What's the difference between hail and hale?

Hail


Definition:

  • (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.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The agreement, hailed as a "landmark" deal and a breakthrough by politicians and the green lobby alike, came before a crucial EU summit opening in Brussels tomorrow at which 27 prime ministers and presidents are supposed to finalise an ambitious package to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 20% by 2020.
  • (2) "It's very clear now that the administration agrees with us," said Wyden, hailing a switch from both the Bush and Obama administration stance that "collecting these records is vital to western civilisation".
  • (3) Many other innovations are also being hailed as the future of food, from fake chicken to 3D printing and from algae to lab-grown meat.
  • (4) Three million of us are behind our team!” trumpets La Republica, who hail “the national team's exemplary behaviour so far, both individually and collectively.” Naturally they were saying exactly the same thing after the defeat to Costa Rica.
  • (5) The win reduced Chelsea’s lead over them to six points and Pellegrini hailed a first clean sheet in five matches.
  • (6) Chancellor George Osborne hailed today's GDP data as a sign that the UK is recovering ( see his statement here ).
  • (7) Read more The agreement earned a mixed initial reception, with the UN hailing a “bold” and “groundbreaking” outcome even as other delegates complained of “a terrible precedent” and lack of moral leadership.
  • (8) Didi Chuxing also claims it accounts for 87% of China’s ride-hailing market, in which US-based Uber is trying to break through.
  • (9) Scotland's Rural Affairs Secretary Richard Lochhead said: "Scotland is rightly hailed as a land of food and drink, which is underpinned by the record exports achieved in both areas in 2011.
  • (10) The draft released last Monday had been hailed by some church observers and gay rights groups as “a stunning change” in how the Catholic hierarchy talked about gay people.
  • (11) Yet victory at Wembley will be hailed as vindication of the decision to change manager.
  • (12) This finding has been hailed as a landmark in cell physiology which may reveal new mechanisms of viral pathogenesis.
  • (13) While the 1998 World Cup victory by a multicultural “black, blanc, beur” French football team led by Zinedine Zidane was hailed as a new beginning for a mixed nation, it did not stop the race rows and monkey chants in French football.
  • (14) He hailed the party's commitment to lift low and average earners out of tax, and rounded on those who criticised the Lib Dems' proposed "mansion tax" – a tax on properties worth over £2m – as an attack on "ordinary middle-class owners", saying: "You wonder what part of the solar system they live in."
  • (15) He hailed the decision to award the Games to London, saying: "This is just the most fantastic opportunity to do everything we ever dreamed of in British sport."
  • (16) Amid reports that the Treasury is concerned about the escalating costs of the project, which have now reached £42.6bn, the chancellor hailed the chance to change the "economic geography" of Britain.
  • (17) In what is being hailed as one of the first tangible signs in a change of outlook for Greece, the European Investment Bank has also agreed to inject up to €750m into the cashed-starved Greek economy with immediate effect.
  • (18) The US Department of Justice hailed a “landmark achievement”.
  • (19) Cameron also did not know about Ashcroft's status as recently as 8 February – by which time Hague knew – when the Tory leader hailed the change in the law in a speech on new politics.
  • (20) Taxis will still accept customers hailing them from the street.

Hale


Definition:

  • (a.) Sound; entire; healthy; robust; not impaired; as, a hale body.
  • (n.) Welfare.
  • (v. t.) To pull; to drag; to haul.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Hale-Stoner mice (6 to 8 weeks old) were injected with 7 X 10(5) CFU of Candida albicans 336 isolated from a patient.
  • (2) Comet Hale-Bopp graced the night skies in 1997 and was easily visible to the naked eye for months.
  • (3) Stephen Hale, Green Alliance director, said: "Ed Miliband's first major decision suggests he gets it.
  • (4) Phase 1 studies of "in vivo purging" with a monovalent CD3 antibody (Clark et al., 1989), and also with a genetically engineered humanized IgG1 (CAMPATH-1H) (Hale et al., 1988b) suggest that these limitations can be overcome.
  • (5) It will also star Tony Hale, known for his hapless characters in Arrested Development and Veep, and Natasha Lyonne, currently enjoying a career renaissance for her role in Netflix series Orange is the New Black.
  • (6) Asked what it felt like being the only woman justice, Hale said: "Most of the time you are not conscious of it.
  • (7) The Bank confirmed that the governor had had a private lunch with Hale, but said it had been two months ago.
  • (8) Three analyses are reported that are based on data from 19 studies using lexical tasks and a reduced version of the Hale, Myerson, and Wagstaff (1987) nonlexical data set.
  • (9) "One might just as well say that logically, on Lady Hale's approach, it would be irrational not to supply a night carer to take the client to the commode, irrespective of cost, if there is any likelihood of the client having to urinate even once during the night."
  • (10) Lady Hale's judgment adds weight to calls from the House of Lords select committee on the Mental Capacity Act 2005 last week for the safeguards to be replaced with procedures which provide an independent check on a person's care, but which are more in keeping with the ethos of the Act."
  • (11) The home secretary also announced that the Metropolitan police had agreed to investigate allegations by a journalist, Don Hale, that a file of allegations involving prominent people, including MPs, passed to him by Barbara Castle, had been seized from him by special branch officers.
  • (12) But as the deputy president of the court, Lady Hale, pointed out in the ruling [pdf] : “It cannot possibly be in the best interests of the children affected by the cap to deprive them of the means to provide them with adequate food, clothing, warmth and housing, the basic necessities of life.” The court urged the government to review the cap accordingly.
  • (13) Baroness Brenda Hale of Richmond (supreme court judge) 5.
  • (14) In the case of CGL in chronic phase, there is also an associated extra risk of relapse, particularly in patients where engraftment may have been compromised (Hale et al., 1988a).
  • (15) The former work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith said Hale had pro-EU views and warned that it was not the job of judges to tell parliament what to do.
  • (16) Examples include parts of the Varsity Line between Oxford and Cambridge, Lea Bridge station between Stratford and Tottenham Hale, which reopened in May after the council provided £5m in funding, and in Bristol, work to reopen the Portishead line will begin in 2018 .
  • (17) At a press conference convened at Cornelius's Romanian-Italian restaurant in Tottenham Hale, north London, he questioned the actions of Ukip candidates "scapegoating" immigrants.
  • (18) Hales believes there is the goodwill to pull it off.
  • (19) In an additional judgment, Lady Hale , deputy president of the court, said she had "some sympathy for the view of the Strasbourg court that our present law [on prisoner voting] is arbitrary and indiscriminate.".
  • (20) Histochemical methods were used for the detection of glycogen (periodic acid-Schiff), acid mucopolysaccharides (Hale) and acid phosphatases (Gomori) by light microscopy.

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