ton

Etymology 1
Variant of, influenced by.

Noun

 * 1) Any of various units of mass, originally notionally equal to the contents of a tun, particularly:
 * 2) The short ton of 2000 pounds (about 907 kg), 20 hundredweights of 100 pounds avoirdupois each.
 * 3) The long ton of 2240 pounds (about 1016 kg), 20 hundredweights of 112 pounds avoirdupois each.
 * 4) The metric ton of 1000 kilograms, 10 quintals of 100 kilograms each.
 * 5) Any of various units of volume, originally notionally equal to the contents of a tun, particularly:
 * 6) The measurement ton of  40 or  42 cubic feet (about 1.1 or 1.2 m³).
 * 7) The register ton of 100 cubic feet (about 2.83 m³).
 * 8)  Any large, excessive, or overwhelming amount of anything.
 * 9)  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.
 * , particularly
 * 1) 100 pounds sterling.
 * 2)  100 points.
 * 3)  100 runs.
 * 4) A speed of 100 mph.
 * 1) 100 pounds sterling.
 * 2)  100 points.
 * 3)  100 runs.
 * 4) A speed of 100 mph.
 * 1) A speed of 100 mph.
 * 1) A speed of 100 mph.

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: طُن ( أَطْنَان)
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Belarusian: то́на
 * Bengali:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: tuno
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese: tons
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian: ტონა
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Kazakh: тонна
 * Khmer: ,
 * Korean:
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Lao: ຕັນ, ໂຕນ
 * Latvian: tonna
 * Lithuanian:
 * Lü: ᦎᧃ, ᦎᦷᧃ
 * Macedonian: тон
 * Malay:
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Mongolian: ᠲ᠋ᠣᠨ
 * Norman: tonné
 * Northern Thai: ᨲᩢ᩠ᨶ, ᨲᩰᩫ᩠ᨶ
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: tonn
 * Pashto: ټن
 * Persian:
 * Dari:
 * Iranian Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: то̏на
 * Roman:
 * Sinhalese: ටොන්
 * Slovak: tona
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: tani
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: tonelada
 * Tajik: тонна
 * Tatar: тонн, тонна
 * Thai:, โตน
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: tonna
 * Ukrainian:
 * Urdu:
 * Uyghur: توننا
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese:
 * Yiddish: טאַן
 * Yoruba: tọ́ọ̀nù


 * Finnish: läjäpäin
 * French: ,
 * Hungarian:, (egy) rakás, (egy) halom, egy csomó
 * Russian:
 * Spanish: a base de bien,, , a porrillo, a espuertas, , a punta de pala, a patadas
 * Swedish:, tonvis
 * Tagalog: tone-tonelada


 * Finnish:
 * Hungarian: száz mérföld per óra, óránként száz mérföld(-es sebesség)


 * Finnish:, ,
 * Hungarian: száz font

Etymology 2
Borrowed from, from. .

Noun

 * 1) Fashion, the current style, the vogue.
 * 2) Fashionable society; those in style.
 * 1) Fashionable society; those in style.
 * 1) Fashionable society; those in style.

Noun

 * , particularly the common tunny or horse mackerel.

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) tuna

Etymology 1
, from, reduced form of , from. Compare 🇨🇬.

In unstressed position in Vulgar Latin etc. were monosyllabic and regularly became  etc. in Catalan. When stressed they were disyllabic and became, >  etc.

Determiner

 * 1) your (singular)

Usage notes


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

Noun

 * 1) torch

Noun

 * 1) fur coat

Derived terms

 * ton: short fur

Etymology
From, variant of.

Noun

 * 1)  unit of weight

Etymology
From, from.

Noun

 * 1) barrel
 * 2)  1000 kilograms
 * 3) 100,000 of some monetary unit, particularly guilders
 * Dat zou zeker een ton kosten.
 * Dat zou zeker een ton euro kosten.
 * 140.000 euro is bijna drie ton gulden
 * 1) A large amount.
 * Hij leende tonnen met geld. - He borrowed large amounts of money.

Etymology
..

Determiner

 * 1) your

Etymology 1
,, from.

Determiner

 * 1)  your

Usage notes
Ton is used before all singular nouns beginning with a vowel or a mute H, even those that are feminine. However, ta is used with singular feminine nouns beginning with an aspirated H.

Etymology 2
., a later borrowing.

Noun

 * 1) tone sound of a particular frequency
 * 2)  tone
 * 3) tone manner of speaking
 * 4) tone, shade of colour
 * 1) tone, shade of colour
 * 1) tone, shade of colour

Etymology 1
From, from. Compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬,, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) thunder

Etymology 2
From, from. Compare 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) tuna

Etymology 3
Ultimately borrowed from. Compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) tone

Etymology
.

Adverb

 * 1)  there, over there

Usage notes

 * Used anaphorically

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) tuna

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1)  unit of weight

Etymology 1
From, from , from , from , itself from a word cognate to 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) tonne, metric ton: a unit of weight (mass) equal to 1000 kilograms.
 * 2) register ton, a unit of a ship's capacity equal to 100 cubic feet or 2.83 m3.
 * 3) long ton, weight ton: the avoirdupois or Imperial ton of 2,240 pounds (1,016.0469 kg).
 * 4) displacement ton
 * 5)  A thousand.
 * 1)  A thousand.

Etymology 2
From, from , ultimately from.

Noun

 * 1)  tone

Etymology
.

Verb

 * 1) to turn

Etymology
From ; equivalent to.

Etymology
From.

Determiner

 * 1) your (second-person singular possessive)

Etymology
. Cognate of 🇨🇬.

Verb

 * 1) to see
 * 2) to look

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) tuna (fish)

Etymology
, from, from , from , from.

Noun

 * 1)  tone

Etymology 1
.

Noun

 * 1) tuna

Etymology 2
, from. Doublet of.

Noun

 * 1) tone

Noun

 * 1) tone

Etymology
From.

Pronoun

 * 1) you singular

Etymology 1
From.

Noun

 * 1) tonne

Etymology 2
From.

Noun

 * 1) tone (sound of a particular frequency)
 * 2)  tone (interval)
 * 3) tone (behaviour)
 * 4) tone, shade of colour
 * 1) tone, shade of colour

Etymology
From.

Pronoun

 * 1) you (singular)

Etymology 1
.

Noun

 * 1) tone (all senses)

Etymology 2
.

Noun

 * 1) tonne, metric ton

Etymology 3
.

Noun

 * 1) tuna

Noun

 * 1) sound

Etymology 1
From, from , from.

Noun

 * 1) wave, billow

Etymology 2
, from, from the o-grade of ~.

Noun

 * 1) lea, unploughed land
 * 2) skin, rind, crust

Pronoun

 * 1) Second person dual subject
 * you two
 * 1) Second person plural subject
 * you (three or more)