different between cyclone vs hail

English

Etymology

Coined by Henry Piddington, probably in the 1840s, and based on some term in Ancient Greek. Sources disagree on the date and on which Ancient Greek term, though it had to be something derived from either ?????? (kúklos, “circle, wheel”) or ?????? (kukló?, “go around in a circle, form a circle, encircle”), for example the present active participle ?????? (kuklôn). See cycle and wheel.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?sa?.klo?n/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?sa?.kl??n/

Noun

cyclone (plural cyclones)

1. (broad sense) A weather phenomenon consisting of a system of winds rotating around a center of low atmospheric pressure
2. (narrow sense) Such weather phenomenon occurring in the South Pacific and Indian Ocean
3. A low pressure system.
4. (informal) The more or less violent, small-scale circulations such as tornadoes, waterspouts, and dust devils.
5. A strong wind.
6. A cyclone separator; the cylindrical vortex tube within such a separator

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:cyclone.

Derived terms

• anticyclone
• cyclone cellar
• cyclone pit

Translations

Verb

cyclone (third-person singular simple present cyclones, present participle cycloning, simple past and past participle cycloned)

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   • 1997, D. J. H. Jones, Murder in the New Age

     White dust was cycloning at the bottom of ravines that cut for miles into the red flatness

   • 2015, Robert J. Morgan, Mastering Life Before It's Too Late

     Now, all of a sudden, I had to juggle class schedules with study time and assignment deadlines and work hours. It quickly cycloned into a sort of frantic agitation with all-nighters, near misses, and frenzied nerves.

See also

• hurricane
• typhoon
• polar vortex
• cyclone on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?????? (kuklôn), present active participle of ?????? (kukló?, “I encircle”), from ?????? (kúklos, “circle”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /si.klon/

Noun

cyclone m (plural cyclones)

1. cyclone (rotating system of winds)

Further reading

• “cyclone” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /he?l/, [he???]
• Rhymes: -e?l
• Homophone: hale

Etymology 1

From Middle English hayle, haile, hail, from Old English hæ?l, hæ?el, from Proto-Germanic *haglaz (compare West Frisian heil, Low German Hagel, Dutch hagel, German Hagel, Danish hagl). Either from Proto-Indo-European *kag?los (“pebble”), or from *?o?ló-, a reduplication of *?el- (“cold”) (compare Old Norse héla (“frost”)).

Root-cognates outside of Germanic include Welsh caill (“testicle”), Breton kell (“testicle”), Lithuanian šeš?lis (“shade, shadow”), Ancient Greek ?????? (kákhl?x, “pebble”), Albanian çakëll (“pebble”), Sanskrit ????? (?í?ira, “cool, cold”).

Noun

hail (uncountable)

1. Balls or pieces of ice falling as precipitation, often in connection with a thunderstorm.

Derived terms

• hailstone
• hail storm / hailstorm
• hail shaft / hailshaft

Translations

Verb

hail (third-person singular simple present hails, present participle hailing, simple past and past participle hailed)

1. (impersonal) Of hail, to fall from the sky.

   They say it's going to hail tomorrow.

2. (intransitive) To send or release hail.

   The cloud would hail down furiously within a few minutes.

3. To pour down in rapid succession.

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English heil (“healthy, sound”), from Old Norse heill, from Proto-Germanic *hailaz (“whole, entire, healthy”). The verb is from Middle English heilen, itself from the adjective. Doublet of whole and hale.

Adjective

hail (comparative hailer, superlative hailest)

1. (obsolete) Healthy, whole, safe.

Verb

hail (third-person singular simple present hails, present participle hailing, simple past and past participle hailed)

1. (transitive) to greet; give salutation to; salute.
2. (transitive) To name; to designate; to call.

3. (transitive) to call out loudly in order to gain the attention of

4. (transitive) To signal in order to initiate communication with.

Derived terms

• hailer
• hail from

Translations

Interjection

hail

1. An exclamation of respectful or reverent salutation, or, occasionally, of familiar greeting.

Derived terms

• all hail
• Hail Mary

Translations

Anagrams

• Hlai, hila

Estonian

Noun

hail

1. adessive singular of hai

Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hal?/

Noun

hail

1. h-prothesized form of ail

Middle English

Etymology 1

Noun

hail (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of hayle (“hail”)

Etymology 2

Adjective

hail

1. Alternative form of heil (“healthy, sound”)

Noun

hail (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of heil (“health, welfare”)

Scots

Etymology 1

From Old English h?l (“healthy, safe”), from Proto-Germanic *hailaz (“whole, safe, sound”), from Proto-Indo-European *kóh?ilus (“healthy, whole”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [hel]
• (South Scots) IPA^(key): [hj?l]

Adjective

hail (comparative hailer, superlative hailest)

1. whole
2. free or recovered from disease, healthy, wholesome
3. (of people, parts of the body, etc.) free from injury, safe, sound, unhurt
4. (of material objects and of time, numbers etc.) whole, entire, complete, sound, unbroken, undamaged

Derived terms

Noun

hail (plural hails)

1. the whole, the whole amount or number

Verb

hail (third-person singular present hails, present participle hailin, past hailt, past participle hailt)

1. to heal, cure

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [hel]

Verb

hail (third-person singular present hails, present participle hailin, past hailt, past participle hailt)

1. (sports) to drive the ball through the goal, etc.

Derived terms

• ower hail (“to overtake”)

Noun

hail (plural hails)

1. (sports) goal, the shout when a goal is scored, the goal area

Etymology 3

From Old English hæ?l, hæ?el, from Proto-Germanic *haglaz, either from Proto-Indo-European *kag?los (“pebble”), or from *?o?ló-, a reduplication of *?el- (“cold”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [hel]

Noun

hail (uncountable)

1. (weather) hail, hailstones
2. small shot, pellets

Derived terms

• hailie-pickle (“hailstone”)
• hailstane (“hailstone”)

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hai?l/

Adjective

hail

1. h-prothesized form of ail (“second”)

Mutation

Westrobothnian

Etymology

From Old Norse heill, from Proto-Germanic *hailaz, from Proto-Indo-European *kóh?ilus (“healthy, whole”). Akin to English whole.

Pronunciation 1

• IPA^(key): /he(??)?l/, /h?(??)?l/, /ha(??)?l/

  Rhymes: -é???l

Adjective

hail (neuter haillt)

1. whole, complete, full, entire

   Dem sat å gamsä heilä ättermedagen

   They sat and chewed the fat the entire afternoon.

Pronunciation 2

• IPA^(key): /²he(??)?l/, /²h?(??)?l/, /²ha(??)?l/

  Rhymes: -è???l

Verb

hail (preterite haile, middle hailes, passive val haile)

1. (transitive) To heal.

Synonyms

• häli