tall
/tɔl/ adjective A1- Having great vertical extent (usually reckoned from the bottom of the feet to the very top of the head) when standing. (For instance, somebody with a height of over 6 feet would generally be deemed tall.) · Being tall is an advantage in basketball.· Ostriches are the tallest living birds.
- Having its top a long way up; having a great vertical (and often greater than horizontal) extent. · Tall trees, at least about 30m high.
- Smaller than grande, usually 8 ounces (~ 230 ml).
- Hard to believe, such as a tall story or a tall tale.
Comparative taller · Superlative tallest
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Taller and stronger,
Where, if I were not so tall,
Then it got down off the mushroom, and crawled away in the grass, merely remarking as it went, “One side will make you grow taller, and the other side will make you grow shorter.”
After a while she remembered that she still held the pieces of mushroom in her hands, and she set to work very carefully, nibbling first at one and then at the other, and growing sometimes taller and sometimes shorter, until she had succeeded in bringing herself down to her usual height.
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