To telephone, to call on the telephone.
To connect a computer to a modem.
To increase the level (of something) by turning a dial, or (figuratively) as if by turning a dial.
To name; to designate; to call.
To signal in order to initiate communication with.
To send or release hail.
Of hail, to fall from the sky.
To pour down in rapid succession.
To call out loudly in order to gain the attention of.
To indicate, from a designated stop or otherwise, to the driver of a public transport vehicle that one wishes to board and travel on the vehicle, usually using hand signals such as waving.
To greet; give salutation to; salute.
An occurrence of this type of precipitation; a hailstorm.
A rapid, intense barrage by a large number of projectiles or other objects.
Balls or pieces of ice falling as precipitation, often in connection with a thunderstorm.