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ton

noun
/tʌn//tɔ̃/UK

Etymology

Borrowed from French ton (“manner”), from Latin tonus. Doublet of tone, tune, and tonus.

  1. derived from tonus
  2. borrowed from ton

Definitions

  1. Any of various units of mass, originally notionally equal to the contents of a tun

  2. Any of various units of volume, originally notionally equal to the contents of a tun

  3. Any large, excessive, or overwhelming amount of anything.

    • I’ve got a ton of work to do.
    • I've got tons of work to do.
  4. ›+ 6 more definitions

    1. A unit of thermal power equal to 12,000 BTU/h (about 3.5 kW), approximating the idealized…

      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.

      • Their main problem is that they somehow believe that a 12-ton unit can handle this entire building.

    2. Synonym of hundred

    3. Fashion, the current style, the vogue.

      • 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.

    4. Fashionable society

      Fashionable society; those in style.

      • [S]he thought herself incapable of being flattered by the attentions of a man she despised, because he was the reigning idol of the ton […].
      • The party might consist of thirty three Of highest caste—the Brahmins of the ton.

    5. Synonym of tunny, particularly the common tunny or horse mackerel.

    6. Initialism of threshold odor number.

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Derived

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

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for ton. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA