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# tall

adjective (tall, taller, tallest)

«tall» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Tall means high from the bottom to the top: a giraffe is very tall. [tree →](https://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://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://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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tall/#m4)

### 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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tall/#x1)
- Tom is 5 cm taller than Ben. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tall/#x2)
- Who is the tallest? [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tall/#x3)
- How tall is the tower? [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tall/#x4)
- Giraffes are the tallest animals on Earth. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tall/#x5)
- Line up from shortest to tallest. [tree →](https://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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tall/#x7)
- Sunflowers can grow taller than a man. [tree →](https://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 Jewish tradition

It describes giant peoples like the Anakim, whose size frightened the Israelites.

**Interpretation.** The spies' fear of the tall Anakim is read as lack of faith. Tradition teaches that God overcame such peoples for Israel.

### Examples

- The Emim dwelt therein aforetime, a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakim; (Torah DEU.2.10, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/T/tall/#x1)
- a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakim; but the LORD destroyed them before them; and they succeeded them, and dwelt in their stead; (Torah DEU.2.21, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/T/tall/#x2)
- a people great and tall, the sons of the Anakim, whom thou knowest, and of whom thou hast heard say: 'Who can stand before the sons of Anak?' (Torah DEU.9.2, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/T/tall/#x3)
- Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation tall and of glossy skin, to a people terrible from their beginning onward; a nation that is sturdy and treadeth down, whose land the rivers divide! (Prophets ISA.18.2, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/T/tall/#x4)

### 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.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «tall» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tall/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«tall» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/tall.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «tall» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/T/tall/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«tall» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/tall.html) on Mova free.