ton

Plural: tons

Noun

• A unit of weight, typically 2,000 or 2,240 pounds.
• a United States unit of weight equivalent to 2000 pounds
• a British unit of weight equivalent to 2240 pounds
• Any of various units of mass, originally notionally equal to the contents of a tun
• The short ton of 2000 pounds (about 907 kg), 20 hundredweights of 100 pounds avoirdupois each.
• Any of various units of mass, originally notionally equal to the contents of a tun
• The long ton of 2240 pounds (about 1016 kg), 20 hundredweights of 112 pounds avoirdupois each.
• Any of various units of mass, originally notionally equal to the contents of a tun
• The metric ton of 1000 kilograms, 10 quintals of 100 kilograms each.
• Any of various units of volume, originally notionally equal to the contents of a tun
• The measurement ton of (US) 40 or (UK) 42 cubic feet (about 1.1 or 1.2 m³).
• Any of various units of volume, originally notionally equal to the contents of a tun
• The register ton of 100 cubic feet (about 2.83 m³).
• Any large, excessive, or overwhelming amount of anything.
• 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.
• Synonym of hundred, particularly
• 100 pounds sterling.
• Synonym of hundred, particularly
• 100 points.
• Synonym of hundred, particularly
• 100 runs.
• Synonym of hundred, particularly
• A speed of 100 mph.
• Fashion, the current style, the vogue.
• Fashionable society; those in style.
• Synonym of tunny, particularly the common tunny or horse mackerel.

Examples

• I've got tons of work to do.
• I’ve got a ton of work to do.
• Winning the Scrabble game felt like lifting a ton off his shoulders after a tough match.

Synonyms

gross ton, long ton, net ton, short ton, abundance, arseload, assload, bellyload, boatload, brimful, bucketful, bucketload, bumload, busload, butt-ton, buttload, cartload, century, crapload, deal, fuckload, fuckton, fuckwad, great deal, hantle, heap, hecatomb, helluvalot, horseload, lashings, load, lot, mampus, many, mass, megagram, metric fuckton, metric shitload, metric ton, mickle, mountain, muckle, multiplicity, multitude, particularly the common tunny or horse mackerel, pile, ream, shedload, shitful, shitload, shitton, slew, sum, superflux, ton, tonne, trainload, truckload, tun, tunny, vaultful, wagonload

Related Words

bon ton, haut ton, pros ton kairon, tonelada