tall vs small vs short
Definitions
adjective
- too improbable to admit of belief
- impressively difficult
- lofty in style
- great in vertical dimension; high in stature
noun
- 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.
Definitions
adjective
- relatively moderate, limited, or small
- (of children and animals) young, immature
- have fine or very small constituent particles
- not large but sufficient in size or amount
- low or inferior in station or quality
noun
- the slender part of the back
- a garment size for a small person
adverb
- on a small scale
Examples
Someone who really wanted to stop unsanctioned immigration would begin here, by busting the small contractors who employ these workers on a contingent basis.
A few fields have the remains of small sunken stone dwellings, intimate as those at Skara Brae.
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.
