hail 
hail (hāl)
transitive verb
- to welcome, greet, etc. with or as with cheers; acclaim
- to name by way of tribute; salute as they hailed him their leader
- to call out to or signal to, as in summoning or greeting to hail a taxi
Etymology: ME hailen, to salute, greet < hail, heil < ON heill, whole, sound, akin to OE hal (see hale, whole): used as a salutation
noun
- the act of hailing or greeting
- the distance that a shout will carry within hail
used to signify tribute, greeting, etc.
hail fellow well met
very sociable or friendly to everyone, esp. in a superficial manner
hail from
to be from; come from (one's birthplace or established residence)
hail (hāl)
noun
- rounded pieces of ice that are larger than 5 mm (.2 in) and sometimes fall during thunderstorms; frozen raindrops; hailstones
- a falling, showering, etc. of hail, or in the manner of hail a hail of bullets
Etymology: ME haile < OE hægel, var. of hagol, akin to Ger hagel < IE base *kaghlo-, small pebble > Gr kachlēx
intransitive verb
to drop or pour down hail: usually in an impersonal construction it is hailing
Etymology: ME hailen < OE hagalian
transitive verb
to shower, hurl, pour, etc. violently in the manner of hail: often with on or upon to hail curses on someone
hail
v.
Object
- cab: Jessie can't hail a cab on the streets then sees a police car cruise by.
- taxi: You can also hail a water taxi, usually a small fishing boat to take you to Calis.
- success: However, it was still hailed a success by police.
- hero: If you cheat or defeat the system then all well and good, you are hailed a hero.
- achievement: The government has hailed this achievement as a '20 year high ' in teaching numbers.
Subject
- critic: Released in February 1977 Marquee Moon was hailed by critics as one of the most striking and original recording debuts in years.
Preposition: as
- savior: They were hailed as potential saviors for they were expected to lead Lincoln to Division Two safety.
- masterpiece: Houellebecq's novel about a French civil servant's voyage of self discovery as a tourist in Thailand has been hailed as a masterpiece.
- breakthrough: Investing in communities, as it's known, was hailed as a breakthrough.
- hero: He raises the alarm and is hailed as a hero.
- triumph: The 250-metre high structure was designed by Sir Norman Foster and is already being hailed as an engineering triumph.
- genius: Phillips deserves to be rescued from obscurity and hailed as the genius he is.
Noun phrase with adjective complement
- soccer: Soccer: Parky hails young guns Soccer: Liam's happy with points Soccer: Port Vale 0-1 Colchester.. .
Modifies a noun
- storm: A harvest can be devastated by a freak hail storm in August.
- shower: The poem finishes with the girls, " dispersing like a quick hail shower / into the streets of Aberdare " .
- stone: There were 2 days with hail; ice pellets fell on the 19th and hail stones of more than 11mm on the 20th.
Preposition: of
- gunfire: Then a hail of gunfire splattered the wall behind him.
- bullet: Radley, waiting for orders, delayed his own withdrawal till the last possible moment, and drove away through a hail of bullets.
- arrow: Alison chooses a different shot, where the birds dart from left to right like a hail of arrows.
Preposition: by
- critic: Released in February 1977 Marquee Moon was hailed by critics as one of the most striking and original recording debuts in years.
Thou art a beaten dog beneath the hail, A swollen magpie in a fitful sun, Half black half white Nor knowst'ou wing from tail Pull down thy vanity.
Ave Caesar, morituri te salutant! Hail Caesar, we who are about to die salute you!
Hail fellow, well met, All dirty and wet: Find out, if you can, Who's master, who's man.
Hail Mary, quite contrary!
Hail nothing full of nothing, nothing is with thee.
Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: hethat believeth shall not make haste.Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.
Hail to the Chief who in honour advances! Honoured and bless'd be the evergreen Pine!
I wield the flail of the lashing hail, And whiten the green plains under, And then again I dissolve it in rain, And laugh as I pass in thunder.
'O, pa!' he cried.'Don't beat me, pa! And I'llI'll saya Hail Mary for you I'll saya Hail Mary for you, pa, if you don't beat me.'
All my house, But now, steamed like a bath with her thick breath. A lawyer could not have been heard; nor scarce Another woman, such a hail of words She has let fall.
I am going a long way With these thou se'stöif indeed I go (For all my mind is clouded with a doubt)ö To the island-valley of Avilion; Where falls not hail, or rain, or any snow, Nor ever wind blows loudly; but it lies Deep-meadowed, happy, fair with orchard lawns And bowery hollows crowed with summer sea, Where I will heal me of my grievous wound.
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