English Explanatory Dictionary

ton

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Any of various units of mass, originally notionally equal to the contents of a tun
  2. The short ton of 2000 pounds (about 907 kg), 20 hundredweights of 100 pounds avoirdupois each.
  3. The long ton of 2240 pounds (about 1016 kg), 20 hundredweights of 112 pounds avoirdupois each.
  4. The metric ton of 1000 kilograms (about 2205 lb), 10 quintals of 100 kilograms each.
  5. Any of various units of volume, originally notionally equal to the contents of a tun
  6. The measurement ton of (US) 40 or (UK) 42 cubic feet (about 1.1 or 1.2 m³).
  7. The register ton of 100 cubic feet (about 2.83 m³).
  8. Any large, excessive, or overwhelming amount of anything.
  9. A unit of thermal power equal to 12,000 BTU/h (about 3.5 kW), approximating the idealized rate of cooling provided by uniform isothermal melting of 1 short ton of ice per day at 0°C.
  10. Synonym of hundred
  11. 100 pounds sterling.
  12. 100 points.
noun
  1. Fashion, the current style, the vogue.
  2. Fashionable society; those in style.
noun
  1. Synonym of tunny, particularly the common tunny or horse mackerel.
noun
  1. Initialism of threshold odor number.

Pronunciation

/tʌn/ en-us-ton.ogg en-au-ton.ogg /tʊn/ /tɔ̃/ /tɒn/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-ton2.wav LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-ton3.wav

Word forms

ton tons

Etymology

Variant of tun (“cask”), influenced by Old French tonne (“ton”).

Synonyms

tonne metric ton megagram shitton fuckton abundance battalion arseload assload bellyload boatload brimful busload bucketful bucketload butt-ton bumload buttload cartload crapload deal fuckload fuckwad great deal hantle heap hecatomb helluvalot horseload lashings load lot mampus many mass metric fuckton metric shitload mickle mountain muckle multiplicity multitude pile ream shedload shitful shitload sight slew spadeloads sum superflux ton trainload truckload tun vaultful wagonload ton of refrigeration refrigeration ton

Related words

tonelada bon ton haut ton pros ton kairon

Derived words

assay ton a ton available ton mile butt-ton by the ton cubic ton deadweight ton displacement ton foot-ton freight ton fuckton gross register ton hit like a ton of bricks hoppus ton like a ton of bricks long ton measurement ton metric ton net register ton Prussian ton register ton shipping ton shitton short ton thanks a ton ton mile ton-mile ton mileage ton of refrigeration ton of TNT ton-up weigh a ton tonish

Translations

Albanian: ton Albanian: tonelatë Arabic: طُن Armenian: տոննա Azerbaijani: ton Belarusian: то́на Bengali: টন Bulgarian: тон Burmese: တန် Chinese Mandarin: 噸 /吨 Chinese Mandarin: 公噸 /公吨 Czech: tuna Danish: ton Dutch: ton Esperanto: tuno Estonian: tonn Faroese: tons Finnish: tonni Finnish: satanen Finnish: satku Finnish: huntti French: tonne Georgian: ტონა German: Tonne Greek: τόνος Hebrew: טוֹן Hebrew: טוֹנָה Hindi: टन Hungarian: tonna Hungarian: száz font Icelandic: tonn Ido: tuno Indonesian: ton Italian: tonnellata Japanese: トン Kazakh: тонна Khmer: តោន Khmer: តូន Korean: 톤 Kyrgyz: тонна Lao: ຕັນ Lao: ໂຕນ Latvian: tonna Lithuanian: tona Lü: ᦎᧃ Lü: ᦎᦷᧃ Macedonian: тон Malay: tan Mongolian: тонн Mongolian: ᠲ᠋ᠣᠨ Norman: tonné
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