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発音

• (英国発音)
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /tɔːl/, [tʰoːɫ]
  • (Standard Southern British) IPA: /toːl/
  • (Scotland) IPA: /tɔl/
  • (Northumbria) IPA: /taːl/
• (米国発音)}
  • (General American) IPA: /tɔl/
  • (cot–caught merger) IPA: /tɑl/
• (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA: /toːl/
• 韻: -ɔːl

形容詞

tall (comparative taller, superlative tallest)

1. (literal) Having a top that is far up (contrast: deep ('having a bottom that is far down' ).)
   1. (of a person or two-footed creature) Having great vertical extent (usually reckoned from the bottom of the feet to the very top of the head) when standing. (For instance, somebody with a height of over 6 feet would generally be deemed tall.)

      Antonym: short

      Being tall is an advantage in basketball.

      Ostriches are the tallest living birds.

      • 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter V, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:

        Then came a maid with hand-bag and shawls, and after her a tall young lady. She stood for a moment holding her skirt above the grimy steps, […] , and the light of the reflector fell full upon her.

      • 2000, Robert Bingham, Lightning on the Sun, page 34:

        He′d been packed in with all the other journos, standing out only in that he was taller than most and didn′t make as much noise.

   2. (of an inanimate thing, such as a building, hill, lamp, etc.) Having its top a long way up; having a great vertical (and often greater than horizontal) extent.

      Synonym: (less common, old-styled) high

      Antonyms: low, low-rise, short

      Tall trees, at least about 30m high.

      • 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 55:

        To him it seemed that the Bornean rainforests, the tallest on Earth, were places that had: 'remained untouched and unchanged since remote geological epochs[.]'

   3. (specialized, chiefly US, of a cup of coffee) Smaller than grande, usually 8 ounces (~ 230 ml).

      Coordinate terms: grande, venti

2. (of a story) Hard to believe, such as a tall story or a tall tale.
   • 1870, The Cornhill Magazine, volume 21, page 9:

     "That's tall talk."
     "Not an inch taller than the truth."

3. Old senses that arose before the height-related senses
   1. (obsolete) Obsequious; obedient.
   2. (obsolete) Seemly; suitable; fitting, becoming, comely; attractive, handsome.
   3. (obsolete) Bold; brave; courageous; valiant.
   4. (archaic) Fine; proper; admirable; great; excellent.

派生語

派生した語

• → Welsh: tal

名詞

tall (plural talls)

1. (possibly nonstandard) Someone or something that is tall.
   • 1912, George Francis Atkinson, Botany for High Schools, Henry Holt and Company:

     But in the second generation of hybrids (from seed of the first) talls and dwarfs were both present, and in the proportion of twelve talls to four dwarfs.

   • 2009, Arianne Cohen, The Tall Book: A Celebration of Life from on High, page 197:

     The industries that best accommodate talls are those that have faced personal injury lawsuits.

   • 2018 June 5, Chris Robinson, “Fremantle Dockers defender Alex Pearce faces fitness test on injured ankle”, in The West Australian‎:

     Fremantle remains unsure about the status a pair of key talls ahead of a defining clash with Adelaide at Optus Stadium.

2. A clothing size for taller people.

   Do you have this in a tall?

3. A tall serving of a drink, especially one from Starbucks, which contains 12 ounces.

参照

• “tall”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.