Hailed vs Bailed - What's the difference?
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(hail)
Balls or pieces of ice falling as precipitation, often in connection with a thunderstorm.
(impersonal) Said of the weather when hail is falling.
to send or release hail
to greet; give salutation to; salute.
To name; to designate; to call.
* Milton
to call out loudly in order to gain the attention of
An exclamation of respectful or reverent salutation, or, occasionally, of familiar greeting.
* Shakespeare
(bail)
Security, usually a sum of money, exchanged for the release of an arrested person as a guarantee of that person's appearance for trial.
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(legal, UK) Release from imprisonment on payment of such money.
(legal, UK) The person providing such payment.
A bucket or scoop used for removing water from a boat etc.
* Captain Cook
(obsolete) Custody; keeping.
* Spenser
To secure the release of an arrested person by providing bail.
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(legal) To release a person under such guarantee.
(legal) To hand over personal property to be held temporarily by another as a bailment.
(nautical) To remove (water) from a boat by scooping it out.
* Capt. J. Smith
(nautical) To remove water from (a boat) by scooping it out.
* R. H. Dana, Jr.
To set free; to deliver; to release.
* Spenser
(slang) To exit quickly.
* 2010 September, Jeannette Cooperman, "Bringing It Home", , ISSN 1090-5723, volume 16, issue 9, page 62:
(informal) To fail to meet a commitment.
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A hoop, ring or handle (especially of a kettle or bucket) .
* 2010 , John M. Findley, Just Lucky ,
A stall for a cow (or other animal) (usually tethered with a semi-circular hoop) .
* 1953 , British Institute of Management, Centre for Farm Management, Farm Management Association, Farm Managememt , 1960, John Wiley,
* 2011 , Edith H. Whetham, Joan Thirsk, The Agrarian History of England and Wales , Volume 8: Volumes 1914-1939,
A hinged bar as a restraint for animals, or on a typewriter.
(chiefly, Australia, and, New Zealand) A frame to restrain a cow during milking or feeding.
* 2011 , Bob Ellis, Hush Now, Don't Cry ,
A hoop, ring, or other object used to connect a pendant to a necklace.
(cricket) One of the two wooden crosspieces that rest on top of the stumps to form a wicket.
(furniture) Normally curved handle suspended between sockets as a drawer pull. This may also be on a kettle or pail, as the wire bail handle shown in the drawing.
(rare) To confine.
(Australia, New Zealand) To secure (a cow) by placing its head in a bail for milking.
(Australia, New Zealand) To keep (a traveller) detained in order to rob them; to corner (a wild animal); loosely, to detain, hold up. (Usually with (up).)
* 2006 , Clive James, North Face of Soho , Picador 2007, p. 128:
As verbs the difference between hailed and bailed
is that hailed is (hail) while bailed is (bail).hailed
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*hail
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) haile, hail, from (etyl) ). Root-cognates outside of Germanic include (etyl) .Noun
(-)Derived terms
* hailstone * hail storm / hailstorm * hail shaft / hailshaftVerb
(en verb)- They say it's going to hail tomorrow.
- The cloud would hail down furiously within a few minutes .
Etymology 2
The adjective hail is a variant of (from the early 13th century). The transitive verb with the meaning "to salute" is also from the 13th century. The cognate verb heal is already Old English (. Also cognate is whole, from Old English (the spelling with wh- is unetymological, introduced in the 15th century).Verb
(en verb)- And such a son as all men hailed me happy.
- He was hailed as a hero.
- Hail a taxi.
Derived terms
* hailer * hail fromInterjection
(en-intj)- Hail , brave friend.
bailed
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(wikipedia bail)Etymology 1
From the (etyl) verb .Noun
(en noun)- The bail of a canoe made of a human skull.
- Silly Faunus now within their bail .
Derived terms
* jump bail * out on bailVerb
(en verb)- to bail''' cloth to a tailor to be made into a garment; to '''bail goods to a carrier
- to bail water out of a boat
- buckets to bail out the water
- to bail a boat
- By the help of a small bucket and our hats we bailed her out.
- Ne none there was to rescue her, ne none to bail .
Derived terms
* bailment * bailor * bailee * bail outEtymology 2
From a shortening of bail out, which from above.Verb
(en verb)- With his engine in flames, the pilot had no choice but to bail .
- The Teacher Home Visit Program takes a huge commitment—time, energy, patience, diplomacy. Quite a few schools have tried it and bailed .
Etymology 3
From (etyl) beyl, from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)page 78,
- I reached across beneath the cow to attach a metal bail' to each end of the strap so that the '''bail''' hung about 5 inches below the cow's belly.While stroking and talking to the cow, I reached under and suspended the machine on the ' bail beneath the cow, with its four suction cups dangling to one side.
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- More recently, the fixed bail , sometimes called the ‘milking parlour’, with either covered or open yards, has had a certain vogue and some very enthusiastic claims have been made for this method of housing.
page 191,
- Ten men thus sufficed for the milking of three hundred cows in five bails , instead of the thirty men who would normally have been employed by conventional methods.
page 153,
- But until he had poured enough milk into the vat above the separator, I drove unmilked cows into the bail' where he had previously milked and released one. He moved from one '''bail''' to the other to milk the next one I had readied. I drove each cow into the empty ' bail , chained her in, roped the outer hind leg then washed and massaged the udder and teats.
Etymology 4
From (etyl) baillier.Verb
(en verb)- The transition over the rooftop would have been quicker if Sellers had not been bailed up by a particularly hostile spiritual presence speaking Swedish.