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tallness

WordNet
View of a house among tall trees. A bridge crosses the ditch and in the background, near a forest, are two people with a dog.
View of a house among tall trees. A bridge crosses the ditch and in the background, near a forest, are two people with a dog.
  1. (n) tallness
    the property of being taller than average stature
  2. (n) tallness
    the vertical dimension of extension; distance from the base of something to the top
Illustrations
Forest landscape at winter. In the middle a frozen ditch, left and right tall bare trees. In the distance a few figures near a barge and a horse and carriage.
View of a snowy forest in the afternoon
Tall, slender stoneware vase (Dong-khe-good / Yiangnan Ding), with a cylindrical body, slightly flared upwards, round shoulder and spreading neck with a flat rim. Cream-colored, crackled glaze. Monochromes.
Tall, slender stoneware vase (Dong-khe-good / Yiangnan Ding), with a cylindrical body, slightly flared upwards, round shoulder and spreading neck with a flat rim. Cream-colored, crackled glaze. Monochromes.
The artist Johannes Tavenraat sitting under tall trees while driving in the Klever Reichswald forest. In the foreground is some shot game, a little to the back is a second figure.
The artist Johannes Tavenraat sitting under tall trees while driving in the Klever Reichswald forest. In the foreground is some shot game, a little to the back is a second figure.
Tall, slender stoneware vase (Dong-khe-good / Yiangnan Ding), with a cylindrical body, slightly flared towards the top, round shoulder. Cream-colored, crackled glaze. Neck sawn off and edge sanded. Monochromes.
Tall, slender stoneware vase (Dong-khe-good / Yiangnan Ding), with a cylindrical body, slightly flared towards the top, round shoulder. Cream-colored, crackled glaze. Neck sawn off and edge sanded. Monochromes.
Tall, slender stoneware vase (Dong-khe-good / Yiangnan Ding), with a cylindrical body, slightly flared upwards, round shoulder and spreading neck with a flat rim. Cream-colored, crackled glaze. A chip in the footring. Monochromes.
Tall, slender stoneware vase (Dong-khe-good / Yiangnan Ding), with a cylindrical body, slightly flared upwards, round shoulder and spreading neck with a flat rim. Cream-colored, crackled glaze. A chip in the footring. Monochromes.
Next to a sandy road with tall trees, a man with a dog is standing by a fence. In front of an open gate is a woman with a milk yoke, from which a bucket and a jug hang. In the background a grazing cow and a drinking sheep.
Next to a sandy road with tall trees, a man with a dog is standing by a fence. In front of an open gate is a woman with a milk yoke, from which a bucket and a jug hang. In the background a grazing cow and a drinking sheep.
Tall, egg-shaped porcelain vase with a short, wide neck, covered with a monochrome, slightly crackled red (sang de boeuf) glaze. White glazed inside the footring. Monochromes.
Tall, egg-shaped porcelain vase with a short, wide neck, covered with a monochrome, slightly crackled red (sang de boeuf) glaze. White glazed inside the footring. Monochromes.
Woodland landscape with shepherd's hut under tall trees on the bank of a stream. On the waterfront is a shepherdess with some animals. Pendant to SK-A-2364.
Forest landscape with hut
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
Interesting fact
The largest type of penguin is the Emperor Penguin which can stand to be almost 3.5 feet tall and weigh more than 90 pounds
  1. Tallness
    The quality or state of being tall; height of stature.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Interesting fact
The tallest woman that ever lived was Zeng Jinlian who was 8 feet 2 inches tall of China. Shed died at the age of 17
  1. (n) tallness
    The quality of being tall, in any sense; especially, height.
Quotations
If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
Source Unknown
Gore Vidal
To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds.
Gore Vidal
By depending on the great, The small may rise high. See: the little plant ascending the tall tree Has climbed to the top.
Saskya Pandita
Thomas Carlyle
The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall.
Thomas Carlyle
Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
David Chambless
All men are two meters tall... give or take a meter.
Source Unknown
Idioms

Cut down the tall poppies - (AU) If people cut down the tall poppies, they criticise people who stand out from the crowd.

In the tall cotton - A phrase that expresses good times or times of plenty and wealth as tall cotton means a good crop.

Small dog, tall weeds - This idiom is used to describe someone the speaker does not believe has the ability or resources to handle a task or job.

Stand tall - If you stand tall, you are brave, proud or confident.

Tall drink of water - Someone who is very tall and slender is a tall drink of water. ('A tall glass of water' is also used.)

Tall enough to hunt geese with a rake - (USA) A person who's much taller than a person of average height.

Usage in the news

Deadpan delivery of a delectably over-the-top premise makes this tall-format picture book a virtually guaranteed crowd-pleaser. publishersweekly.com

Did you know that we have special shelves where we put all of the books that are too tall to fit on our regular shelving. arcataeye.com

A long, hard day of work calls for a nice, tall, cold one. tucsonweekly.com

Car Carrier Spins Tall Tale. otrprotrucker.com

Comcast tall in the saddle with Project Cavalry . cedmagazine.com

The ship will be a 5-foot-tall replica. caller.com

"Without enough sleep, we all become tall two-year-olds". radiousa.com

You might be cooking for a large group of people this holiday weekend, and that can be a tall order. abclocal.go.com

It was a little before five last Wednesday evening when the "tall Mormon" walked into Antarctica, a bar in lower Manhattan ("where the drinks are big and the memories are short"). cjr.org

His thin, tall frame is swallowed by camouflage shorts belted around his thighs. laweekly.com

I cut it to about 10 inches tall and planted. fayobserver.com

The annual trek to the woods to practice poor hygiene and tell tall tales — otherwise known as deer camp — begins this week. record-eagle.com

Toxic sites cleanup list a tall order. columbian.com

Both stand tall for Special Olympics. chicagotribune.com

Space, greenery needed — not tall buildings. timesledger.com

Usage in scientific papers

We shall see below that for redundant expansions T is a tall matrix and ˜THT (cid:54)= T ˜TH ( ˜THT and T ˜TH have different dimensions) so that dual frames will not be biorthonormal.
A Short Course on Frame Theory

Next observe that when N > M , the N × M matrix T is a “tall” matrix, and therefore its left-inverse is, in general, not unique.
A Short Course on Frame Theory

The first theorem deals with “tall” matrices and extends the corresponding result from (for uniformly bounded above mean zero random variables with bounded below variances this was shown in ).
Smallest singular value of sparse random matrices

In this section we prove Theorem 1.1, which establishes an estimate on the smallest singular value for “tall” random matrices, meaning matrices whose aspect ratio n/N is bounded above by a small positive constant (independent of n and N ).
Smallest singular value of sparse random matrices

Let also b ∈ M be any tall positive element.
Definable groups as homomorphic images of semilinear and field-definable groups

Usage in literature

She and her husband laughed at the idea of the tall sailor coming to take me away. "Old Jack" by W.H.G. Kingston

The two tall poles, with the upturned baskets, the devil-catchers, rose like flagstaffs from both sides of the door. "The Best Short Stories of 1919" by Various

The Deans were getting to be tall girls, and even Daisy Jasper had taken to growing. "A Little Girl of Long Ago" by Amanda Millie Douglas

These are tall perennial marsh grasses. "A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses" by Rai Bahadur K. Ranga Achariyar

Had Red Feather not seen Tall Bear among the group he would have adopted a course which the presence of that rival prevented. "The Story of Red Feather" by Edward S. (Edward Sylvester) Ellis

One, about eighteen, was tall and well knit, with dark hair and a swarthy, honest face. "The Camp in the Snow" by William Murray Graydon

He was tall and very handsome, a splendid swordsman, and a wit who could hold his own with poets and with statesmen. "Historic Boyhoods" by Rupert Sargent Holland

This one was a grown and tall man, quite as tall as Don Pablo himself, but thinner and more angular in his outlines. "The Forest Exiles" by Mayne Reid

Many of them are more than ten feet long, and a span taller than a tall man. "The Wonders of the Jungle" by Prince Sarath Ghosh

The yard had a tall brick wall around it. "Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Arkansas Narratives, Part 4" by Work Projects Administration

Usage in poetry
Only the lonely creaking hum
Of the cicada's song;
And a broken fence where tall weeds come
With spikëd fingers strong.
"Blue Succory In War Time" by Annie Adams Fields Author object (50)
The haughty sinner have I seen,
Nor fearing man nor God,
Like a tall bay-tree, fair and green,
Spreading his arms abroad.
"Psalm 37 part 3" by Isaac Watts Author object (310)
Some lilies grew by a brook-side,
Tall and white, and cold,
And lifted up to the sunshine
Their great red hearts of gold.
"A Stained Lily" by Madge Morris Wagner
Small were they that the hare-bell's blue
Had helmeted each tiny head;
Save one damsel, who, tall as two,
The Faeries led.
"“The Fairy Rade”" by Madison Julius Cawein Author object (456)
Where, from the eye of day,
The dark and silent river
Pursues through tangled woods a way
O'er which the tall trees quiver;
"Song" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Author object (294)
It was not the bone buckled;
You gave me enough food
To renew myself.
It was the mind's weight
Kept me bent, as I grew tall.
"Sorry" by R S Thomas