a high tree or a tall tree

#1 (**permalink**) 04-Feb-2004, 10:18

A high tree or a tall tree?

What is the diffenence between high and tall?

Thanks!!

shane · #2 (**permalink**) 04-Feb-2004, 10:37

We use tall mostly for people, trees, buildings with many floors, and a few other things which are higher than they are wide (e.g. factory chimneys).

How tall are you?
I'd like something cool to drink in a tall glass.

In measurements, we use tall for people, but we often use high for things.

I'm six feet tall.
That tree is about eighty feet high/tall (both are okay)

HTH :)

RonBee · #3 (**permalink**) 04-Feb-2004, 17:42

While they are both relative terms, I would normally think of tall as applying to the structure and high as applying to a particular point--either in space or on a structure.

:)

Tdol · #4 (**permalink**) 04-Feb-2004, 20:14

Ron, one of those doesn't work.

RonBee · #5 (**permalink**) 05-Feb-2004, 03:23

Thanks, Tdol!

(I edited that posting.)

:wink:


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