transcription, транскрипция: [ heɪl ]
( hails, hailing, hailed)
1.
If a person, event, or achievement is hailed as important or successful, they are praised publicly.
Faulkner has been hailed as the greatest American novelist of his generation...
US magazines hailed her as the greatest rock’n’roll singer in the world...
VERB : usu passive , be V-ed as n , V n as n
2.
Hail consists of small balls of ice that fall like rain from the sky.
...a sharp short-lived storm with heavy hail.
N-UNCOUNT
3.
When it hails , hail falls like rain from the sky.
It started to hail, huge great stones.
VERB : it V
4.
A hail of things, usually small objects, is a large number of them that hit you at the same time and with great force.
The victim was hit by a hail of bullets...
N-SING : N of n
5.
Someone who hails from a particular place was born there or lives there. ( FORMAL )
I hail from Brighton...
VERB : V from n
6.
If you hail a taxi, you wave at it in order to stop it because you want the driver to take you somewhere.
I hurried away to hail a taxi.
VERB : V n