ton
see also: TON
Pronunciation
TON
Noun
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see also: TON
Pronunciation
- IPA: /tʌn/
ton (plural tons)
- A unit of weight (mass) equal to 2240 pounds (a long ton) or 2000 pounds (a short ton) or 1000 kilograms (a metric ton).
- A unit of volume; register ton.
- In refrigeration and air conditioning, a unit of thermal power defined as 12,000 BTU/h#Etymology_2|h (about 3.514 kW or 3024 kcal/h), originally the rate of cooling provided by uniform isothermal melting of one short ton of ice per day at 32 °F (0 °C).
- (colloquial, hyperbole) A large amount.
- I’ve got a ton of work to do.
- I've got tons of work to do.
- (slang) A speed of 100 mph.
- (slang) One hundred pounds sterling.
- (cricket) One hundred runs.
- (darts, snooker, etc.) One hundred points scored.
- (large amount) heap, load, pile
- (one-hundred runs) century
- See also Thesaurus:lot
- French: tonne
- German: Tonne
- Italian: tonnellata
- Portuguese: tonelada
- Russian: то́нна
- Spanish: tonelada
- Italian: tonnellata
- French: tonne, flopée
- Spanish: a base de bien, a cholón, a cascoporro, a porrillo, a espuertas, a mansalva, a punta de pala, a patadas
- (British) IPA: /tɔ̃/, /tɒn/
ton (uncountable)
- Fashion, the current style, the vogue.
- 1814 July, [Jane Austen], chapter IX, in Mansfield Park: A Novel. In Three Volumes, volume I, London: Printed for T[homas] Egerton, […], OCLC 39810224 ↗, page 191 ↗:
- A clergyman cannot be high in state or fashion. He must not head mobs, or set the ton in dress.
- If our people of ton are selfish, at any rate they show they are selfish.
- Fashionable society; those in style.
ton (plural tons)
- The common tunny, or horse mackerel.
TON
Noun
ton
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