ton
/tʌn/
Any large, excessive, or overwhelming amount of anything; Fashion, the current style, the vogue
- Plural
- tons
Bedeutungen
- 1
Any large, excessive, or overwhelming amount of anything
You have tons of friends.
Du hast jede Menge Freunde.
Tatoeba · AlanF_US · CC BY 2.0 FR
I have tons of friends.
Ich habe jede Menge Freunde.
Tatoeba · CK · CC BY 2.0 FR
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Fashion, the current style, the vogue
- 3
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 eachselten
- 4
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 eachselten
- 5
Any of various units of mass, originally notionally equal to the contents of a tun; The metric ton of 1000 kilograms (about 2205 lb), 10 quintals of 100 kilograms eachselten
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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)selten
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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)selten
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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°Cselten
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Synonym of hundred; 100 pounds sterlingselten
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Synonym of hundred; 100 pointsselten