hailstone

«hailstone» in Mova's school dictionary: A small ball of ice that falls from storm clouds, like… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a hailstone, hailstones)

meaning for a pupil

A small ball of ice that falls from storm clouds, like frozen rain; many hailstones together are called hail. tree →

sense in the lessons

In science and weather lessons: hail forms in tall thunderclouds when raindrops are carried up high, freeze, and grow in layers of ice until they are heavy enough to fall. Hailstones are usually pea-sized but can be as big as a golf ball. Safety: big hail can hurt people and dent cars, so go indoors.

examples

• A hailstone bounced off the car roof. tree →
• Some hailstones were as big as marbles. tree →
• We cut a hailstone in half and saw rings of ice inside. tree →
• The hailstones made a loud noise on the tin roof. tree →
• Hailstones melted quickly on the warm path. tree →
• Go inside when the hailstones start to fall. tree →
• Mongan’s men made a roof of their shields, and the hailstones battered on the shields so terribly that even under them they were afraid. tree →

note

Countable: a hailstone, hailstones; «hail» is uncountable: «There was hail» (not «a hail»). Hail is not snow: hailstones are hard lumps of ice, snowflakes are soft crystals. Hail often falls in summer storms, not only in winter.

In the corpora

• When big hailstones fall, go indoors and stay away from windows and skylights, because hail can hurt people and break glass.
• At the brightness before Him, there passed through His thick clouds hailstones and coals of fire.
• The LORD also thundered in the heavens, and the Most High gave forth His voice; hailstones and coals of fire.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «hailstone» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.