tall vs high

Definitions

adjective

1. too improbable to admit of belief
2. impressively difficult
3. lofty in style
4. great in vertical dimension; high in stature

noun

1. a garment size for a tall person

Examples

Three tall memorial archways inscribed with Chinese characters stand outside the temple.

In 2005, the Mugabe government launched what it called a slum clearance scheme, that bulldozed major shantytowns, brutally displacing hundreds of thousands of people.

Sometime in the early eighteen hundreds, they trekked to the flat plain between the Ohio River and Lake Erie and settled in Mount Vernon, which was then a few small buildings in a forest of tall trees.

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Definitions

noun

1. a public secondary school usually including grades 9 through 12
2. an air mass of higher than normal pressure
3. a lofty level or position or degree
4. a state of sustained elation
5. a forward gear with a gear ratio that gives the greatest vehicle velocity for a given engine speed

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adverb

1. at a great altitude
2. far up toward the source
3. in or to a high position, amount, or degree
4. in a rich manner

adjective

1. slightly and pleasantly intoxicated from alcohol or a drug (especially marijuana)
2. used of sounds and voices; high in pitch or frequency
3. (used of the smell of meat) smelling spoiled or tainted
4. happy and excited and energetic
5. (literal meaning) being at or having a relatively great or specific elevation or upward extension (sometimes used in combinations like `knee-high')

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Examples

So spake he, and Athene was mightily angered at heart, and chid Odysseus in wrathful words: ‘Odysseus, thou hast no more steadfast might nor any prowess, as when for nine whole years continually thou didst battle with the Trojans for high born Helen, of the white arms, and many men thou slewest in terrible warfare, and by thy device the wide-wayed city of Priam was taken.

Of all types of commercially based American music, jazz is the one that has most consistently fostered musical artistry on a high level.

There will always be debate about who deserves honours, all of it highly subjective.

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