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ton

1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Tongan.

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

• IPA^(key): /tʌn/

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• Rhymes: -ʌn

ton (plural tons)

1. Any of various units of mass, (historical) originally notionally equal to the contents of a tun, particularly
   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, 10 quintals of 100 kilograms each.
2. Any of various units of volume, (historical) originally notionally equal to the contents of a tun, particularly
   1. The measurement ton of (US) 40 or (UK) 42 cubic feet (about 1.1 or 1.2 m³).
   2. The register ton of 100 cubic feet (about 2.83 m³).
3. (figuratively) Any large, excessive, or overwhelming amount of anything.

   I’ve got a ton of work to do.

   I've got tons of work to do.

4. (HVAC) A unit of thermal power equal to 12,000 BTU/h (about 3.5 kW), approximating the idealized rate of cooling provided by uniform isothermal melting of 1 short ton of ice per day at 0°C.
5. (slang, chiefly UK) Synonym of hundred, particularly
   1. 100 pounds sterling.
   2. (darts, snooker, etc.) 100 points.
   3. (cricket) 100 runs.
   4. A speed of 100 mph.
      • 1970, Mungo Jerry (lyrics and music), “In The Summertime”, in In The Summertime:

        Speed along the lane / Do a ton or a ton and twenty-five

      • 2008, Damon Beesley & Iain Morris, "Caravan Club", The Inbetweeners Series 1, Episode 5, E4:

        Neil: How fast can this thing go then, do you reckon?
        Simon: Well, it's the special edition, so I reckon it could probably top a ton.
        Neil: Bollocks!

      • 2021 October 6, Greg Morse, “A need for speed and the drive for 125”, in RAIL, number 941, page 50:

        The HSDT team, however, had some work to do, although by the end of 1972 the power car interior had been adjusted and BR had agreed to 'double-manning' with extra pay when speeds topped the ton.

• (traditional unit of mass equivalent to a tun): tonelada (Spanish and Portuguese contexts)
• (any hyperbolically or oppressively large amount): See Thesaurus:lot
• (slang for 100 points in darts &c.): tonne
• (slang for 100 cricket runs): century

• → Tokelauan: tone, tane

Borrowed from French ton (“manner”), from Latin tonus. Doublet of tone, tune, and tonus.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /tɔ̃/, /tɒn/

ton (uncountable)

1. Fashion, the current style, the vogue.
   • 1814 July, [Jane Austen], chapter IX, in Mansfield Park: […], volume I, London: […] 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.

   • 1857–1859, W[illiam] M[akepeace] Thackeray, The Virginians. A Tale of the Last Century, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1858–1859, OCLC 1061908157:

     If our people of ton are selfish, at any rate they show they are selfish.

2. Fashionable society; those in style.
   • 1790, Amelia Opie, Dangers of Coquetry, vol. I, ch. 13:

     [S]he thought herself incapable of being flattered by the attentions of a man she despised, because he was the reigning idol of the ton […] .

   • 1823 December 17, [Lord Byron], Don Juan. Cantos XII.—XIII.—and XIV., London: […] [C. H. Reynell] for John Hunt, […], OCLC 868008434, canto XIII(please specify the stanza number):

     The party might consist of thirty three Of highest caste—the Brahmins of the ton.

   • 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 30, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, OCLC 2057953:

     Pen was somewhat older than many of his fellow-students, and there was that about his style and appearance, which, as we have said, was rather haughty and impertinent, that stamped him as a man of ton—very unlike those pale students who were talking law to one another, and those ferocious dandies, in rowing shirts and astonishing pins and waistcoats, who represented the idle part of the little community.

• bon ton

ton (plural tons)

1. Synonym of tunny, particularly the common tunny or horse mackerel.

• NOT, NTO, Not., ONT, Ont, Ont., TNO, not, not., on't

From French thon.

ton

1. tuna

From Old Catalan ton, from Vulgar Latin *tum, reduced form of Latin tuus, tuum, from Proto-Italic *towos. Compare Occitan and French ton.

In unstressed position in Vulgar Latin tuum, tuam etc. were monosyllabic and regularly became ton, ta etc. in Catalan. When stressed they were disyllabic and became teu, tua > teua etc.

ton m (feminine ta, masculine plural tos, feminine plural tes)

1. your (singular)

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.

• teu

• “ton” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

ton

1. torch

ton

1. fur coat

• şontuq ton: short fur

From English ton, variant of tun (“cask”).

• IPA^(key): /tʌn/
• Rhymes: -ʌn

ton c or n (singular definite tonnet or tonnen, plural indefinite ton or tons, abbreviation t)

1. ton (unit of weight)

• kilo, kilogram, kg

From Middle Dutch tonne, from Medieval Latin tunna.

• IPA^(key): /tɔn/

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• Hyphenation: ton
• Rhymes: -ɔn

ton f (plural tonnen, diminutive tonnetje n)

1. barrel
2. ton (1000 kilograms)
3. 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

4. A large amount.

   Hij leende tonnen met geld. - He borrowed large amounts of money.

• karnton
• regenton
• tonnage
• waterton

• Negerhollands: ton, tono
• Petjo: tong
• → Caribbean Javanese: thong
• → Indonesian: ton

ton

1. (colloquial) genitive singular of toi
2. (colloquial) accusative singular of toi

• -nto

• IPA^(key): /tɔ̃/, (before a vowel) /tɔ̃.n‿/, /tɔ.n‿/
• (Quebec) IPA^(key): /tõ/, (before a vowel) /tõ.n‿/, /tɔ.n‿/}

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• Homophone: thon

From Old French ton, tos, from Latin tuus.

ton m (feminine ta, plural tes)

1. (possessive) your

   Tu as pensé à prendre ton livre ?

   Did you remember to bring your book?

   Ton écriture est jolie.

   Your writing is pretty.

   J'aime beaucoup ton manteau.

   I really like your coat.

Ton is used before all singular nouns beginning with a vowel or a mute H, even those that are feminine. However, ta is used with singular feminine nouns beginning with an aspirated H.

• tondit

¹ Also used before feminine adjectives and nouns beginning with a vowel or mute h.

² Also used as the polite singular form.

Borrowed from Latin tonus. Doublet of tonus, a later borrowing.

ton m (plural tons)

1. tone (sound of a particular frequency)
2. (music) tone (interval)

   Il y a un ton entre do et ré

   Doh and ray are separated by one tone.

3. tone (manner of speaking)

   Je n'aime pas le ton sur lequel tu me parles!

   I don’t like your tone! (I don’t like the way you are talking to me!)

4. tone, shade (of colour)

   Différents tons de rouge.

   Several shades of red.

• → Turkish: ton

• “ton”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• ont

From Latin tonus, from Ancient Greek τόνος (tónos). Compare Italian tuono, Romansch tun, tung, Dalmatian tun, Romanian tun.

ton m (plural tons)

1. thunder

• tonâ

From Latin thunnus, from Ancient Greek θύννος (thúnnos). Compare Italian tonno.

ton m (plural tons)

1. tuna

Ultimately borrowed from Latin tonus. Compare French ton, Italian tono.

ton m (plural tons)

1. tone

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.).

ton

1. there, over there

Borrowed from English ton.

• IPA^(key): /tón/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [táŋ]

tôn m

1. ton (unit of weight)

• IPA^(key): [ˈtɔn]
• Hyphenation: ton

From Dutch ton, from Middle Dutch tonne, from Old French [Term?], from Latin tunna, tonna, itself from a Celtic word cognate to Irish tonn (“skin”).

ton (first-person possessive tonku, second-person possessive tonmu, third-person possessive tonnya)

1. ton:
   1. tonne, metric ton: a unit of weight (mass) equal to 1000 kilograms.
   2. register ton, a unit of a ship's capacity equal to 100 cubic feet or 2.83 m³.
   3. long ton, weight ton: the avoirdupois or Imperial ton of 2,240 pounds (1,016.0469 kg).
   4. displacement ton
2. (colloquial) A thousand rupiah.

From Dutch toon, from Middle Dutch toon, ultimately from Latin tonus.

ton (first-person possessive tonku, second-person possessive tonmu, third-person possessive tonnya)

1. alternative form of tona (“tone”)

• “ton” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

ton m (genitive singular toin, nominative plural toin)

1. (biology, literature, music) tone

ton

1. Rōmaji transcription of とん

From Old English tān; equivalent to to +‎ -en (plural suffix).

ton

1. plural of to (“toe”)

• toun (Anglo-Norman)
• tun (Anglo-Norman)

From Latin tuus, tuum.

• IPA^(key): /tun/
• Rhymes: -on

ton m (feminine ta, plural tes)

1. your (second-person singular possessive)

• French: ton

ton

1. to see; to look

From Latin thunnus.

ton m (oblique plural tons, nominative singular tons, nominative plural ton)

1. tuna (fish)

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “thynnus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 13: T–Ti, page 318

Borrowed from Latin tonus, from Ancient Greek τόνος (tónos), from Proto-Hellenic *tónos, from Proto-Indo-European *tónos, from *ten-.

• IPA^(key): /tɔn/

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• Rhymes: -ɔn
• Syllabification: ton

ton m inan

1. (linguistics, music) tone

   Synonyms: barwa, brzmienie, zabarwienie

• ton in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• ton in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Borrowed from French thon.

ton m (plural toni)

1. tuna

Borrowed from French ton, from Latin tonus. Doublet of tun.

ton n (plural tonuri)

1. tone

• tonal

• IPA^(key): /tôːn/

tȏn m (Cyrillic spelling то̑н)

1. tone

From Proto-Samic *tonë.

ton

1. you (singular)

• Koponen, Eino; Ruppel, Klaas; Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008) Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎, Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

• Rhymes: -on

ton m (uncountable)

1. acopocic of tono

• “ton”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

From English ton.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɔn/
• Rhymes: -ɔn

ton n

1. tonne

From Latin tonus.

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• IPA^(key): /ˈtuːn/
• Rhymes: -uːn

ton c

1. tone (sound of a particular frequency)
2. (music) tone (interval)
3. tone (behaviour)

   att hålla god ton ― to talk politely (e.g. in a debate)

4. tone, shade (of colour)

• ton in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

• not, ont

From Proto-Samic *tonë.

ton

1. you (singular)

• Koponen, Eino; Ruppel, Klaas; Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008) Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎, Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

• IPA^(key): [ˈton]

ton

1. Alternative form of toni (“flying fish”)

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

• IPA^(key): /ton/

Borrowed from French ton.

ton (definite accusative tonu, plural tonlar)

1. tone (all senses)

Borrowed from French tonne.

ton (definite accusative tonu, plural tonlar)

1. tonne, metric ton

Borrowed from French thon.

ton (definite accusative tonu, plural tonlar)

1. tuna

   Synonym: ton balığı

ton (nominative plural tons)

1. sound

• IPA^(key): /tɔn/
• Rhymes: -ɔn

From Middle Welsh tonn, from Proto-Brythonic *tonn, from Proto-Celtic *tundā.

ton f (plural tonnau)

1. wave, billow

Middle Welsh tonn, from Proto-Celtic *tondā (“surface”), from the o-grade of Proto-Indo-European *tend- ~ *temh₁- (“to cut”).

ton m (plural tonnau)

1. ley, unploughed land

• tondir

ton

1. Second person dual subject (medial position)

   you two

2. Second person plural subject (medial position)

   you (three or more)

• to'na'
• to'n'aawan