Hail

[heɪl] or [hel]

解释:

(noun.) enthusiastic greeting.

(noun.) many objects thrown forcefully through the air; 'a hail of pebbles'; 'a hail of bullets'.

(noun.) precipitation of ice pellets when there are strong rising air currents.

(verb.) greet enthusiastically or joyfully.

(verb.) call for; 'hail a cab'.

(verb.) be a native of; 'She hails from Kalamazoo'.

(verb.) precipitate as small ice particles; 'It hailed for an hour'.

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解释:

(n.) 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.

(v. i.) To pour down particles of ice, or frozen vapors.

(v. t.) To pour forcibly down, as hail.

(a.) Healthy. See Hale (the preferable spelling).

(v. t.) To call loudly to, or after; to accost; to salute; to address.

(v. t.) To name; to designate; to call.

(v. i.) 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.

(v. i.) To report as one's home or the place from whence one comes; to come; -- with from.

(v. t.) An exclamation of respectful or reverent salutation, or, occasionally, of familiar greeting.

(n.) A wish of health; a salutation; a loud call.

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同义词及近义词：

v. a. Salute, greet, welcome, call to.

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同义词及反义词：

SYN:Accost, address, salute, call, welcome, greet

ANT:Ignore, pass, cut, avoid

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解释:

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.

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.

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