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hail

/heyl/US // heɪl //UK // (heɪl) //

雹子,欢呼,欢呼声,雹

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
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    • : to cheer, salute, or greet; welcome.
    • : to acclaim; approve enthusiastically: The crowds hailed the conquerors. They hailed the recent advances in medicine.
    • : to call out to in order to stop, attract attention, ask aid, etc.: to hail a cab.
v.无主动词 verb
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    • : to call out in order to greet, attract attention, etc.: The people on land hailed as we passed in the night.
n.名词 noun
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    • : a shout or call to attract attention: They answered the hail of the marooned boaters.
    • : a salutation or greeting: a cheerful hail.
    • : the act of hailing.
interj.感叹词 interjection
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      • : hail from, to have as one's place of birth or residence: Nearly everyone here hails from the Midwest.

    Phrases

    • hail from
    • within call (hail)

    Synonyms & Antonyms

    Examples

    • A man struck in a hail of eight bullets Sunday afternoon had collapsed in the parking lot of a 7-Eleven in Southwest Washington.

    • That day at the park, we packed our bags while dodging peanut-size hail in a parking lot near String Lake.

    • Each storm can bring a suite of problems, from hail to high winds, but it’s lightning that is your number one concern.

    • Severe thunderstorms can bring lightning and large hail on some occasions.

    • It’s everything from getting a cab hail to wondering what’s going to happen when you get pulled over.

    • Why call a taxi when you can hail a Lyft to pick up visiting family and friends?

    • Elsewhere on the Internet, and often, Turkers butt heads over which tools work best, or what nation they hail from.

    • They unleashed a hail of bullets to rival the final scene in ‘Bonnie and Clyde.’

    • Victoria and Zoe Yin, who hail from Boston, were both deemed child prodigies at young ages.

    • As an election tactic, it was a Hail-Mary move: a half-hour address by an aging actor of no political standing or constituency.

    • But hail shall be in the descent of the forest, and the city shall be made very low.

    • Then he broke off, and when he next gave hint of his whereabouts, it was to hail us from the nearest point on the canyon rim.

    • Thickets were swept as with a great jagged scythe by the leaden hail which swept through them.

    • He is the true soldier who knows how to die and stand his ground in the midst of a hail of bullets.

    • Slipping the cable once more, the lifeboat gallantly dashed into the thickest of the fight, and soon got within hail of the wreck.