Les dictionnaires
Difficultés anglaises

> hail and hale hail and hale are liable to be confused. They are pronounced alike but have different meanings. Hail refers to frozen rain, as in "get caught in a storm of hail", or to "something coming in great numbers and with force", as in "a hail of bullets". As a verb it means "to fall as hail", as in "It began to hail", or "to come down fast and with force", as in "Bullets hailed down on them". There is another word hail, which is a verb that means "to call to in order to attract attention", as in "He hailed a friend on the other side of the street"; "to acknowledge enthusiastically as in "hail" him as their new leader" and "hail his new painting as a masterpiece"; "to come from", as in "She hails from a small town up north". Hale means "healthy and strong" and is frequently found in the phrase "hale and hearty", as in "he was very ill but he is hale and hearty again". Pour éviter fautes de grammaire, contresens et confusions. The English Usage Dictionary est le parfait complément des dictionnaires bilingues, du dictionnaire de définitions anglaises et du Thesaurus. Ce dictionnaire signale toutes les difficultés que recèle l'usage d'un mot: orthographe, grammaire, prononciation, homonymies, etc. Exemple d'article du dictionnaire English Usage Dictionary