ton
English
Etymology 1
Variant of tun (“cask”), influenced by Old French tonne (“ton”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tʌn/
Audio (US) (file) Audio (AU) (file) - Rhymes: -ʌn
Noun
ton (plural tons)
- A unit of weight (mass) equal to 2240 pounds (a long ton) or 2000 pounds (a short ton) or 1000 kilograms (a metric ton).
- A unit of volume; register ton.
- In refrigeration and air conditioning, a unit of thermal power defined as 12,000 BTU/h (about 3.514 kW or 3024 kcal/h), originally the rate of cooling provided by uniform isothermal melting of one short ton of ice per day at 32 °F (0 °C).
- (colloquial, hyperbolic) A large amount.
- I’ve got a ton of work to do.
- I've got tons of work to do.
- (slang) A speed of 100 mph.
- (slang) One hundred pounds sterling.
- (cricket) One hundred runs.
- (darts) One hundred points.
Synonyms
- (large amount): heap, load, pile
- (one-hundred runs): century
- See also Thesaurus:lot
Derived terms
Translations
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Etymology 2
Borrowed from French ton (“manner”), from Latin tonus. Doublet of tone, tune, and tonus.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /tɔ̃/, /tɒn/
Noun
ton (uncountable)
- Fashion, the current style, the vogue.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Byron to this entry?)
- 1814 July, [Jane Austen], chapter IX, in Mansfield Park: A Novel. In Three Volumes, volume I, London: Printed for T[homas] Egerton, […], OCLC 39810224, page 191:
- A clergyman cannot be high in state or fashion. He must not head mobs, or set the ton in dress.
- Thackeray
- If our people of ton are selfish, at any rate they show they are selfish.
- Fashionable society; those in style.
Related terms
Catalan
Usage notes
The use of ton and the other possessive determiners is mostly archaic in the majority of dialects, with articulated possessive pronouns (e.g. el meu) mostly being used in their stead. However, mon, ton, and son are still widely used before certain nouns referring to family members and some affective nouns, such as amic, casa, and vida. Which nouns actually find use with the possessive determiners depends greatly on the locale.
The standard masculine plural form is tos, but tons can be found in some dialects.
Chuukese
Danish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tʌn/
- Rhymes: -ʌn
Dutch
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɔn
- IPA(key): /tɔn/
audio (file)
Noun
ton f (plural tonnen, diminutive tonnetje n)
- barrel
- ton (1000 kilograms)
- 100,000 of some monetary unit, particularly guilders
- Dat zou zeker een ton kosten.
- Dat zou zeker een ton euro kosten.
- 140.000 euro is bijna drie ton gulden
- A large amount.
- Hij leende tonnen met geld. - He borrowed large amounts of money.
Finnish
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tɔ̃/
audio (file) - Homophone: thon
Etymology 1
From Old French ton, tos, from Latin tuus, from Proto-Indo-European *towos.
Determiner
ton m
Related terms
Possessee | ||||||
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Singular | Plural | |||||
Masculine | Feminine | |||||
Possessor | Singular | First person | mon1 | ma | mes | |
Second person | ton1 | ta | tes | |||
Third person | son1 | sa | ses | |||
Plural | First person | notre | nos | |||
Second person | votre2 | vos2 | ||||
Third person | leur | leurs |
- 1 Also used before feminine adjectives and nouns beginning with a vowel or mute h.
- 2 Also used as the polite singular form.
Noun
ton m (plural tons)
Anagrams
Further reading
- “ton” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Friulian
Etymology 1
From Latin tonus, from Ancient Greek τόνος (tónos). Compare Italian tuono, Romansh tun, tung, Dalmatian tun, Romanian tun.
Related terms
Etymology 2
From Latin thunnus, from Ancient Greek θύννος (thúnnos). Compare Italian tonno.
Irish
Declension
First declension
Bare forms:
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Forms with the definite article:
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Derived terms
- aonton m (“monotone”)
- aontonach (“monotonous; monotonic”, adj)
- aontonacht f (“monotonicity”)
- hipeartonach (“hypertonic”, adj)
- hipeartonacht f (“hypertonicity”)
- iltonach (“polytonal”, adj)
- tonúil (“tonal”, adj)
Mutation
Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
ton | thon | dton |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Old Occitan
References
- von Wartburg, Walther (1928-2002), “thynnus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 131, page 318
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tɔn/
Audio (file)
Romanian
Declension
Declension
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) ton | tonul | (niște) tonuri | tonurile |
genitive/dative | (unui) ton | tonului | (unor) tonuri | tonurilor |
vocative | tonule | tonurilor |
Serbo-Croatian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tôːn/
Swedish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tɔn/
- Rhymes: -ɔn
Declension
Declension of ton | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | ton | tonnet | ton | tonnen |
Genitive | tons | tonnets | tons | tonnens |
Pronunciation
audio (file) - IPA(key): /tuːn/
- Rhymes: -uːn
Noun
ton c
Declension
Declension of ton | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | ton | tonen | toner | tonerna |
Genitive | tons | tonens | toners | tonernas |
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Ter Sami
Etymology
From Proto-Samic *tonë.
Volapük
Welsh
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tɔn/
Derived terms
Zuni
Pronoun
ton
- Second person dual subject (medial position)
- you two
- Second person plural subject (medial position)
- you (three or more)
Related terms
- to'na'
- to'n'aawan