Meaning

10 senses
  1. (impersonal)To have hailstones fall from the sky.

    They say it's going to hail tomorrow.

    hageln, graupeln

    град идётgrad idjót

  2. (intransitive)To send or release hail.

    The cloud would hail down furiously within a few minutes.

  3. To pour down in rapid succession.

    hageln

  4. (transitive)To greet; give salutation to; salute.

    grüßen

    приве́тствоватьprivétstvovatʹ

    greet enthusiastically or joyfully

  5. (transitive)To name; to designate; to call.

    He was hailed as a hero.

    feiern als

    call for

  6. (transitive)To call out loudly in order to gain the attention of.

    Hail a taxi.

    rufen

    оклика́тьoklikátʹ

  7. To call out loudly in order to gain the attention of.

    (Australia, UK, broadly, transitive)To indicate, from a designated stop or otherwise, to the driver of a public transport vehicle that one wishes to board and travel on the vehicle, usually using hand signals such as waving.

    In Melbourne, you would usually have to hail a tram when you are travelling late at night and there are no other passengers waiting at your stop.

  8. (transitive)To signal in order to initiate communication with.

  9. (transitive)In the game of uppies and downies, to throw (the ball) repeatedly up and down at the goal location, in order to score a point.

  10. To originate (from), be native (to) or be based (in)

    be a native of

Examples

105 sentences
  1. The rain turned to hail.

    Дощ перетворився на град.

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  2. Have you ever seen it hail?

    ruТы когда-нибудь видел град?

    deHast du es je hageln sehen?

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  3. There's no need to hail a taxi.

    deEs ist nicht nötig ein Taxi zu rufen.

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  4. Tom hailed a cab.

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  5. I hailed a cab.

    deIch habe ein Taxi gerufen.

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Translations

8 languages
Русский
By meaning 3
to fall from the sky, of hail:
to greet:
to call out loudly in order to gain the attention of:
Deutsch
By meaning 4
to fall from the sky, of hail:
to greet:
to name, to designate (as someone/something):
to call out loudly in order to gain the attention of:

Origin

From Middle English haylen, haulien, hawelien, from Old English hagolian, hagalian (“to ha

From Middle English haylen, haulien, hawelien, from Old English hagolian, hagalian (“to hail”), from Proto-West Germanic *haglōn, from Proto-Germanic *haglōną (“to hail”), from the noun (see above). Cognate with Saterland Frisian hailje (“to hail”), West Frisian heilje (“to hail”), Dutch hagelen (“to hail”), German Low German hageln (“to hail”), German hageln (“to hail”), Danish hagle (“to hail”), Swedish hagla (“to hail”), Norwegian Nynorsk hagle, hagla (“to hail”), Faroese hegla (“to hail”), Icelandic hagla (“to hail”).

From Middle English heyl (“healthy, sound”), from Old Norse heill, from Proto-Germanic *hailaz (“whole, entire, healthy”). The verb is from Middle English heilen, itself from the adjective. Doublet of whole, hale, and heil.

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Forms

hails, hailing, hailed, hailed
Base formhail · to hail
3rd person singularhails
Present participlehailing
Past simplehailed
Past participlehailed

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyhail
he, she, ithails

Past simpleLesson

all personshailed

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave hailed
he, she, ithas hailed

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill hail

Synonyms

3 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

9 related words

See also

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