tall
IPA: tˈɔɫ
noun
- (possibly nonstandard) Someone or something that is tall.
- A clothing size for taller people.
- A tall serving of a drink, especially one from Starbucks, which contains 12 ounces.
adjective
- (of a person) Having a vertical extent greater than the average. For example, somebody with a height of over 6 feet would generally be considered to be tall.
- (of a building, etc.) Having its top a long way up; having a great vertical (and often greater than horizontal) extent; high.
- (of a story) Hard to believe, such as a tall story or a tall tale.
- (chiefly US, of a cup of coffee) Smaller than grande, usually 8 ounces (~ 230 ml).
- (obsolete) Obsequious; obedient.
- (obsolete) Seemly; suitable; fitting, becoming, comely; attractive, handsome.
- (obsolete) Bold; brave; courageous; valiant.
- (archaic) Fine; proper; admirable; great; excellent.
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Examples of "tall" in Sentences
- He was tall and gangly.
- The height of the pony is not that tall.
- Did he grow the tall dendroid back there
- In these conditions, trees grow tall and thrive.
- It is the building with the tall antenna at the top.
- A tall thin sapling grows in the garden near my house.
- Discussion of the location of tall buildings is unproductive.
- Where is the spring and the harvest and the tall corn growing
- Gary Firkins has managed to put it in -- tall, impossibly green corn.
- This tall Yazagaku student is the epitome of high class and femininity.
- When they are damaged, very tall buildings occasionally have to be flattened.
- Those students prominence Alabamas failure to sense preparation in tall school.
- * Antitrinitarians; the peasantry are often extremely fond of hard and long words, which they call tall English.
- "Please, Marse Herbert and Miss Cap, don't you tell ole marse nuffin 'tall 'bout my loosin' sight of you!" pleaded Wool.
- They can additionally be built in tall levels to illustrate creation them preferred for those gardeners with singular mobility.
- Tall perennials Joe Pye weed and what we call the tall sunflower, rudbeckia lanciniata are joined by a single volunteer Datura metal.
- You equate short with women (and minorities) and tall with men, and in the context of basketball – where being tall is in effect an intrinsic “talent”.
- "It's what I call a tall order, Burton," exclaimed Tom Ellison, who, with the Doctor, had been listening to the police officer's plan to raid the Cave of Hydas.