Last Updated ：2025/11/19

hail

IPA(Pronunciation)

/heɪl/

uncountable countable broadly

(meteorology, uncountable) Balls or pieces of ice falling as precipitation, often in connection with a thunderstorm. / (meteorology, countable) An occurrence of this type of precipitation; a hailstorm.

Japanese Meaning

雷雨などに伴って空から降ってくる氷の塊や氷のかけらのこと（雹）。 / このような氷の降下現象そのもの、すなわち雹雨や雹嵐と呼ばれる気象現象。

What is this buttons?

Hail hammered the roof for several minutes, sounding like a drum.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

数分間、屋根を叩きつけるように雹が降り、太鼓のような音がしました。

Details

Sense（1）

(meteorology, uncountable) Balls or pieces of ice falling as precipitation, often in connection with a thunderstorm.

Sense（2）

(meteorology, countable) An occurrence of this type of precipitation; a hailstorm.

Sense（3）

(countable, by extension) A rapid, intense barrage by a large number of projectiles or other objects.

Their lack of good intelligence also meant that they vastly overestimated the size of their foes for far too long, hails of armor-piercing shells doing comparatively little damage compared to the high explosive that they should have been using.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation