (6 in) in diameter. The METAR reporting code for hail 5 mm (0.20 in) or greater is GR, while smaller hailstones and graupel are coded GS. Hail is possible within most thunderstorms (as it is produced by cumulonimbus), as well as within 2 nmi (3.7 km) of the parent storm. Hail formation requires environments of strong, upward motion of air within the parent thunderstorm (similar to tornadoes) and lowered heights of the freezing level. In the mid-latitudes, hail forms near the interiors of continents, while, in the tropics, it tends to be confined to high elevations. There are methods available to detect hail-producing thunderstorms using weather satellites and weather radar imagery. Hailstones generally fall at higher speeds as they grow in size, though complicating factors such as melting, friction with air, wind, and interaction with rain and other hailstones can slow their descent through Earth's atmosphere. Severe weather warnings are issued for hail when the stones reach a damaging size, as it can cause serious damage to human-made structures, and, most commonly, farmers' crops.

ChatGPT

  1. Hail

    Hail is a form of solid precipitation that occurs during thunderstorms when updrafts carry raindrops upward into extremely cold areas of the atmosphere, causing them to freeze into ice pellets. Hailstones typically have a round shape and can range in size from small pebbles to large golf balls or even larger.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Hailnoun

    small roundish masses of ice precipitated from the clouds, where they are formed by the congelation of vapor. The separate masses or grains are called hailstones

  2. Hailverb

    to pour down particles of ice, or frozen vapors

  3. Hailverb

    to pour forcibly down, as hail

  4. Hailadjective

    healthy. See Hale (the preferable spelling)

  5. Hailverb

    to call loudly to, or after; to accost; to salute; to address

  6. Hailverb

    to name; to designate; to call

  7. Hailverb

    to declare, by hailing, the port from which a vessel sails or where she is registered; hence, to sail; to come; -- used with from; as, the steamer hails from New York

  8. Hailverb

    to report as one's home or the place from whence one comes; to come; -- with from

  9. Hailverb

    an exclamation of respectful or reverent salutation, or, occasionally, of familiar greeting

  10. Hailnoun

    a wish of health; a salutation; a loud call

  11. Etymology: [See Hail, v. t.]

Wikidata

  1. Hail

    Hail is a form of solid precipitation. It consists of balls or irregular lumps of ice, each of which is called a hailstone. Unlike graupel, which is made of rime, and ice pellets, which are smaller and translucent, hailstones – on Earth – consist mostly of water ice and measure between 5 and 200 millimetres in diameter. The METAR reporting code for hail 5 mm or greater is GR, while smaller hailstones and graupel are coded GS. Hail is possible within most thunderstorms as it is produced by cumulonimbi, and within 2 nautical miles of the parent storm. Hail formation requires environments of strong, upward motion of air with the parent thunderstorm and lowered heights of the freezing level. In the mid-latitudes, hail forms near the interiors of continents, while in the tropics, it tends to be confined to high elevations. There are methods available to detect hail-producing thunderstorms using weather satellites and weather radar imagery. Hailstones generally fall at higher speeds as they grow in size, though complicating factors such as melting, friction with air, wind, and interaction with rain and other hailstones can slow their descent through Earth's atmosphere. Severe weather warnings are issued for hail when the stones reach a damaging size, as it can cause serious damage to human-made structures and, most commonly, farmers' crops.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Hail

    hāl, v.t. to greet: to call to, at a distance: to address one passing.—n. a call: greeting.—interj. or imper. (lit.) may you be in health.—n. Hail′-fell′ow, a familiar friend.—adj. on hearty and intimate terms—'Hail, fellow! well met,' often used as a kind of descriptive adjective.—Hail from, to come from. [Ice. heill, health.]

  2. Hail

    hāl, n. frozen rain or particles of ice falling from the clouds.—v.i. to rain hail.—v.t. to pour down in rapid succession.—ns. Hail′shot, small shot which scatters like hail; Hail′stone, a single stone or ball of hail; Hail′-storm, a storm accompanied with hail.—adj. Hail′y. [A.S. hagol; Ger. hagel.]

Military Dictionary and Gazetteer

  1. hail

    To accost; to call; to salute. A sentinel hails any one approaching his post with, “Who comes there?”

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Etymology and Origins

  1. Hail

    An exclamation of greeting derived from the Anglo-Saxon hæl, “health.” The Scandinavian heill expressed the same sentiment. See “Wassail.”

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. HAIL

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Hail is ranked #364 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Hail surname appeared 86,240 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 29 would have the surname Hail.

    73.1% or 63,076 total occurrences were White.
    21.6% or 18,628 total occurrences were Black.
    2.2% or 1,958 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
    2% or 1,802 total occurrences were of two or more races.
    0.5% or 457 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
    0.3% or 319 total occurrences were Asian.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of hail in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of hail in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of hail in a Sentence

  1. Ramayana:

    Men hail the rising sun with glee, They love his setting glow to see, But fail to mark that every day In fragments bears their life away.

  2. Angela Underwood Jacobs:

    Chad Wolf, the acting secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, joined the ceremony to honor Underwood and to deliver an American flag to his family. Gov. Gavin Newsom sent an officer of the California Highway Patrol who presented the family with a California flag. In a separate video tribute, Wolf condemned the senseless cowardly violence that took Underwoods life. Officer Underwood gave his life protecting us and we owe him and his family and colleagues a debt of gratitude we will never be able to fully repay, said Wolf. George Phillips, childhood friend of slain Federal Protective Services Officer Dave Patrick Underwood, speaks during a memorial service for Underwood on Friday, June 19, 2020, in Pinole, Calif. Underwood was fatally shot as he was guarding the Ronald V. Dellums Federal Building in Oakland, Calif., amid protests on May 29. (Associated Press) Underwood died from gunshot wounds in a drive-by shooting the night of May 29 as a protest in downtown Oakland that began peacefully sank into chaos. Underwood and a colleague were working that night as contract security officers for the Department of Homeland Securitys Federal Protective Service. Federal authorities say the shooter used the protest as cover for the crime. Authorities say that Underwood was targeted because he wore a uniform. Last week, the FBI announced murder charges against Air Force Staff Sgt. Steve Carrillo. Authorities say Carrillo used the same homemade AR-15-style rifle eight days later to kill a Santa Cruz deputy in a hail of gunfire that wounded four other officers. Carrillo faces separate state charges for the June 6 fatal shooting of Santa Cruz County sheriffs Sgt. Damon Gutzwiller. Authorities allege that Carrillo, 32, had ties to the far-right, anti-government boogaloo movement and had hatched a plan to target federal law enforcement officials during the Oakland protest. Colleagues described Underwood as hard-working, highly respected and conscientious. Friends and family talked of his hearty laugh, his personal style he was a sharp dresser and his giving heart. When he stopped playing baseball as an adult, he donated to local youth organizations, so he could help kids find joy in the sport he loved. Underwood was the kind of guy you went to for advice, his older sister said. Hed always say, Angie, believe in yourself. Work hard, and ask for what you want, which is exactly what our mom and dad would have said.

  3. Matthew Kumjian:

    Its incredible, this is the extreme upper end of what youd expect from hail.

  4. The National Weather Service:

    Locally damaging wind and marginally severe hail also may occur from the lower Missouri and lower Ohio Valleys to the mid-Atlantic coast.

  5. Haley Brink:

    It was very loud. The hail was pelting the house, hitting the windows, we were just hoping that the windows were going to hold up and wouldn't break, at one point it was so loud that you couldn't hear a person ten feet away from you talking without yelling.

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