ton
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: ball-games
cricket
darts
games
hobbies
lifestyle
snooker
sports
Etymology: Variant of tun (“cask”), influenced by Old French tonne (“ton”).
Inflected forms:
form: tons
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of various units of mass, originally notionally equal to the contents of a tun
pos: noun
gloss: Any of various units of mass, originally notionally equal to the contents of a tun
pos: noun
gloss: Any of various units of mass, originally notionally equal to the contents of a tun
pos: noun
gloss: Any of various units of volume, originally notionally equal to the contents of a tun
pos: noun
gloss: Any of various units of volume, originally notionally equal to the contents of a tun
pos: noun
gloss: Any large, excessive, or overwhelming amount of anything.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: I’ve got a ton of work to do.
I've got tons of work to do.
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
examples: Their main problem is that they somehow believe that a 12-ton unit can handle this entire building.
gloss: Synonym of hundred
pos: noun
tags: UK
colloquial
gloss: Synonym of hundred
pos: noun
tags: UK
colloquial
usually
gloss: Synonym of hundred
pos: noun
tags: UK
colloquial
gloss: Synonym of hundred
pos: noun
tags: UK
colloquial
examples: Speed along the lane / Do a ton or a ton and twenty-five
So the old Rocker gets out his bike
 To make a ton before he takes his leave.
Neil: How fast can this thing go then, do you reckon?
Simon: Well, it's the special edition, so I reckon it could probably top a ton.
Neil: Bollocks!
The HSDT team, however, had some work to do, although by the end of 1972 the power car interior had been adjusted and BR had agreed to 'double-manning' with extra pay when speeds topped the ton.
Related words: tonelada
Derived words: assay ton
asston
a ton
available ton mile
butt-ton
by the ton
crapton
cubic ton
deadweight ton
displacement ton
exaton
foot-ton
freight ton
fuckton
gigaton
gross register ton
hit like a ton of bricks
hoppus ton
kiloton
like a ton of bricks
long ton
measurement ton
megaton
metric ton
multiton
net register ton
petaton
Prussian ton
register ton
shipping ton
shitton
short ton
teraton
thanks a ton
tonload
ton-mile
ton mile
ton mileage
tonner
ton of refrigeration
ton of TNT
ton-up
weigh a ton
yottaton
zettaton
Translations:
lang: Albanian
word: ton
lang: Albanian
word: tonelatë
lang: Arabic
word: طُن
roman: ṭun
lang: Armenian
word: տոննա
roman: tonna
lang: Azerbaijani
word: ton
lang: Belarusian
word: то́на
roman: tóna
lang: Bengali
word: টন
roman: ṭon
lang: Bulgarian
word: тон
roman: ton
lang: Burmese
word: တန်
roman: tan
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 噸 /吨
roman: dūn, dùn
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 公噸 /公吨
roman: gōngdūn, gōngdùn
lang: Czech
word: tuna
lang: Danish
word: ton
lang: Dutch
word: ton
lang: Esperanto
word: tuno
lang: Estonian
word: tonn
lang: Faroese
word: tons
lang: Finnish
word: tonni
lang: French
word: tonne
lang: Georgian
word: ტონა
roman: ṭona
lang: German
word: Tonne
lang: Greek
word: τόνος
roman: tónos
lang: Hebrew
word: טוֹן
roman: ton
lang: Hebrew
word: טוֹנָה
roman: tóna
lang: Hindi
word: टन
roman: ṭan
lang: Hungarian
word: tonna
lang: Icelandic
word: tonn
lang: Ido
word: tuno
lang: Indonesian
word: ton
lang: Italian
word: tonnellata
lang: Japanese
word: トン
roman: ton
lang: Kazakh
word: тонна
roman: tonna
lang: Khmer
word: តោន
roman: taon
lang: Khmer
word: តូន
roman: toun
lang: Korean
word: 톤
roman: ton
lang: Kyrgyz
word: тонна
roman: tonna
lang: Lao
word: ຕັນ
roman: tan
lang: Lao
word: ໂຕນ
roman: tōn
lang: Latvian
word: tonna
lang: Lithuanian
word: tona
lang: Lü
word: ᦎᧃ
roman: ṫan
lang: Lü
word: ᦎᦷᧃ
roman: ṫon
lang: Macedonian
word: тон
roman: ton
lang: Malay
word: tan
lang: Mongolian
word: тонн
roman: tonn
lang: Mongolian
word: ᠲ᠋ᠣᠨ
roman: ton
lang: Norman
word: tonné
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: tonn
lang: Pashto
word: ټن
roman: ṭan
lang: Dari
word: تَن
roman: tan
lang: Iranian Persian
word: تُن
roman: ton
lang: Polish
word: tona
lang: Portuguese
word: tonelada
lang: Romanian
word: tonă
lang: Russian
word: то́нна
roman: tónna
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: то̏на
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: tȍna
lang: Sinhalese
word: ටොන්
roman: ṭon
lang: Slovak
word: tona
lang: Slovene
word: ton
lang: Spanish
word: tonelada
lang: Swahili
word: tani
lang: Swedish
word: ton
lang: Tagalog
word: tonelada
lang: Tajik
word: тонна
roman: tonna
lang: Tatar
word: тонн
roman: tonn
lang: Tatar
word: тонна
roman: tonna
lang: Thai
word: ตัน
roman: dtan
lang: Thai
word: โตน
roman: dtoon
lang: Northern Thai
word: ᨲᩢ᩠ᨶ
lang: Northern Thai
word: ᨲᩰᩫ᩠ᨶ
lang: Turkish
word: ton
lang: Turkmen
word: tonna
lang: Ukrainian
word: то́нна
roman: tónna
lang: Urdu
word: ٹَن
roman: ṭan
lang: Uyghur
word: توننا
roman: tonna
lang: Uzbek
word: tonna
lang: Vietnamese
word: tấn
lang: Yiddish
word: טאַן
roman: tan
lang: Yoruba
word: tọ́ọ̀nù
lang: Finnish
word: satanen
lang: Finnish
word: satku
lang: Finnish
word: huntti
lang: Hungarian
word: száz font