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(possibly nonstandard) Someone or something that is tall.
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(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.
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Being tall is an advantage in basketball.
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(of a building, etc.) Having its top a long way up; having a great vertical (and often greater than horizontal) extent; high.
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(of a story) Hard to believe, such as a tall story or a tall tale.
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(of a cup of coffee) A cup of coffee smaller than grande, usually 8 ounces.
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Obsequious; obedient.
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Seemly; suitable; fitting, becoming, comely; attractive, handsome.
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Bold; brave; courageous; valiant.
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Fine; proper; admirable; great; excellent.
Examples of tall in a Sentence
The two tall peasants had their say.
He looked so tall, standing over her that way.
The tall lad waved his arm.
A tall perfectly formed and decorated Christmas tree stood beside the staircase.
They are tall and well built.
At 5' 8, she was tall, but still had to lift her chin to see his face.
She had reached the hall before she turned and saw the tall man standing in the doorway.
They were simply very tall – all well over six feet.
He made a striking figure, so tall and lean.
The man in the corner was tall with eyes that swirled gold like Damian's had.
This morning she planted her doll and showed me that she expected her to grow as tall as I. You must see that she is very bright, but you have no idea how cunning she is.
He was so tall there was a vast difference in their height.
She took off, noting where she entered the woods, and using a tall Sycamore tree as a trail marker.
She was surprised to recognize the Council members, from tall, thin Opal to the Council members whose names she'd never learned.
You sure you wouldn't settle for tall, dark and handsome?
It was a big horse, tall and bony, with long legs and large knees and feet.
They seemed to be falling right into the middle of a big city which had many tall buildings with glass domes and sharp-pointed spires.
He looked tall and lean in a dark suit.
A little armadillo, the mulita, is the living representative of the antediluvian giants Mylodon, Megatherium, &c. The ostrich-Rhea americana-roams everywhere in the plains; and there are a few specimens of the vulture tribe, a native crow (lean, tall and ruffed), partridges and quails.
He was a tall, rather reddish white man and he had a thick mustache.
Rudolph was a tall man with pale face and prominent nose.
It consists of a group of old-fashioned timber and plaster buildings, a tall belfry, and a diminutive church of white marble, founded in 1190 by King Stephen Nemanya, who himself turned monk and was canonized as St Simeon.
They burrow among tall grass.
A small group of Australian genera closely approach the order Juncaceae in having small crowded flowers with a scarious or membranous perianth; they include Xanthorrhoea (grass-tree or blackboy) and Kingia, arborescent plants with an erect woody stem crowned with a tuft of long stiff narrow leaves, from the centre of which rises a tall dense flower spike or a number of stalked flower-heads; this group has been included in Juncaceae, from which it is doubtfully distinguished only by the absence of the long twisted stigmas which characterize the true rushes.
These tall tenements on both sides of what is now High Street and Canongate are still a prominent characteristic of the Old Town.
In personal appearance he was tall and corpulent, of a dignified presence and extremely powerful physique, with a bald forehead, close-cropped hair and short moustaches.
Monroe was about six feet tall, but, being stoop-shouldered and rather ungainly seemed less; his eyes, a greyish blue, were deep-set and kindly; his face was delicate, naturally refined, and prematurely lined.
Instances of his selected varieties are the tall variety which he hybridized with a dwarf variety, a yellow-seeded variety which he hybridized with a green-seeded variety, and again a smooth-seeded variety which he hybridized with a wrinkle-seeded variety.
They wore coats confined by belts, trousers tucked into soft boots, and hoods or tall pointed caps.
The women had flowing robes, tall pointed caps, and veils descending over most of the figure.
The name (Sp. "tall tree") was derived from a solitary redwood-tree standing in the outskirts of the city.
Much of this region is covered with gamelote, a tall, worthless, grass with sharp stiff blades.
South of the lake is a wide plain, traversed by the Semliki river, which enters the Nyanza through a swamp of tall weeds, chiefly ambach and papyrus.
On tall, roomy, cylindrical glasses they painted portraits of the emperor and electors of Germany, or the imperial eagle bearing on its wings the arms of the states composing the empire.
In the design of a structure such as a tall reservoir dam it is important that the line of thrust in the material should pass inside the core of a section, so that the material should not be in a state of tension anywhere and so liable to open and admit the water.
It is a tall perennial grass-like plant, giving off numerous erect stems 6 to 12 ft.
The tall upper molars have inner columns.
It was in 1857 that Bayard Taylor saw him, and carried away the impression of a man "tall and broad-shouldered as a son of Anak, with hair, beard and eyes of southern darkness."
He was unusually tall, and possessed in advanced years a strange and rather terrifying air of sombre majesty.
Otto was of tall and commanding presence, and although subject to violent bursts of passion, was liberal to his friends and just to his enemies.
In northern Europeans the leg is usually much more than onehalf of the bodys length, but in Japanese the ratio is one-half or even less; so that whereas the Japanese, when seated, looks almost as tall as a European, there may be a great difference between their statures when both are standing.
Though not tall, he had a fine presence and manners, at once genial and courtly.
Higher up, between 3700 and 4200 ft., a tall pine, Pinus Brutia, is characteristic. Between 4200 and 6200 ft.
South, east and west of the city are the gold mines, indicated by tall chimneys, battery houses and the compounds of the labourers.
C. giganieus, the largest and most striking species of the genus, is a native of hot, arid, desert regions of New Mexico, growing there in rocky valleys and on mountain sides, where the tall stems with their erect branches have the appearance of telegraph poles.
On the obverse is generally the king, who, in the earlier coins at any rate, wears a long open coat, knee boots and a tall cap - clearly the costume of a nomad from the north.
His features were firm and clearly cut; his figure was tall and soldierly.
Meleager is represented as a tall, vigorous youth with curly hair, holding a javelin or a boar's head, and accompanied by a dog.
The older amphorae were oval-shaped, such as the vases filled with oil for prizes at the Panathenaic festival, having on one side a figure of Athena, on the other a representation of the contest; the latter were tall and slender, with voluted handles.
The return air from fiery workings is never allowed to approach the furnace, but is carried into the upcast by a special channel, called a dumb drift, some distance above the furnace drift, so as not to come in contact with the products of combustion until they have been cooled below the igniting point of fire-damp. Where the upcast pit is used for drawing coal, it is usual to discharge the smoke and gases through a short lateral drift near the surface into a tall chimney, so as to keep the pit-top as clear as possible for working.