different between support vs hail

support

English

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /s??p??t/, [s??p???t]
  • (General American) IPA(key): /s??p??t/, [s??p???t], [s??p?o?t]
  • (rhotic, without the horsehoarse merger) IPA(key): /s??po(?)?t/
  • (non-rhotic, without the horsehoarse merger) IPA(key): /s??po?t/
  • Rhymes: -??(?)t
  • Hyphenation: sup?port

Etymology 1

From Middle English supporten, from Old French supporter, from Latin support?. Displaced Old English underwreþian and Old English fultum.

Verb

support (third-person singular simple present supports, present participle supporting, simple past and past participle supported)

  1. (transitive) To keep from falling.
  2. (transitive) To answer questions and resolve problems regarding something sold.
  3. (transitive) To back a cause, party, etc., mentally or with concrete aid.
  4. (transitive) To help, particularly financially.
  5. To verify; to make good; to substantiate; to establish; to sustain.
    • 1754, Jonathan Edwards, The Freedom of the Will
      to urge such arguments, as though they were sufficient to support and demonstrate a whole scheme of moral philosophy
  6. (transitive) To serve, as in a customer-oriented mindset; to give support to.
  7. (transitive) To be designed (said of machinery, electronics, or computers, or their parts, accessories, peripherals, or programming) to function compatibly with or provide the capacity for.
  8. (transitive) To be accountable for, or involved with, but not responsible for.
  9. (archaic) To endure without being overcome; bear; undergo; to tolerate.
    • This fierce demeanour and his insolence / The patience of a god could not support.
    • 1881, Robert Louis Stevenson, Virginibus Puerisque:
      For a strong affection such moments are worth supporting, and they will end well; for your advocate is in your lover's heart and speaks her own language []
  10. To assume and carry successfully, as the part of an actor; to represent or act; to sustain.
Synonyms
  • (to keep from falling): underprop, uphold, stut
Antonyms
  • (to back a cause, party, etc.): oppose
Derived terms
  • supportable
  • supported
  • supportive
Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English support, from Anglo-Norman and Middle French support. Displaced Old English underwreþung.

Noun

support (countable and uncountable, plural supports)

  1. (sometimes attributive) Something which supports.
  2. Financial or other help.
  3. Answers to questions and resolution of problems regarding something sold.
  4. (mathematics) in relation to a function, the set of points where the function is not zero, or the closure of that set.
  5. (fuzzy set theory) A set whose elements are at least partially included in a given fuzzy set (i.e., whose grade of membership in that fuzzy set is strictly greater than zero).
  6. Evidence.
  7. (computing) Compatibility and functionality for a given product or feature.
  8. An actor playing a subordinate part with a star.
  9. An accompaniment in music.
  10. (gymnastics) Clipping of support position.
  11. (structural analysis) Horizontal, vertical or rotational support of structures: movable, hinged, fixed. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
Antonyms
  • (mathematics): kernel
Hyponyms
  • moral support
  • (answers to questions and resolution of problems regarding something sold): first-level support, second-level support, third-level support
  • (military): combat support
Derived terms
  • support act
  • support group
Translations

French

Etymology

From the verb supporter.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sy.p??/

Noun

support m (plural supports)

  1. support
  2. base
  3. (heraldry) supporter

Further reading

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

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hail

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

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