Tall

Definition: Tall

Tall

Adjective

1. Great in vertical dimension; high in stature; "tall people"; "tall buildings"; "tall trees"; "tall ships".

2. Lofty in style; "he engages in so much tall talk, one never really realizes what he is saying".

3. (informal) impressively difficult; "a tall order".

4. Too improbable to admit of belief; "a tall story".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "tall" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Note: Tall \Tall\, adjective. [Comparative Taller; superlative Tallest.]. (references)

Computing

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Synonyms: Tall

Boasting

Noun: boasting; Verb: boast, vaunt, crake; pretense, pretensions; puff, puffery; flourish, fanfaronade; gasconade; blague, bluff, gas; highfalutin, highfaluting; hot air, spread-eagleism; brag, braggardism; bravado, bunkum, buncombe; jactancy; bounce; venditation, vaporing, rodomontade, bombast, fine talking, tall talk, magniloquence, teratology, heroics; Chauvinism; exaggeration.

Height

Tall as a maypole, tall as a poplar, tall as a steeple, lanky; (thin).

Adjective: high, elevated, eminent, exalted, lofty, tall; gigantic; (big); Patagonian; towering, beetling, soaring, hanging; elevated; upper; highest; (topmost); high reaching,

Crosswords: Tall

Albanian (banter, deride, fleer, jeer, make fun of, mock, ridicule, scoff, taunt), Norwegian (figure, numerals), Swedish (fir, fir tree, pine, pine wood, pine-tree).

Walk with us, and you walk tall. (Say Anything; writing credit: Cameron Crowe.)

Now answer my question or you'll be standing tall before the man. (Full Metal Jacket; writing credit: Gustav Hasford; Michael Herr)

I'm tall, dark and handsome, and you're third world ugly (Rush Hour 2; writing credit: Jeff Nathanson)

A white rabbit, six feet tall. (Harvey; writing credit: Mary Chase;)

You're not very tall are you (The Big Sleep; writing credit: William Faulkner, Leigh Brackett, and Jules Furthman. Based on the novel by Raymond Chandler.)

I was a little too tall (Night Moves; performing artist: BOB SEGER; writing credit: Bob Seger)

Then suddenly you're eight feet tall (That's The Way Love Is; performing artist: Bobby Darin)

I been everywhere, still I'm standing tall (Wanted Dead or Alive; performing artist: Bon Jovi)

You stood by me and I stood tall (Because you loved me; performing artist: Celine Dion)

So I think I'll go and fix myself a tall one. (Teen Angst (What The World Needs Now); performing artist: Cracker)

Has Leadership Qualities: Is tall or has a loud voice. (references; author: unknown)

Ten tame tadpoles tucked tightly together in a thin tall tin. (references; author: unknown)

Tiny Timmy trims the tall tree with tinsel. (references; author: unknown)

Walking Tall (1973)

He Rides Tall (1964)

Tall in the Trap (1962)

The Long and the Short and the Tall (1960)

Walk Tall (1960)

LONG TALL GLASSES (I CAN DANCE)  (performing artist: Leo Sayer )

LONG TALL SALLY  (performing artist: Little Richard )

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References

• The World Market for Tall Oil: A 2004 Global Trade Perspective (reference)

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Books

• You Bet Your Tomatoes: Fun Facts, Tall Tales, and a Handful of Useful Gardening Tips (reference)

• Home Tree Home: Principles of Treehouse Construction and Other Tall Tales (reference)

• John Willingham's World Champion Bar-B-Q: Over 150 Recipes and Tall Tales for Authentic, Braggin' Rights, Real Southern Bar-B-Q and All the Fixin's (reference)

• Sarah, Plain and Tall (reference)

• Short & Tall Tales: Moose County Legends Collected by James Mackintosh Qwilleran (reference)

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Periodicals

• Traditional Boats & Tall Ships (reference)

• Tall Poppies (reference)

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Theater & Movies

• The Tall Guy (reference)

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Music

• Tall Blonde Helicopter (reference)

• Ten Feet Tall & Bulletproof (reference)

• Long Tall Tales and Highway Adventures of Trailer Hitch (reference)

• Day the Tall Ships Came (reference)

• A Tall Tale Storyline (reference)

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High Tech

• 12 Slot Media Converter Rack Tall for Use with Tall Convert (reference)

• 1PK DVD-R General 4.7GB 2X Branded Video Tall Box (reference)

• Universal Monitor Stand Black6in Tall Holds 100lbs (reference)

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Consumer Goods

• L.R. Nelson 1912 72" Tall Trellis Sprinkler (reference)

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(3) color slides show a strawberry milk shake in a tall sundae type glass with a straw and garnished with a strawberry. Credit: Renee Comet (photographer).

A hot pink plate on a light pink-checkered tablecloth. On the plate is a tall, conical glass of a yellow liquid, garnished with a lemon slice, some purple grapes and a straw. In front of the glass is a long stirring spoon. Behind it are a whole pineapple and a green bowl with 2 whole lemons. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

Building a 100-foot tall hydrographic signal. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

First crew of NOAA Ship WHITING Chief Boatswain "Pappy Haynes" tall man standing in middle. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

"Lava trees" formed when lava cools around tree trunks are quite tall. Credit: America's Coastlines.

A muskrat hut in a middle Patuxent river marsh. Observed at a very low tide. Early in the year so marsh grasses aren't too tall yet. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Observing party on a barrier island. Tall hydro signal built to increase offshore range for visual control. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

The Statue of Liberty, New York Harbor, with Navy helicopter during 1976 Bicentennial Tall Ship celebration. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Waquoit Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. Tall sea blite - Suaeda linearis. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR).

NSSL researchers mounted weather instruments on this very tall TV tower. This was the WKY-TV, Oklahoma City, 1602' tower. This tower was used during the 1970's and 1980's. Credit: National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL).

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He felt that it was tall and stately when it came beside him, and that its mysterious presence filled him with a solemn dread

Tall. Tall and absurdly thin

The young woman was tall, with a figure of perfect elegance on a large scale

A spruce little bird, probably in love, was singing desperately in a tall tree

While he smoked the brim of his tall hat and the bowl of his pipe were just visible beyond the jambs of the outhouse door

Spoke like a tall man that respects thy reputation

The coat was too big, the trousers too short, for he was a tall man.

He appeared as tall as an ordinary spire steeple, and took about ten yards at every stride, as near as I could guess

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Health

The cotton rat prefers overgrown areas with shrubs and tall grasses. (references)

XXY boys may also be tall and thin and somewhat passive and shy. Again, however, there are no guarantees. (references)

Travel in the country, especially on dry, windy days or while crops are being harvested, should be avoided as should walks through tall vegetation. (references)

Economic History

Ireland

The Iron Age arrived abruptly in the fourth century BC with the invasion of the Celts, a tall, energetic people who had spread across Europe and Great Britain in the preceding centuries. (references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Tall

Expressions using "tall": a tall order ♦ crude tall oil ♦ grow tall ♦ how tall are you? ♦ it's a tall order ♦ refined tall oil ♦ small people and tall people ♦ talk tall ♦ tall and skinny ♦ tall and thin ♦ tall bellflower ♦ tall bilberry ♦ tall boy ♦ tall building ♦ tall buttercup ♦ tall card ♦ tall crowfoot ♦ tall cupboard ♦ tall cupflower ♦ tall field buttercup ♦ tall format ♦ tall gallberry holly ♦ tall goldenrod ♦ tall hat ♦ tall hulking ♦ tall mallow ♦ tall man ♦ tall meadow grass ♦ tall oat grass ♦ tall oil ♦ tall oil alkyd ♦ tall oil fatty acid ♦ tall oil pitch ♦ tall oil rosin ♦ tall oil soap ♦ tall order ♦ tall person ♦ tall storey ♦ tall stories ♦ tall story ♦ tall sunflower ♦ tall tale ♦ tall talk ♦ Tall Timbers ♦ tall unit ♦ tall white violet ♦ tell smb. tall stories ♦ that's a tall order ♦ that's a tall order! ♦ walk tall ♦ what a tall man!. Additional references.

Beginning with "tall": tall-boy, tall-chimney, tall-chimneyed, tall-female, tall-growing, tall-herb, tall-herbs, tall-light, tall-masted, tall-oil, tall-pyramid, tall-short, tall-stack, tall-standing, tall-stemmed, tall-thinness.

Ending with "tall": bang-tall, bob-tall, bulge-tall, extra-tall, poplar-tall, Racket-tall, seven-feet-tall, seven-foot-tall, six-foot-tall, six-inch-tall.

Albanian

lartë (high, lofty), i gjatë (full length, high in stature, lengthy, long, sustained). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فارع الطول (lofty, towering), ‏مستبعد حدوثه, ‏مشى مرفوع الراس, ‏غير قابل للتصديق (implausible), ‏غريب (absurd, alien, anomalous, antic, bizarre, eerie, eery, exotic, extraneous, fanciful, foreign, freakish, funny, grotesque, intruder, ludicrous, new, odd, outlandish, outsider, peculiar, potty, quaint, queer, rum, senseless, singular, strange, stranger, unaccustomed, uncanny, uncouth, unearthly, unfamiliar, unnatural, whimsical), ‏عجيب (amazement, bizarre, fanciful, freakish, funny, marvellous, marvelous, odd, odd jobs, peculiar, phenomenal, portentous, prestigious, puzzling, rats, rum, staring, stupendous, temperamental, weird, wonder, wonderful, wondrous), ‏عالي (hard to reach, imposing, monstrous, standard, supreme), ‏طنان (bombastic, fustian, grandiloquent, orotund, pompous, puffy, resonant, rotund, runic, sonorous, sounding, stilted, tumid, turgid, windy), ‏طويل (epic, extended, far, lengthy, lingering, long, long-drawn, prolonged, protracted), ‏ضخم (astronomic, astronomical, awful, big, bulking, bulky, bull, colossal, colossus, considerable, distend, elephantine, enormous, exaggerate, extend, exuberant, fat, gargantuan, ghastly, giant, gigantic, goodly, grand, great, handsome, heavy, hefty, heroic, huge, hulking, husky, immense, intense, jumbo, large, leviathan, liberal, mammoth, mass, massive, mighty, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, outsize, oversize, palatial, phenomenal, powerful, prodigious, proud, round, royal, sizable, smart, strapping, strong, stupendous, sublime, swingeing, tidy, titan, titanic, towering, tremendous, vast, voluminous, whacking, whopping), ‏شاهق (airy, alpine, eminent, steep, towering). (various references)

Basque

handi (great). (various references)

Bulgarian 

със самохвалство, невероятен (anecdotal, fabulous, far fetched, improbable, incredible, marvellous, marvelous, unbelievable, unlikely, unthinkable), преувеличен (exaggerated, flaming, high-colored, high-coloured, steep, strained), изпълнен със самохвалство (glorying). (various references)

Catalan

alt (high, lofty, loud). (various references)

Chinese 

高 (high). (various references)

Czech

vysoký (big, exalted, floaty, high, high pitched, large, lofty). (various references)

Danish

høj (high, lofty, loud). (various references)

Dutch

verheven (elevated, grand, grandiose, high, lofty, magnificent, majestic, superb), hoog (high, lofty). (various references)

Esperanto

altstatura (lanky, of high stature), altkreska, alta (high, lofty). (various references)

Faeroese

høgur (high, lofty). (various references)

Farsi 

قدبلند, گزاف (Bombastic, Costly, Exorbitant, Extortionary, Extravagant, High, Immense, Rodomontade, Steep, Stupendous, Unconscionable, Vainglory), اغراق امیز (Sententious), ادم یاچیزبلندقد, شاق (Astringent, Burdensome, Onerous, Severe, Stark), بلندقد, بلندبالا, بلند (Aloud, Eminent, Grandiose, High, Lofty, Skyscraper, Sonorous, Upland, Vociferous, Willowy). (various references)

Finnish

korkea (elevated, exalted, high, lofty). (various references)

French

haut (taunt). (various references)

German

groß (big, bigly, capital, capitalized, considerable, copious, full, grand, great, grievous, keen, large, large scale, large-capacity, largely, lengthy, long, major, near, sharp, sizable, sizably, upper case, wide), lang (great, large, late, lengthy, lingering, long, vacant), hoch (advanced, big, cheer, dear, deeply, distinguished, elevated, exalted, extensive, great, heavily, heavy, high, high pitched, high ranking, highly, important, large, loftily, lofty, long, noble, quality, severe, short, superior, to the power of, trebly, up). (various references)

Greek 

υψηλόσ (high, lofty, slab-sided, sublime, towering), ψηλόσ, ψηλός (high, lofty). (various references)

Hawaiian

lartë (high, lofty). (various references)

Hebrew 

מופרז (exaggerated, excessive, extravagant, immoderate, inordinate, outre, undue), מוגזם (a bit thick, exaggerated, fulsome, immoderate, inordinate), תמיר (erect, slender, svelte, upright, upstanding, willowy), גבוה (exalted, high, lofty), גבה קומה, רם (eminent, high, lofty, supreme, towering). (various references)

Hungarian

magas (alto, eminent, exalted, high, high voice, lofty, piping, strapping, taunt, taut, third programme, to ride the high horse). (various references)

Icelandic

hár (hair, high, lofty). (various references)

Indonesian

tinggi (aloft, height, lofty), alang-alang (coarse grass). (various references)

Irish

ard (high, lofty). (various references)

Italian

alto (deep, height, high, lofty, loud, noble, overhead, up, wide), grande (adult, big, grand, great, grown up, heavy, heavyset, high, large, major, strong, wide), elevato (elevated, high, highly, lofty, sharp, shrill, sublime). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

高い (expensive, high). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

たかい (death, expensive, high, the next world), たけなが, せがたかい, せいたか. (various references)

Korean 

키 큰. (various references)

Malay

tinggi. (various references)

Manx

mooar (big, bold, bold promintary, capacious, chief, commodious, difficult, extensive, extravagant, familiar, grand, great, grievous, heavy, hit off, hobnob, intense, intimate, loose-fitting, major, marked, powerful), liauyr (big, drawn out, far-reaching, flowing of hair, lengthy, long, long-distance, prolix, sustained, vermiform, wordy), ard (big, compass point, direction, district, fell, height, high, high place, incline, loud, pole, region, towering). (various references)

Norwegian

høy (hay, high, lofty, loud). (various references)

Occitan

grand (great), bèl (beautiful, great). (various references)

Papiamen

haltu (high, lofty), halto (high, lofty), altu (high, lofty). (various references)

Pig Latin

alltay.(various references)

Polish

wysoki (high, lofty). (various references)

Portuguese

alto (aloud, altisonant, bump, elevated, great, height, high, high-flown, hightoned, lofty, loud, loudly, rangy, screaming, screamy, stand-up, stop, top). (various references)

Romanian

zvelt (rakish, slender, slim, stalky, supple), subţire (choice, cunning, delicate, filmy, fine, fine-drawn, flimsy, hour-glass, jejune, papery, reedy, refined, shrewd, shrill, skinny, slender, slight, slim, sly, small, spidery, squeamish, stalky, subtle, tenuous, thin, thinly, weak, wiry), mare (acred, adult, ample, big, boundless, brine, broad, bulky, deep, dense, enormous, famous, fat, flux, foam, gorgeous, grand, grandiose, great, gross, hard, heavy, high, howling, huge, hulking, illustrious, immense, important, keen, king size, large, large scale, long, loose, major, man-sized, massy, mighty, open, pond, ponderous, pretty, renowned, rich, roomy, sea, sensible, severe, spacious, stupendous, thick, thundering, vast, violent, voluminous, wide), fantastic (arabesque, fabled, fabulous, fanciful, fantastic, fantastical, fantasticalness, freakish, romantic, tremendous, whimsical), exagerat (exaggerated, exaggerative, hyperbolic, inordinate, overmuch, profuse, regardless, steep, swollen, theatrical, thick, undue), de staturã mare, de necrezut (fabulous, inconceivable, incredible, marvellous, unbelievable, unimaginable), înalt (deep, eminent, grand, high, sublime, towering, upper). (various references)

Russian 

высокий (big, high, high pitched, high-flown, high-pitched, lengthy, lofty, sky high, soaring). (various references)

Scottish

mór (big, great, important, large, of high, rendered in Eng. `Sarah' and `Marion';), àrd (eminence, eminent, great, high, lofty, loud; n. a height). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

visok (high, strapping), velik (big, grand, jumbo), vešt (able, accomplished, adept, adroit, artful, clever, cunning, daedal, deft, dexterous, habile, handy, knacky, knowing, proficient, sciential, skilled, skillful, slick, subtle), stasit (shapely). (various references)

Spanish

alto (aloud, alto, contralto, contralto voice, halt, high, lofty, long, loud, standstill, stop, upper, upward). (various references)

Sranan

ey (high, lofty). (various references)

Swedish

storväxt, reslig (towering), lång (far, great, lengthy, long, longish), högväxt, hög (clamp, elevated, exalted, heap, high, high pitched, hillock, huddle, lofty, loud, mound, pile). (various references)

Tagalog

mataás (high, lofty). (various references)

Thai

เหลือเชื่อ (fabulous), ด้วยท่าทีสง่างาม, ขี้คุย (big), มากเกินไป (exorbitant, lavish). (various references)

Turkish

yüksek (above, acro-, buoyant, Clarion, elevated, exalted, high, highrise, hyper-, lofty, loud, over, penetrating, penetrative, spheric, stately, superior). (various references)

Turkmen 

uzyn (long, protracted), яokary (above, on top), belent (big, majestic). (various references)

Ukrainian

високий (big, elevated, high, high-flown, long, overhead, towering), заввишки, перебільшений (colored, coloured, exaggerated, exaggerative, hyperbolic, hyperbolical, outre, overdone, superlative), довгий (ample, gaunt, great, long, side). (various references)

Vietnamese 

ngoa, khoe khoang (boast, flauntingly, flaunty, ostentatious, pretentious, rodomontade, swanky, vaunting), khoác lác (boastful, grandiloquent, rodomontade, vaunting), khó tin, không thật (make-believe). (various references)

Welsh

tal (high, lofty). (various references)

altus, arduus, Arrhenatherum elatius, ascelpias exaltata, C.Presl, celsus, excelsa, excelsae, excelsam, excelsas, excelsi, excelsior, excelsiorem, excelsis, excelsisque, excelsius, excelso, excelsorum, excelsos, excelsum, excelsus, excelsusque, Festuca arundinacea Schreb., grande, grandem, grandes, grandi, grandia, grandis, granditer, magna, magnae, magnam, magnamque, magnaque, magnarum, magnarumque, magnas, magne, magni, magnis, magno, magnorum, magnos, magnum, magnus, maior, maiora, maiore, maiorem, maiores, maioresque, maiori, maioribus, maioris, maiorque, maiorum, maius, maxima, maximam, maximas, maxime, maximeque, maximi, maximis, maximo, maximum, maximus, Melilotus altissimus Thuill., praegrandes, procerae, procerior, procerus, prolixae, prolixior, prolixius, Ranunculus acer, Ranunculus acris, Sisymbrium altissimum L., Sisymbrium pannonicum Jacq.. (various references)

berezaite. (various references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "tall": tallage, tallaged, tallages, tallaging, tallaisim, tallboy, tallboys, taller, tallest, tallied, tallier, talliers, tallies, tallis, tallises, tallish, tallisim, tallit, tallith, tallithes, tallithim, talliths, tallitim, tallitoth, tallness, tallnesses, tallol, tallols, tallow, tallowed, tallowing, tallows, tallowy, tally, tallyho, tallyhoed, tallyhoing, tallyhos, tallying, tallyman, tallymen. (additional references)

Words ending with "tall": bookstall, forestall, headstall, install, reinstall, stall. (additional references)

Words containing "tall": accidentally, acropetally, anecdotally, antenatally, antidotally, basipetally, bimetallic, bimetallics, bimetallism, bimetallisms, bimetallist, bimetallistic, bimetallists, biparentally, bookstalls, brutally, capitally, centripetally, coincidentally, coitally, congenitally, continentally, contrapuntally, cryptocrystalline, crystalline, crystallinities, crystallinity, crystallise, crystallised, crystallises, crystallising, crystallite, crystallites, crystallizable, crystallization, crystallizations, crystallize, crystallized, crystallizer, crystallizers, crystallizes, crystallizing, crystallographer, crystallographers, crystallographic, crystallographically, crystallographies, crystallography, crystalloid, crystalloidal, crystalloids. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Tall" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: atl, atpl, Ctal, tagl, tal, tala, tald, talg, talle, talli, tallo, talls, talm, talo, talq, talt, talu, talz, tarl, tefl, tel, tella, telli, tello, tellt, telo, thal, thall, Tillo, Tiql, tl, Tlali, tlap, Tollo, tsal, tual, Twala, tyl, tyll. (additional references)

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