TON
\tˈʌn], \tˈʌn], \t_ˈʌ_n]\
Definitions of TON
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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The prevailing fashion or mode; vogue; as, things of ton.
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A measure of weight or quantity.
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The weight of twenty hundredweight.
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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.
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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.
By Oddity Software
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The prevailing fashion or mode; vogue; as, things of ton.
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A measure of weight or quantity.
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The weight of twenty hundredweight.
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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.
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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.
By Noah Webster.
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A measure of weight, usually twenty hundredweight; the weight of 2,240 pounds, used in Great Britain, commonly called a long ton; the weight of 2,000 pounds, used in America, often called a short ton; a unit of measurement for cargo space in ships, equal to one hundred cubic feet; as, a ship of 6,000 tons burden.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Daniel Lyons
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The prevailing fashion.
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Weight of 2240, or 2000, pounds avoirdupois; 40 cubic feet.
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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A measure of weight, either 2,000 pounds (a short ton), or 2,240 pounds (a long ton).
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A measure of 40 to 100 cubic feet. See TONNAGE.
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Tone; style; votaries of fashion.
By James Champlin Fernald
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n. [French] The prevailing fashion or mode; vogue.
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n. [Anglo-Saxon, German] The weight of twenty cwts. or 2240 pounds avoirdupois;-a wine measure of capacity equal to two pipes or 252 gallons : a tun;-in navigation, a certain weight or space, as a measure of capacity, being forty two cubic feet, by which the burden of a ship is estimated;-a certain quantity of timber, consisting of 40 solid feet if round, or 54 feet if square.
