Meaning of Ton | Babel Free

Definitions

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. Initialism of threshold odor number.
   abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
4. Fashion, the current style, the vogue.
   uncountable
5. Synonym of tunny, particularly the common tunny or horse mackerel.
6. The long ton of 2240 pounds (about 1016 kg), 20 hundredweights of 112 pounds avoirdupois each.
7. Fashionable society; those in style.
   uncountable
8. The metric ton of 1000 kilograms (about 2205 lb), 10 quintals of 100 kilograms each.
9. Any of various units of volume, originally notionally equal to the contents of a tun
10. The measurement ton of (US) 40 or (UK) 42 cubic feet (about 1.1 or 1.2 m³).
11. The register ton of 100 cubic feet (about 2.83 m³).
12. Any large, excessive, or overwhelming amount of anything.
    figuratively
13. 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.
14. Synonym of hundred
    UK, colloquial
15. 100 pounds sterling.
    UK, colloquial
16. 100 points.
    UK, colloquial, usually
17. 100 runs.
    UK, colloquial
18. A speed of 100 mph.
    UK, colloquial

Equivalents

Examples

“I’ve got a ton of work to do.”

“I've got tons of work to do.”

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

“Speed along the lane / Do a ton or a ton and twenty-five”

“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.”

“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.”

“[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.”

“Pen was somewhat older than many of his fellow-students, and there was that about his style and appearance, which, as we have said, was rather haughty and impertinent, that stamped him as a man of ton—very unlike those pale students who were talking law to one another, and those ferocious dandies, in rowing shirts and astonishing pins and waistcoats, who represented the idle part of the little community.”

“He had no plans to marry. Ever. And there wasn’t much point in attending ton parties if one wasn’t looking for a wife.”

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