Noun hail has 2 senses
- hail - precipitation of ice pellets when there are strong rising air currents
--1 is a kind of precipitation, downfall
--1 has part: hailstone
- hail - enthusiastic greeting
--2 is a kind of greeting, salutation
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Verb hail has 5 senses
- acclaim, hail, herald - praise vociferously; "The critics hailed the young pianist as a new Rubinstein"
--1 is one way to applaud
Sample sentence:
Sam and Sue hail the movie
- hail, come - be a native of; "She hails from Kalamazoo"
--2 is one way to be
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s PP
- hail - call for; "hail a cab"
--3 is one way to call, send for
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
- hail, herald - greet enthusiastically or joyfully
--4 is one way to greet, recognize, recognise
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s somebody
- hail - precipitate as small ice particles; "It hailed for an hour"
--5 is one way to precipitate, come down, fall
Sample sentence:
It was hailing all day long
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