Difference between Tall and Long

What is the difference between Tall and Long?

Tall as an adjective is (of a building, etc.) having its top a long way up; having a great vertical (and often greater than horizontal) extent; high. while Long as an adjective is having much distance from one terminating point on an object or an area to another terminating point .

Tall

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: (of a building, etc.) Having its top a long way up; having a great vertical (and often greater than horizontal) extent; high. Having a vertical extent greater than the average. For example, somebody with a height of over 6 feet would generally be considered to be tall. Hard to believe, such as a tall story or a tall tale. A cup of coffee smaller than grande, usually 8 ounces. (Chiefly American)

Example sentence: Tall men come down to my height when I hit 'em in the body.

Long

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A long vowel.A long integer variable, twice the size of an int and half of a long long. A long is typically 64 bits in a 32-bit environment.An entity with a long position in an asset.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To take a long position in.To await, to aspire, to desire greatly (something to occur or to be true)

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Having much distance from one terminating point on an object or an area to another terminating point .Having great duration.possessing or owning stocks, bonds, commodities, or financial instruments with prices positively correlated with them.of a fielding position, close to the boundary (or closer to the boundary than the equivalent short position)

Part of speech: adverb

Definition: Over a great distance in space.For a particular duration.For a long duration.

We hope you now know whether to use Tall or Long in your sentence.

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