She saw a hailstone the size of a golfball.
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Hailstone
//ˈheɪlstoʊn//
Synonyms for "hailstone" (1 found)
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60 translations across 43 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- σφενδόνη noun (single ball of hail)
Assamese
1 entries- শিল বৰষুণ noun (single ball of hail)
Belarusian
1 entries- гра́дзіна noun (single ball of hail)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 冰雹 noun (single ball of hail)
- 雹子 noun (single ball of hail)
Cornish
1 entries- keseren noun (single ball of hail)
Czech
1 entries- kroupa noun (single ball of hail)
Dutch
1 entries- hagelsteen noun (single ball of hail)
Dzongkha
1 entries- སེརཝ noun (single ball of hail)
Esperanto
1 entries- hajlero noun (single ball of hail)
Finnish
1 entries- rae noun (single ball of hail)
French
1 entries- grêlon noun (single ball of hail)
Galician
4 entries- escarabán noun (single ball of hail)
- garaullo noun (single ball of hail)
- gresillo noun (single ball of hail)
- pedrazo noun (single ball of hail)
German
1 entries- Hagelkorn noun (single ball of hail)
Hindi
1 entries- ओला noun (single ball of hail)
Hungarian
1 entries- jégszem noun (single ball of hail)
Icelandic
1 entries- hagl noun (single ball of hail)
Ido
1 entries- greluno noun (single ball of hail)
Japanese
1 entries- 雹 noun (single ball of hail)
Kankanaey
1 entries- dalalo noun (single ball of hail)
Korean
1 entries- 우박 noun (single ball of hail)
Lithuanian
1 entries- krušos gabalėlis noun (single ball of hail)
Māori
1 entries- whatu noun (single ball of hail)
Norman
1 entries- brîn d'grile noun (single ball of hail)
Nupe
2 entries- tákùn Sòkó noun (single ball of hail)
- tákùn yán ele noun (single ball of hail)
Polish
3 entries- gradowina noun (single ball of hail)
- gradzina noun (single ball of hail)
- kulka gradu noun (single ball of hail)
Portuguese
1 entries- granizo noun (single ball of hail)
Romanian
1 entries- grindină noun (single ball of hail)
Russian
1 entries- гра́дина noun (single ball of hail)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- clach-mheallain noun (single ball of hail)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- krúpa noun (single ball of hail)
- кру́па noun (single ball of hail)
Sicilian
2 entries- cugghiànnulu noun (single ball of hail)
- grànnula noun (single ball of hail)
Slovak
1 entries- krúpa noun (single ball of hail)
Spanish
4 entries- cascarrina noun (single ball of hail)
- granizo noun (single ball of hail)
- pedrisco noun (single ball of hail)
- pedrisquero noun (single ball of hail)
Swedish
1 entries- hagelkorn noun (single ball of hail)
Tamil
2 entries- ஆலங்கட்டி noun (single ball of hail)
- கல்மாரி noun (single ball of hail)
Taos
1 entries- į̀ękǫ́na noun (single ball of hail)
Telugu
1 entries- కరక noun (single ball of hail)
Thai
1 entries- ลูกเห็บ noun (single ball of hail)
Turkish
1 entries- dolu tanesi noun (single ball of hail)
Ukrainian
1 entries- гради́на noun (single ball of hail)
Volapük
1 entries- grälaston noun (single ball of hail)
Welsh
2 entries- cenllysgen noun (single ball of hail)
- ceseiren noun (single ball of hail)
Yoruba
1 entries- òkúta yìnyín noun (single ball of hail)
Sample sentences
3 total sentences available.
Tom was hit by a huge hailstone.
Source: tatoeba (9522211)
Hailstones are formed when raindrops are carried upward by thunderstorm updrafts into extremely cold areas of the atmosphere and freeze. Hailstones then grow by colliding with liquid water drops that freeze onto the hailstone’s surface. If the water freezes instantaneously when colliding with the hailstone, cloudy ice will form as air bubbles will be trapped in the newly formed ice. However, if the water freezes slowly, the air bubbles can escape and the new ice will be clear. The hail falls when the thunderstorm’s updraft can no longer support the weight of the hailstone, which can occur if the stone becomes large enough or the updraft weakens.
Source: tatoeba (12197200)
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