| 词汇 | hailstone |
| 释义 | hailstone noun[ C ] uk /ˈheɪl.stəʊn/ us /ˈheɪl.stoʊn/ a small, hard ball of ice that falls from the sky like rain冰雹，雹子 Gregory_DUBUS/iStock/Getty Images Plus/GettyImages Precipitation: snow & ice anti-icing avalanche be snowed inidiom be snowed upidiom boilerplate drifting glacier hailstorm iceberg icy permafrost precipitation sleet slushy snow day snow devil snow line snowdrift snowfall snowflake generation Examples of hailstonehailstone The third area dealt with the autorotating behaviour of non-stabilized airships, re-entry bodies, released nose sections of fuselages, and hailstones of oblate-spheroidal shape. They have positively oozed compassion and high-minded rhetoric, and they have scattered caring soundbites through every speech like golden hailstones, but we have not heard what they would do. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The ferocity of the tropical thunderstorms of the last 36 hours, coupled with the large downpours of hailstones in various areas, have almost converted some districts into disaster areas. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Using the objects such as hen's eggs, peas, and marbles for comparing hailstone sizes is often imprecise, due to their varied dimensions. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Thunderclouds that are capable of producing hailstones are often seen obtaining green coloration. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The hailstone will keep rising in the thunderstorm until its mass can no longer be supported by the updraft. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The storm's updraft, with upwardly directed wind speeds as high as 180 km/h, blow the forming hailstones up the cloud. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The accretion rate of supercooled water droplets onto the hailstone depends on the relative velocities between these water droplets and the hailstone itself. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The hailstones accumulating on the ground can also be hazardous to landing aircraft. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. In the absence of a ruler, hailstone size is often visually estimated by comparing its size to that of known objects, such as coins. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. This means that generally the larger hailstones will form some distance from the stronger updraft where they can pass more time growing. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. When the hailstone moves into an area with a high concentration of water droplets, it captures the latter and acquires a translucent layer. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Accretionary lapilli are like volcanic hailstones that form by the addition of concentric layers of moist ash around a central nucleus. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Other discontinuities include the formation of raindrops, hailstones, and snowflakes. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. But in 2010 both the village and the fields suffered from hailstone damage. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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