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TALL
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A garment size for a tall person
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("tall" is a kind of...):
size (the property resulting from being one of a series of graduated measurements (as of clothing))
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Too improbable to admit of belief
Example:
a tall story
Synonyms:
improbable; marvellous; marvelous; tall
Classified under:
Similar:
incredible; unbelievable (beyond belief or understanding)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Impressively difficult
Example:
a tall order
Classified under:
Similar:
difficult; hard (not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure)
Domain usage:
colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Lofty in style
Example:
he engages in so much tall talk, one never really realizes what he is saying
Synonyms:
grandiloquent; magniloquent; tall
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
rhetorical (given to rhetoric, emphasizing style at the expense of thought)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Great in vertical dimension; high in stature
Example:
tall ships
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
gangling; gangly; lanky; rangy (tall and thin and having long slender limbs)
in height (having a specified height)
leggy; long-legged; long-shanked (having long legs)
leggy; tall-growing ((of plants) having tall spindly stems)
long (of relatively great height)
long-stalked; tall-stalked (of plants having relatively long stalks)
stately; statuesque (of size and dignity suggestive of a statue)
tallish (somewhat tall)
Also:
high ((literal meaning) being at or having a relatively great or specific elevation or upward extension (sometimes used in combinations like 'knee-high'))
big; large (above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent)
Attribute:
height; stature ((of a standing person) the distance from head to foot)
Antonym:
short (low in stature; not tall)
Derivation:
tallness (the property of being taller than average stature)
tallness (the vertical dimension of extension; distance from the base of something to the top)
Context examples:
"You're not grown so very tall, Miss Jane, nor so very stout," continued Mrs. Leaven.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
It is about 50% longer than tall.
(Petit Basset Griffon Vendeen, NCI Thesaurus)
The long axis of a lesion parallels the skin line ('wider-than-tall' or in a horizontal orientation).
(Parallel Lesion, NCI Thesaurus/DICOM)
Boys may be taller than other boys their age, with more fat around the belly.
(Klinefelter's Syndrome, NIH: National Institute of Child Health and Human Development)
Then a man entered who was taller than all others, and looked terrible.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
The Borzoi is a tall dog with a long, thin, narrow head.
(Borzoi, NCI Thesaurus)
An invasive breast adenocarcinoma characterized by the presence of tall columnar neoplastic cells that contain intracytoplasmic mucin.
(Breast Columnar Cell Mucinous Carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)
Such a charming man!—so handsome! so tall!
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
Lady Middleton was not more than six or seven and twenty; her face was handsome, her figure tall and striking, and her address graceful.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
A tall man, thin and pale, with high nose and teeth so white, and eyes that seem to be burning.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
