Tallness

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. Archaic Excellent; fine.

adv.

With proud bearing; straight: stand tall.

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[Middle English, brave, quick, from Old English getæl, swift; see del-² in Indo-European roots.]

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tallish adj.

tallness n.

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Tallness 

1. I’m about as tall as a shotgun and just as noisy —Truman Capote
2. I towered over my parents like some big-footed freak of another species, like a cuckoo raised by sparrows —T. Coraghessan Boyle
3. Long and tall as a scarecrow —John Yount
4. Tall and gaunt as a hangman —Angela Carter

   See Also: THINNESS

5. Tall as a building —Louise Erdrich
6. 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.”

7. Tall as a stork —Angela Carter
8. Tall as a thunderstorm —Miles Gibson
9. (He was) tall as a tree in the middle of the night —Wallace Stevens
10. (Poppies as) tall as buildings —Arthur A. Cohen
11. Tall men are like houses of four stories, wherein commonly the uppermost room is worst furnished —James Howell
12. Tower over … like the Washington Monument —James Thurber

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	tallness - the vertical dimension of extension; distance from the base of something to the top height dimension - the magnitude of something in a particular direction (especially length or width or height) loftiness, highness - the quality of being high or lofty 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 stature, height - (of a standing person) the distance from head to foot shortness - the property of being shorter than average stature

Translations

tallness [ˈtɔːlnɪs] N → altura f

tallness

n

(of person) → Größe f, → Länge f (inf)

(of building, tree, grass) → Höhe f; (of mast also) → Länge f

tallness [ˈtɔːlnɪs] n → altezza