Ton
[tʌn]
Definition
(-) pl. of Toe.
(n.) The common tunny, or house mackerel.
(n.) The prevailing fashion or mode; vogue; as, things of ton.
(n.) A measure of weight or quantity.
(n.) The weight of twenty hundredweight.
(n.) Forty cubic feet of space, being the unit of measurement of the burden, or carrying capacity, of a vessel; as a vessel of 300 tons burden.
(n.) A certain weight or quantity of merchandise, with reference to transportation as freight; as, six hundred weight of ship bread in casks, seven hundred weight in bags, eight hundred weight in bulk; ten bushels of potatoes; eight sacks, or ten barrels, of flour; forty cubic feet of rough, or fifty cubic feet of hewn, timber, etc.
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Definition
n. a measure of capacity varying with the substance measured—timber wheat gravel lime coke &c.—in the carrying capacity of ships 40 cubic feet: a measure of weight equal to 20 cwt. or 2240 lb. avoirdupois.
n. fashion style.—adj. Ton′ish stylish.—adv. Ton′ishly.
Editor: Paula
Examples
- I am sufficiently well off to keep a hundred and fifty ton steam yacht, which is at present lying at Southampton, ready to start when I wish. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- The heaviest British gun at that time was of 111-ton weight. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Capacity freight engine, ten tons net freight; cost of handling a ton of freight per mile per horse-power to be less than ordinary locomotive. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The heating furnace and oil tank are served by a sixty-ton traveling crane and forty-ton jib crane. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- We may say then that this figure represents a 100-ton silo. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- The press is served by two 200-ton cranes with hydraulic lift and pneumatic travel. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Eight chambers had been left, requiring a ton of powder each to charge them. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- I soon fell into the company of some Dutch sailors belonging to the Amboyna, of Amsterdam, a stout ship of 450 tons. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- Capacity freight engine, ten tons net freight; cost of handling a ton of freight per mile per horse-power to be less than ordinary locomotive. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- These engines weigh as much as 31 tons, which is seven times more than the weight of the Rocket. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- To this plunger is attached a weighted case filled with one or many tons of metal or other coarse material. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Light cruisers are vessels of from 1,500 to 7,500 tons, used in scouting, as commerce destroyers, etc. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Many tons of pins are made in the United States weekly, and it is said that 20,000,000 pins a day are required to meet the demand. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The steam-shovel did not discriminate, but picked up handily single pieces weighing five or six tons and loaded them on the skips with quantities of smaller lumps. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- To avoid this it is washed first in water and then immersed in a chloride of gold toning bath and fixed. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The boy drew his chubby face down to a formidable length, and commenced toning a psalm tune through his nose, with imperturbable gravity. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- It might justly be compared with a sketch which is all right as far as it goes, but which requires toning down and elaboration before becoming a finished work of art. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
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