hail

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

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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