tallness
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tall
(tôl)adj. tall·er, tall·est
1.
a. Having greater than ordinary height: a tall woman.
b. Having considerable height, especially in relation to width; lofty: tall trees.
2. Having a specified height: a plant three feet tall.
3. Informal Fanciful or exaggerated; boastful: tall tales of heroic exploits.
4. Impressively great or difficult: a tall order to fill.
5. Obsolete Excellent; fine.
adv.
With proud bearing; straight: stand tall.
tall′ish adj.
tall′ness n.
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Tallness
- I’m about as tall as a shotgun and just as noisy —Truman Capote
- I towered over my parents like some big-footed freak of another species, like a cuckoo raised by sparrows —T. Coraghessan Boyle
- Long and tall as a scarecrow —John Yount
- Tall and gaunt as a hangman —Angela Carter
See Also: THINNESS
- Tall as a building —Louise Erdrich
- Tall as a crane —Dame Edith Sitwell
This is part of the opening and closing refrain of Dame Edith’s Aubade, the full stanza reading, “Jane, Jane, tall as a crane, the morning light creaks down again.” In the United States the “Tall as a crane” comparison can be traced back to an Arkansas railroad song in which the simile is used as follows: “He was six feet seven in his stocking feet and taller than any crane.”
- Tall as a stork —Angela Carter
- Tall as a thunderstorm —Miles Gibson
- (He was) tall as a tree in the middle of the night —Wallace Stevens
- (Poppies as) tall as buildings —Arthur A. Cohen
- Tall men are like houses of four stories, wherein commonly the uppermost room is worst furnished —James Howell
- Tower over … like the Washington Monument —James Thurber
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| Noun | 1. |  tallness - the vertical dimension of extension; distance from the base of something to the topdimension - the magnitude of something in a particular direction (especially length or width or height) lowness - the quality of being low; lacking height; "he was suddenly aware of the lowness of the ceiling" |
| 2. | tallness - the property of being taller than average stature shortness - the property of being shorter than average stature |
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Translations
طول
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tallness
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tall
(toːl) adjective1. (of people and thin or narrow objects such as buildings or trees) higher than normal. a tall man/tree.
2. (of people) having a particular height. John is only four feet tall.
ˈtallness nouna tall order
something very difficult to do. Finding somewhere for fifty children to stay tonight is rather a tall order.
a tall story a story which is hard to believe. He is always telling tall stories.
tall is used especially of people, and of other (narrow) upright objects: a tall girl, tree, building .
high is used of objects that are a long way off the ground, or reach a great height: a high shelf, diving-board, mountain, wall .
high is used of objects that are a long way off the ground, or reach a great height: a high shelf, diving-board, mountain, wall .
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