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Meaning of tall in English
tall | American Dictionary
tall adjective [-er/-est only] (VERY HIGH)
She’s tall and slim.
The Sears Tower is taller than the Empire State Building.
tall adjective [-er/-est only] (THIS HIGH)
(Definition of tall from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
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The dentary is long and slender and is dorsoventrally tallest at its caudal margin.
Only trees taller than 1 m were included in the survey.
Marble vases average 13 cm in height and 13 cm in diameter; they are typically taller than they are wide.
Blocks of the pie chart clockwise from the bull's-eye represent the percentage of trees where the surrounding canopy is taller than the target tree.
The resulting plots of height vs. dbh were inspected to see if the tallest trees were outliers for each species.
As we lacked the necessary height distributions for such methods at most sites, we simply took the heights of the tallest trees per species, as direct measures of maximum height.
No significant difference was found between the median heights of the tallest seedlings in clumps at nest sites and the tallest labelled seedlings under individual conspecific trees.
The boy removing his shorts to the right of the canvas appears not just bigger or taller than the figure to his left but actually of a different scale.
The tallest in the family, she is a lawyer, previously divorced, and her first appearance is in chapter 25.
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Critics suggested that basketball was becoming uninteresting with taller players dominating.
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The back of the president's chair is two inches taller than those of the cabinet secretaries.
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He is described as slightly taller than previously known, and heavier, with hair still remarkably dark for his age.
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He is one of the tallest batsman ever to play test cricket and stands at 6 feet 5 inches.
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Also, taller residential buildings gave rise to taller office buildings.
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Since a cuboctahedron has a circumradius divided by edge length equal to one, the triangles must be taller than equilateral to create a positive height.
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Translations of tall
in Chinese (Traditional)
高的，高大的, 有…高的…
in Chinese (Simplified)
高的，高大的, 有…高的…
in Spanish
alto, alto/ta [masculine-feminine, singular]…
in Portuguese
alto, alto/-ta, de altura…
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उंच / सरासरी उंचीपेक्षा अधिक किंवा विशिष्ट उंची…
uzun, uzun boylu, ...uzunluğunda…
de grande taille, haut/-e, qui mesure…
சராசரி உயரத்தை விட, அல்லது ஒரு குறிப்பிட்ட உயரத்தின்…
високий, такий, що має певний ріст…
লম্বা, গড় উচ্চতার বেশি বা একটি নির্দিষ্ট উচ্চতার…
สูงมาก (ของคน, สัตว์, สิ่งของหรืออื่น ๆ)…
cao, có chiều cao đặc biệt…
wysoki, ≈ mieć ileś wzrostu, … wzrostu…
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