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# tall

«tall» in Mova's school dictionary: **high from the bottom to the top: a giraffe is very tall** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (tall, taller, tallest)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Tall means high from the bottom to the top: a giraffe is very tall. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tall/#m1)

2) Tall is used to give height: he is 150 cm tall. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tall/#m2)

3) A tall story (tall tale) is one that is hard to believe. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tall/#m3)

4) In informal speech, "tall" can be short for "at all", as in "not saying anything at all". [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tall/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

Maths: height measures and comparisons (how tall, taller than, the tallest); ordering by height; bar graphs of heights. Science: the tallest animals, trees and buildings. Everyday: «stand tall» (be proud and brave).

### examples

- The tree is 12 meters tall. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tall/#x1)
- Tom is 5 cm taller than Ben. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tall/#x2)
- Who is the tallest? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tall/#x3)
- How tall is the tower? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tall/#x4)
- Giraffes are the tallest animals on Earth. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tall/#x5)
- Line up from shortest to tallest. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tall/#x6)
- Grandpa told a tall story about a fish as big as a boat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tall/#x7)
- Sunflowers can grow taller than a man. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tall/#x8)

### note

Comparative taller, superlative tallest. «Taller than» compares heights: add the difference to get the taller one. Trap: «Ben is 5 cm shorter than Tom» means subtract from Tom, even though no «taller» appears. Use «tall» for people, trees and buildings; «high» for mountains and things far above the ground.

### In the corpora

- [The Mona Lisa is about 77 centimetres tall and 53 centimetres wide; Guernica is almost 8 metres wide.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/42-olympiad-picture-puzzles/12/)
- [Long legs let cranes wade in marshes and tall grass, and a long bill probes the mud for food.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/136-kung-fu-panda-real-tigers-and-cranes/13/)
- [Buttress roots spread out like walls around many rainforest trees and hold the tall tree up in thin soil.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/157-the-amazon-forest-floor/14/)
- [Wheat is a tall grass whose seeds, the grains, are ground into flour.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/286-from-field-to-plate-wheat-flour-and-bread/1/)
- [People in the Netherlands grew about 20 centimetres taller on average over about 150 years, mostly thanks to better food and health.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/361-growing-up-growth-spurts-height-voices-and-getting-stronger/10/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «tall» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tall/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.