Ton

Definition: Ton

Ton

Noun

1. A United States unit of weight equivalent to 2000 pounds.

2. A British unit of weight equivalent to 2240 pounds.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "ton" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references)

Energy

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Synonyms: Ton

Fashion

Noun: fashion, style, ton, bon ton, society; good society, polite society; monde; drawing-room, civilized life, civilization, town, beau monde, high life, court; world; fashionable world, gay world; Vanity Fair; show; (ostentation).

Gravity

Weighing, ponderation, trutination; weights; avoirdupois weight, troy weight, apothecaries' weight; grain, scruple, drachma, ounce, pound, lb, arroba, load, stone, hundredweight, cwt, ton, long ton, metric ton, quintal, carat, pennyweight, tod.

Vulgarity

Lowness, homeliness; low life, mauvais ton, rusticity; boorishness; Adjective: brutality; rowdyism, blackguardism; ribaldry; slang; (neology).

Crosswords: Ton

Albanian (key, shade, sound, ton, tone, tuna, tunny), Dutch (barrel, buoy, ton), French (key, note, pitch, thy, tone, voice, your), German (accent, atmosphere, audio, chime, clang, clay, hue, intonation, note, nuance, pip, shade, sound, stress, style, tint, tone), Romanian (accent, color, colour, key, mood, song, sound, stop, strain, timbre, tone, tune), Serbo-Croatian (key, tone), Swedish (color, colour, key, note, strain, ton, tone, tune, twang), Turkish (cast, chord, color, colour, gradation, long ton, manner, metric ton, short ton, tint, ton, tone, tonicity, tonne, value), Welsh (billow, breaker, lay-land, skin, surface, wave).

Gee, this wig weighs a ton! What dope'd wear a thing like this? (Singin' in the Rain; writing credit: Betty Comden; Adolph Green)

Here's a ton. (Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels; writing credit: Guy Ritchie)

Nobody, I don't care who they are, is doing a two ton poo outaide my front door. (The Young Ones; writing credit: Ben Elton; Rik Mayall)

) Oh, what's he going to bring back this time? Wheelbarrows? Garden statues? Ton of earth? (The Flying Gardener; writing credit: Brian Burns; Edward Burns)

The candy is supposed to make you feel all immature and stuff, but I've had a ton and I don't feel any diff-never mind. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)

Dérangera ton ciel (Humana; performing artist: Fabian)

2000 pounds of Chinese soup: Won ton. (references; author: unknown)

O Asterismos ton likon (1974)

I Diki ton dikaston (1974)

Ta Paidia ton louloudion (1973)

To sapouni sou halas! Ton arapi kai an ton plenis (1973)

Ton amour et ma jeunesse (1973)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• Bon Ton Stores, Inc.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Ton Yi Industrial Corp.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

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Books

• 3/4 Ton - TM's On 3/4 Ton Trucks) (reference)

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Periodicals

• Ton (reference)

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Theater & Movies

• The Kingsmen Quartet: Ton of Fun, Vol. 1 (reference)

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Music

• Crache Ton Venin [IMPORT] (reference)

• Two Ton Boa (reference)

• Mikro Epos Gia Ton A.R. [IMPORT] (reference)

• 4 Ton Mantis [CD-SINGLE] (reference)

• Pro Ton Pilon [IMPORT] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Poling through the sand White 1 and 1/2 ton truck Astro party of C.V. Hodgson. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Using canvas strip on sand hill White 1 and 1/2 ton truck Astro party of C.V. Hodgson. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

"Dust ruts" - White 3/4 ton truck Astro Party of C. V. Hodges. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

"Mud beneath and snow above - A bad combination for a heavy load." White 1 and 1/2 ton truck Astro party of C. V. Hodgson. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

"Nebraska sand hills - where we stripped some gears" White 1 and 1/2 ton truck Astro party of C.V. Hodgson. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

"Running through 1/2" melted hail" White 1 and 1/2 ton truck Astro party of C.V. Hodgson. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

"After drying engine, truck pulled out with no trouble" White 1 and 1/2 ton truck Astro party of C.V. Hodgson. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Crossing Little Missouri River, North Dakota White 1 and 1/2 ton truck Astro party of C.V. Hodgson. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

CAV (Construction Assistance Vehicle) could transport a ton at over 2 knots. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP).

Basalt "log" construction at Nan Madol. Each basalt log is separate column of basalt found in area of columnar jointing and weighs hundreds of pounds. Some logs appear to be sufficiently large to weigh over a ton. Credit: Small World.

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Germany recognises the right of the Allied and Associated Powers to the replacement, ton for ton (gross tonnage) and class for class, of all merchant ships and fishing boats lost or damaged owing to the war. (reference)

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Five dollars a ton.

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Business

Craftsmen use trailers as well as professional 1 to 1.5 ton vans or light trucks. (references)

This is a 33% reduction from 450 kilowatts/hour per metric ton needed, previously. (references)

Moreover, reducing one ton of waste to a 3 cubic meter bale will save on landfill space. (references)

Economic History

Denmark

The present CO2 tax is about DKK 100 per ton of CO2 emitted. (references)

Bangladesh

Imports in FY2002 are forecast at 0.5 million tons of commercial and 0.5 million ton of donation. (references)

Lebanon

The government purchases wheat from local farmers at $250 per ton in order to encourage local production. (references)

Political Economy

RUSSIA

Throughout the year, the government has adjusted export duties on crude oil and oil products to reflect changes in world oil market prices, with the duty now set at 34 euros per ton. (references)

SPAIN

Faced with the loss of the Spanish feed grain market as a result of Spain's membership in the EU, the United States negotiated an enlargement agreement with the EU in 1987, which established a 2.3 million ton annual quota for Spanish imports of corn and specified non-grain feed ingredients and sorghum from non-EU countries. (references)

Trade

Qatar

B. QR 1 (US$ 0.27) per ton per day for the next 10 days. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "ton": a ton of ♦ assay ton ♦ Bon ton ♦ by the ton ♦ cubic ton ♦ deadweight ton ♦ dial ton ♦ dialling ton ♦ do the ton ♦ English ton ♦ Foot ton ♦ freight ton ♦ gross register ton ♦ gross ton ♦ Hoppus ton ♦ in the ton ♦ long ton ♦ metric ton ♦ metric ton of uranium ♦ net ton ♦ short ton ♦ ton burden ♦ ton burthen ♦ Ton mile ♦ Ton mileage ♦ ton of oil equivalent ♦ weight a ton ♦ won ton. Additional references.

Beginning with "ton": Ton-cups, ton-kilometre, ton-mile, ton-miles, ton-up, ton-up boys.

Ending with "ton": half-ton, one-ton, ten-ton, three-ton, two-ton.

Containing "ton": Brit-ton-gant, million-ton-per-year.

Albanian

ton (key, shade, sound, tone, tuna, tunny), masë (bar, body, Gage, gauge, heft, mass, measure, measurement, populace, rate, scads, scale, size). (various references)

Arabic 

‏وحدة وزن تون, ‏طن وحدة وزن. (various references)

Bulgarian 

сто мили в час, сто лири, тон (note, shade, sound, strain, tint, tone, tuna, tuna fish, tunny). (various references)

Chinese 

噸 , 公噸 (metric ton), 吨 (tonne, tons). (various references)

Czech

tuna (tunny), tón (note, tone). (various references)

Danish

ton-mil (ton-mile), ton kilometer (ton-mile), ton (metric ton, tonne), long ton (long ton), befordret antal tons (ton conveyed, ton transported), BRT (gross register tonnage, gross registered ton, gross ton), bruttoregisterton (gross register tonnage, gross registered ton, gross ton), doedvaegtton (deadweight ton, ton burden, ton burthen), Hoppus ton (Hoppus ton), afsendt antal tons (ton forwarded, ton loaded), laesset tons (ton forwarded, ton loaded), udbudt tonkilometer (ton-kilometre provided), long-ton (long ton), metriske ton (metric ton), short ton (short ton), kubikton (cubic ton). (various references)

Dutch

ton (barrel, buoy). (various references)

Esperanto

tuno. (various references)

Faeroese

tons. (various references)

Farsi 

واحدوزنی برابربا0001کیلوگرم , تن (Body). (various references)

Finnish

tonni (metric ton). (various references)

French

tonne (tonne). (various references)

German

tonne (barrel, bin, buoy, butt, can, cask, drum, tub, tun). (various references)

Greek 

τόννοσ (tunny), τόνοσ (accent, ictus, intonation, pitch, strain, stress, tonality, tone, tuna). (various references)

Hungarian

tonna. (various references)

Italian

tonnellata (tonne). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

英噸 , 英屯 , 屯 (barracks, camp, police station). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

と�", えいと�". (various references)

Korean 

톤 (tonne, tons). (various references)

Manx

thunney (tun). (various references)

Pig Latin

ontay

Portuguese

tonelada (tonne). (various references)

Romanian

tonã, sumedenie (host), puzderie (army, cloud, drops, dust, flakes, forest, heap, host, infinite, infinity, shoal), groazã (affright, blue funk, dismay, dread, fearfulness, fright, horror, nightmare, terror), grãmadã (aheap, assemblage, batch, block, bulk, clamp, clump, cluster, cob, collection, congeries, crowd, drift, flock, heap, host, hulk, load, lump, mass, mountain, multitude, ocean, pack, Peck, pile, power, shoal, snag, stack, throng, wilderness of). (various references)

Russian 

тонна (tonne, tonnes, tons). (various references)

Scottish

tunna (a ton, a tun). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

tona, stil (chic, getup, style), dobar ukus. (various references)

Spanish

tonelada (tonne). (various references)

Swedish

ton (color, colour, key, note, strain, tone, tune, twang). (various references)

Thai

หน่วยชั่งน้ำหนักเรียกว่า ตัน มีค่าเท่ากับ 2000 ปอน�"์ (net ton). (various references)

Turkish

ton (cast, chord, color, colour, gradation, long ton, manner, metric ton, short ton, tint, tone, tonicity, tonne, value), moda (craze, fad, fancy, fashion, fashionable, go, in, in the fashion, mode, rage, style, the done thing, trendy, vogue, with it), şıklık (chic, elegance, fashionness, finery, smartness, spruceness, style, swank, trimness). (various references)

Turkmen 

tonna (r). (various references)

Ukrainian

тонна, мода (craze, fashion, style, trend, vogue), безліч (a lot of, abundance, army, array, bag, bagful, barrel, bushel, cumulus, dozens, host, infinite, lashings, legion, lots of, multitude, number, numbers, ocean, oodles, orb, orgy, pack, plenty, reams, rout, ruck, scores, shoal, shower, variety, vast, wealth, wilderness, world). (various references)

Welsh

tunnell (tun). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "ton": tonal, tonalities, tonality, tonally, tondi, tondo, tondos, tone, tonearm, tonearms, toned, toneless, tonelessly, tonelessness, tonelessnesses, toneme, tonemes, tonemic, toner, toners, tones, tonetic, tonetically, tonetics, tonette, tonettes, toney, tong, tonga, tongas, tonged, tonger, tongers, tonging, tongman, tongmen, tongs, tongue, tongued, tongueless, tonguelike, tongues, tonguing, tonguings, tonic, tonically, tonicities, tonicity, tonics, tonier, toniest. (additional references)

Words ending with "ton": antilepton, antiproton, asyndeton, automaton, badminton, baton, bellybutton, beton, boston, bouton, burton, button, canton, carton, chiton, cotton, craton, croton, crouton, cyton, cytoskeleton, dalton, demeton, disulfoton, doubleton, endoskeleton, exciton, exoskeleton, feuilleton, fronton, futon, gigaton, glutton, graviton, guncotton, halogeton, jeton, jetton, keybutton, kiloton, krypton, lepton, magneton, megaton, melton, microplankton, mirliton, misbutton, mouton, multimegaton, multiphoton. (additional references)

Words containing "ton": acetone, acetones, acetonic, acetonitrile, acetonitriles, amazonstone, amazonstones, amyotonia, amyotonias, antileptons, antiprotons, antonomasia, antonomasias, antonym, antonymic, antonymies, antonymous, antonyms, antonymy, aquatone, aquatones, architectonic, architectonically, architectonics, astonied, astonies, astonish, astonished, astonishes, astonishing, astonishingly, astonishment, astonishments, astony, astonying, asyndetons, atonable, atonal, atonalism, atonalisms, atonalist, atonalists, atonalities, atonality, atonally, atone, atoned, atonement, atonements, atoner, atoners. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Ton" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Htoon, oton, tann, taon, th, thont, tinn, tion, tmn, tn, tno, Toan, toh, toin, toj, tona, tond, tonfa, toni, tonk, Tonn, tonna, tonno, tono, tont, tonu, tonz, toon, toony, toq, toun, tpn, trn, troon, tumn, tunc, tund, tuon, twon, tyn, uton, xon. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: not.

-1 letter: no, on, to.

+1 letter: font, into, knot, nota, note, nowt, onto, snot, tone, tong, tons, tony, toon, torn, town, unto, wont.

+2 letters: atone, atony, baton, beton, biont, canto, cento, conte, conto, cotan, count, cyton, donut, fonts, fount, front, futon, ingot, intro, jeton, joint, junto, knots, knout, lento, monte, month, mount, muton, netop, niton, nitro, nonet, north, notal, notch, noted, noter, notes, notum, nowts, oaten, octan, often, onset, ontic, panto, pinot, pinto, piton, point, punto, puton, santo, seton, snoot, snort, snots, snout, steno, stone, stony, talon, tango, tanto, taxon, tenon, tenor, thong, thorn, tigon, token, tolan, toman, tonal, tondi, tondo, toned, toner, tones, toney, tonga, tongs, tonic, tonne, tonus, toons, towns, towny, toxin, toyon, trona, trone, ungot, wonts.

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