Tails vs Hails - What's the difference?
tails | hails |
(slang) Short for tailcoat.
* So I'm putting on my top hat, tying on my white tie, brushing off my tails.'' - Chorus from ''Top Hat, White Tie and Tails (Irving Berlin)
The side of a coin that doesn't bear the picture of the head of state or similar
(mining) tailings; waste
(tail)
(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
As verbs the difference between tails and hails
is that tails is third-person singular of tail while hails is third-person singular of hail.As a noun tails
is plural of lang=en.tails
English
Noun
(head)- Tails , I win.
Antonyms
* (side of coin ): headsVerb
(head)Anagrams
*hails
English
Verb
(head)hail
English
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.