Tall applies to what grows or rises high by comparison with others of its kind and usually implies relative narrowness. In a tall organizational structure, employees often lie at the bottom of a long chain of supervisors, managers, and executives. See examples of tall used in a sentence.
Definition of tall adjective in oxford advanced learner's dictionary. You use tall to ask or talk about the height of someone or something. I'm only 5ft tall, and i look younger than my age.
I am already as tall as she is. You use tall to describe things which are higher than usual, but which are also much higher than they are wide. So, for example, you talk about a tall tree or a tall chimney.
Tall (tôl), adj., -er, -est, adv. A man six feet tall.
