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Translingual

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ton

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Tongan.

English

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Etymology 1

Variant of tun (“cask”), influenced by Old French tonne (“ton”).

Pronunciation

Noun

ton (plural tons)

  1. Any of various units of mass, originally notionally equal to the contents of a tun, particularly:
    1. The short ton of 2000 pounds (about 907 kg), 20 hundredweights of 100 pounds avoirdupois each.
    2. The long ton of 2240 pounds (about 1016 kg), 20 hundredweights of 112 pounds avoirdupois each.
    3. The metric ton of 1000 kilograms, 10 quintals of 100 kilograms each.
    Synonyms: tonne, metric ton, megagram
  2. Any of various units of volume, originally notionally equal to the contents of a tun, particularly:
    1. The measurement ton of (US) 40 or (UK) 42 cubic feet (about 1.1 or 1.2 m³).
    2. The register ton of 100 cubic feet (about 2.83 m³).
  3. (figuratively) Any large, excessive, or overwhelming amount of anything.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:lot
    I’ve got a ton of work to do.
    I've got tons of work to do.
  4. (HVAC) 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.
  5. (colloquial, chiefly UK) Synonym of hundred, particularly
    1. 100 pounds sterling.
    2. (darts, snooker, etc.) 100 points.
      Synonym: tonne
    3. (cricket) 100 runs.
      Synonym: century
    4. A speed of 100 mph.
      • 1970, Mungo Jerry, “In The Summertime”, in In The Summertime:
        Speed along the lane / Do a ton or a ton and twenty-five
      • 2008, Damon Beesley, Iain Morris, “Caravan Club”, in The Inbetweeners, Series 1, Episode 5, E4:
        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!
      • 2021 October 6, Greg Morse, “A need for speed and the drive for 125”, in RAIL, number 941, page 50:
        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.
Derived terms
Descendants
  • → Tokelauan: tone, tane
Translations

Etymology 2

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

Pronunciation

Noun

ton (uncountable)

  1. Fashion, the current style, the vogue.
  2. Fashionable society; those in style.
    • 1790, Amelia Opie, chapter 13, in Dangers of Coquetry, volume I:
      [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 […] .
    • 1823 December 17, [Lord Byron], Don Juan. Cantos XII.—XIII.—and XIV., London: […] [C. H. Reynell] for John Hunt, […], →OCLC, canto XIII, (please specify the stanza number):
      The party might consist of thirty three Of highest caste—the Brahmins of the ton.
    • 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 30, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume I, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849, →OCLC:
      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.
Derived terms

Etymology 3

Noun

ton (plural tons)

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

See also

Anagrams

Antillean Creole

Etymology

From French thon.

Noun

ton

  1. tuna

Catalan

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Catalan ton, from Vulgar Latin *tum, reduced form of Latin tuum, from Proto-Italic *towos. Compare Occitan and French ton.

In unstressed position in Vulgar Latin tuum, tuam etc. were monosyllabic and regularly became ton, ta etc. in Catalan. When stressed they were disyllabic and became teu, tua > teua etc.

Pronunciation

Determiner

ton m (feminine ta, masculine plural tos, feminine plural tes)

  1. your (singular)
Usage notes
  • The use of ton and the other possessive determiners is mostly archaic in the majority of dialects, with articulated possessive pronouns (e.g. el meu) mostly being used in their stead. However, mon, ton, and son are still widely used before certain nouns referring to family members and some affective nouns, such as amic, casa, and vida. Which nouns actually find use with the possessive determiners depends greatly on the locale.

The standard masculine plural form is tos, but tons can be found in some dialects.

See also

References

  • “ton” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

Verb

ton

  1. inflection of tondre:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Chuukese

Noun

ton

  1. torch

Crimean Tatar

Noun

ton (accusative [please provide], plural [please provide])

  1. fur coat

Derived terms

Danish

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Etymology

From English ton, variant of tun (“cask”).

Pronunciation

Noun

ton c or n (singular definite tonnet or tonnen, plural indefinite ton or tons, abbreviation t)

  1. tonne, metric ton (unit of weight, equivalent to 1000 kilograms)

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Dutch

Finnish

Franco-Provençal

French

Friulian

Fula

Haitian Creole

Hausa

Indonesian

Irish

Jamaican Creole

Japanese

Middle English

Old English

Old French

Old Javanese

Old Occitan

Polish

Romanian

Serbo-Croatian

Skolt Sami

Sora

Spanish

Swedish

Ter Sami

Ternate

Turkish

Volapük

Welsh

Zuni

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