What's the difference between outgrow and tall?

Outgrow


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To surpass in growing; to grow more than.
  • (v. t.) To grow out of or away from; to grow too large, or too aged, for; as, to outgrow clothing; to outgrow usefulness; to outgrow an infirmity.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Further management of the congenital cases was based on the experience that children outgrow this disorder; periodic dilatation may augment the natural process.
  • (2) Our findings lead us to support a conservative attitude regarding surgery, at least if only mild symptoms are present, If the patients can be satisfactorily treated medically, they seem to outgrow their symptoms in early childhood.
  • (3) Vegetative cells outgrowing from glycerol-induced myxospores were regularly pleomorphic, a condition that persisted through the first cell division.
  • (4) Small tumor fragments were transferred into culture flasks and cultured until a confluent monolayer was formed by the outgrowing cells.
  • (5) Chinese hamster V79 multicell spheroids growing in tissue culture exhibit many of the same properties as solid tumors outgrowing their blood supply, including the spontaneous development of both noncycling and hypoxic cell populations expected to be resistant to many chemotherapeutic agents.
  • (6) In the long-term experiments, with the lower TNF doses, in situ evidence of regrowth was observed (outgrowing zones in the nodules) on about the 40th day of treatment, and nodule recovery was confirmed by the resumption of DNA synthesis measured on the 50th day of treatment.
  • (7) Whereas the intramembranous particle number in glial pseudopodia is only slightly lower than in their perikaryal plasmalemma, the number of particles in outgrowing axons increases about eightfold from the periphery towards the perikaryon.
  • (8) The sequence encoding the most efficient trans-activation-responsive region did not outgrow others.
  • (9) More efficient glucose uptake enabled a mutant to outgrow its parent and caused a decrease in the steady-state glucose concentration in the chemostat.
  • (10) The outgrowing serotonergic fibers from the mesencephalic raphe graft showed a hyperinnervation pattern in the cerebellar cortex adjacent to the graft.
  • (11) Parents were the first to suspect the hearing loss in 48 cases but more often than not were told that the child would outgrow it or was too young to test.
  • (12) These findings suggest that the plasmalemma of the outgrowing nerve, and especially of the growth cone, is immature and that maturation is accompanied by the insertion of intramembranous particles.
  • (13) 146:430-432, 1981) we isolated three genes involved in Bacillus subtilis spore outgrowth by screening the library by hybridization with labeled RNA from outgrowing spores in the presence of an excess of unlabeled vegetative RNA.
  • (14) Spores of the mutant synthesized no DNA when germinated at high temperature, although an outgrowing cell appeared.
  • (15) Only the inner surface of the vitelline membrane has this growth-promoting potential, which markedly and progressively declines during incubation in ovo because of systemic factors rather than because of a direct influence by the outgrowing yolk sac-serosal membrane.
  • (16) Fluorescence immunohistochemistry revealed the presence of the integrin beta 1-chain on the outgrowing neurites.
  • (17) Major contributors to the outgrowing axon's environment are the lumbosacral (LS) somites which give rise to limb muscle cells and the LS somatopleural mesoderm which gives rise to limb connective tissues.
  • (18) Most children do outgrow their respiratory symptoms but not the susceptibility of their airways to allergens.
  • (19) In the presence of inhibitors affecting membrane potential, vegetative cells were as sensitive to chloroquine as outgrowing spores.
  • (20) These results indicate that serotonergic and dopaminergic neurons located within the mesencephalic raphe graft clearly differed from each other in their ability to extend their processes into the host cerebellum, which provides further evidence for the existence of specific interactions between outgrowing serotonergic fibers and their terminal fields (targets).

Tall


Definition:

  • (superl.) High in stature; having a considerable, or an unusual, extension upward; long and comparatively slender; having the diameter or lateral extent small in proportion to the height; as, a tall person, tree, or mast.
  • (superl.) Brave; bold; courageous.
  • (superl.) Fine; splendid; excellent; also, extravagant; excessive.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Michael Caine was his understudy for the 1959 play The Long and the Short and the Tall at the Royal Court Theatre.
  • (2) A tall young Border Police officer stopped me, his rifle cradled in his arms.
  • (3) Treatment of tall peas with the growth retardant AMO-1618 reduces growth and oxidase activity.
  • (4) I salute you.” So clear-fall logging and burning of the tallest flowering forests on the planet, with provision for the dynamiting of trees over 80 metres tall, is an ultimate good in Abbott’s book of ecological wisdom.
  • (5) The stratum superficiale consists during this phase of tall columnar cells.
  • (6) Further analysis revealed Senebkay was tall for his time at 1.78m (5ft 10in), and died at some point in his late 40s.
  • (7) Two additional studies were conducted to determine the effects of lysocellin and monensin on macromineral apparent absorption and retention in steers fed tall fescue greenchop.
  • (8) The claim has stunned a community who knew him not as a pale spectre in Taliban videos but as the tall, affable young man who served coffee and deftly fended off jokes about Billy Elliot – he did ballet along with karate, fencing, paragliding and mountain biking.
  • (9) He has such good body and he has really really good legs Butt… And he is slim tall and good skin."
  • (10) Nobody is sure what dangerous chemical imbalance this would create but the Fiver is convinced we'd all be dust come October or November, the earth scorched, with only three survivors roaming o'er the barren landscape: Govan's answer to King Lear, ranting into a hole in the ground; a mute, wild-eyed pundit, staring without blinking into a hole in the ground; and a tall, irritable figure standing in front of the pair of them, screaming in the style popularised by Klaus Kinski, demanding they take a look at his goddamn trouser arrangement, which he has balanced here on the platform of his hand for easy perusal, or to hell with them, for they are no better than pigs, worthless, spineless pigs.
  • (11) In fact, Wilson is 6ft 4ins tall, about an inch taller than Brown.
  • (12) We call for a more structured policy for tall buildings, with transparency for the public and clarity for developers.
  • (13) In those with tall R wave by ECG at baseline, who survived the 5-year follow-up, incidence of left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) by ECG criteria was 4.1% in the stepped care group and 8.6% in the referred care group (p less than 0.01).
  • (14) [In 2014 I saw two Oscars … one was this super-Olympian, very successful, who seemed totally in control and even physically tall with his prostheses.
  • (15) We have studied the effect of somatostatin analogue (SMS 201-995) given as a subcutaneous injection on the growth and growth hormone secretion in seven tall children (two male; five female).
  • (16) Maybe it will do him good to go away with England.” Such is the cyclical life of goalscorers, there are times when those fractions that can be the difference between a ball ending up nestled in the net, or agonisingly wide, or foiled by a goalkeeper that probably seems 10 feet tall, loom large.
  • (17) Preliminary reports indicate efficacy of Sandostatin in psoriasis, autonomic neuropathy (postprandial and orthostatic hypotension) and its ability to reduce height velocity in tall adolescents.
  • (18) In some areas farmers are not allowed grow tall maize – a potential source of cover for militants.
  • (19) In conclusion, high doses testosterone-treatment in excessively tall boys needs the additional care of dermatologist when mostly after a 7 months period acne begins to develop under this treatment.
  • (20) At more than 1.83m (6ft) tall and weighing more than 125kg (20 stone), Qatada is a conspicuous figure, but it still took 11 months to track him down.