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TON
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A British unit of weight equivalent to 2240 pounds
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Hypernyms ("ton" is a kind of...):
avoirdupois unit (any of the units of the avoirdupois system of weights)
Meronyms (parts of "ton"):
cwt; hundredweight; long hundredweight (a British unit of weight equivalent to 112 pounds)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A United States unit of weight equivalent to 2000 pounds
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Hypernyms ("ton" is a kind of...):
avoirdupois unit (any of the units of the avoirdupois system of weights)
Meronyms (parts of "ton"):
cental; centner; cwt; hundredweight; quintal; short hundredweight (a United States unit of weight equivalent to 100 pounds)
Holonyms ("ton" is a part of...):
kiloton (one thousand tons)
Context examples:
Making it cheaper to do so could help the global community remove the 100 billion to 1 trillion tons of carbon necessary to avoid catastrophic global warming by mid-century.
(Scientists Turn CO2 into Solid Coal, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Around 26 million tons of peppers were grown commercially around the world in 2007.
(Grafting helps pepper plants deal with drought, SciDev.Net)
According to their calculations, 360 leaves, each 1.7 meters long and 0.2 meters wide, would produce close to a half-ton of carbon monoxide per day that could be used as the basis for synthetic fuels.
(Artificial Leaves Convert CO2 to Fuel 10 Times More Efficient Than Nature, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
U.S. residents generate 1.6 million tons of household hazardous waste per year.
(Hazardous Waste, Environmental Protection Agency)
As he told me, the Ghost is an eighty-ton schooner of a remarkably fine model.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
It was almost as if the sound sprang up at the rising of his hand, just as the music of a great orchestra seems to leap under the bâton of the conductor.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Our experience is that for such large objects typically between 20 and 40 percent of the original mass, of 8.5 tons, will survive re-entry and then could be found on the ground, theoretically, he said.
(Scientists Track Chinese Space Station as It Falls to Earth, VOA)
The researchers found that in 2000, just over 162 million tons of pesticides were sold in Brazil.
(Pesticides blamed for rise in colon cancer deaths, SciDev.Net)
I soon fell into the company of some Dutch sailors belonging to the Amboyna, of Amsterdam, a stout ship of 450 tons.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
The water crisis currently facing the Central-West could be aggravated by the loss in the cerrado coverage, and the emission of greenhouse gases would reach 8.5 billion tons of carbon dioxide.
(Species native to Brazil savanna likely to face extinction, Agência Brasil)
