Definitions for ton

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Spelling: [tuhn]

IPA: /tʌn/

Ton is a 3 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 3 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 4 points.

You can make 12 anagrams from letters in ton (not).

Definitions for ton

noun

1. a unit of weight, equivalent to 2000 pounds (0.907 metric ton) avoirdupois (short ton) in the U.S. and 2240 pounds (1.016 metric tons) avoirdupois (long ton) in Great Britain.
2. Also called freight ton. a unit of volume for freight that weighs one ton, varying with the type of freight measured, as 40 cubic feet of oak timber or 20 bushels of wheat.
3. metric ton.
4. displacement ton.
5. a unit of volume used in transportation by sea, commonly equal to 40 cubic feet (1.13 cu. m) (shipping ton or measurement ton)
6. a unit of internal capacity of ships, equal to 100 cubic feet (2.83 cu. m) (register ton)
7. Often, tons. Informal. a great quantity; a lot:
8. British Informal. a speed of 100 miles per hour.
9. high fashion; stylishness.
10. the current fashion, style, or vogue.

Origin of ton

1350-1400; Middle English; variant of tun

Examples for ton

We only got a ton after all, when we should have liked a dozen or fourteen tons!

Some of the things that Jay lied about to the cops actually make a ton of sense.

We'll get more ounces to the ton out of our crushings than they ever heard of on the Rand, too.

Red squirrels cache the pinecones (saving the bears a ton of work).

Tell Gubby I think of him as much as when I weighed half a ton.

But there's a ton of value for me in my background and my history, and losing it would be a shame.

"This confounded blunderbuss must weigh a ton, I think," Loubet went on.

For those in the resource world, every ton of junk that goes into a landfill represents wasted energy.

So I went in, met Michael Bay, and did the video, and it won an MTV Video Music Award and got me a ton of work.

A ton on some other planet, where the attraction of gravity is less, does not weigh half a ton.