ton

CEFRB1

/tʌn/

noun

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A unit of weight equal to 2,000 pounds or 1,000 kilograms.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    Any of various units of mass, originally notionally equal to the contents of a tun

Examples

  • He fell for that old ad for a house like a ton of bricks.

  • The truck carried more than a ton of sand to the construction site.

At a glance

Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
5
Synonyms
5

Also pronounced

  • /tɔ̃/

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. The short ton of 2000 pounds (about 907 kg), 20 hundredweights of 100 pounds avoirdupois each.

  2. The long ton of 2240 pounds (about 1016 kg), 20 hundredweights of 112 pounds avoirdupois each.

  3. The metric ton of 1000 kilograms (about 2205 lb), 10 quintals of 100 kilograms each.

More examples

In context

  • This box weighs a ton. What's inside?

  • I’ve got a ton of work to do.

  • I've got tons of work to do.

Synonyms

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The truck can carry up to one blank of heavy sand.

Practise this properly in the app, where the word comes back before you forget it.

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Origin

noun

Variant of tun (“cask”), influenced by Old French tonne (“ton”).